Monday - This
week I will have a substitute while I am away with the 6th
grade at Camp Cispus. Today I will be here though.
I think we will put our discussion
of what is life or living until I get back from Cispus so
that today I can review SCAN-n-RUN for
students to start learning about plants as we prepare to
HP Technology for Teaching grant project that our math and
science teachers wrote last year. This project will lead
students through a study of botany as we take pictures of
plants to identify them and create our own online field guide.
We will start with Ch 9,
section 1, page 242 of our Glencoe Life Science, 2002, textbook.
Once we are done SCANning section 1, we will review how to
take outline notes.
By Friday students
will compete in a poster
contest where students will create 8 1/2" X 11" posters.
They need to be hand drawn but I might accept computer generated
posters that students create at home. The class will then
vote on the best posters after I make the first set of selections
when I return from Camp Cispus. The winners will be used
on the online field guide that we
A plant classification
poster (p. 246)
Vascular plants vs. Nonvascular plants
Seeds Vascular vs. Seedless Vascular
Nonvascular plants poster
Seeds Vascular plants poster
Seedles Vascular plants poster
HW - None, unless your child
did not finish his or her paper airplane lab. That was all
due today for those who had it for homework but I will accept
it as late as Monday, Sept 24. Please encourage your child
to finish this as soon as possible. If your child says that
he or she did it all in class and gets a low grade please
make an appointment to talk with me and your child. Let's
nip that in the bud before your child falls too far behind.
Tuesday - Continue
learning about plants for our botany project by SCANning and taking outline
notes of Ch 9, sections 1, 2, and 3.
HW - Same as Monday
Wednesday - Same
HW - Same
Thursday - Same
HW - Same
Friday - Create
the posters today!
HW - Same