Wear Blue 4-8-16

Wear Blue-Child Abuse is Preventable!

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.

On Friday, April 8, 2016, wear blue to school to show your support.

Great Schools Clean Streams

Great Schools Clean Streams 2016 is Now Open Check out the latest results... http://www.greatschoolscleanstreams.org/pledge-map Pledge through April 21 to help your school earn cash prizes! The 2016 Great Schools Clean Streams pledge drive is officially underway! Pledge to "can your grease" and assign your pledge to the New Castle County school of your choice.  Take the Pledge For the 2016 campaign, New Castle County will work together with local schools and PTAs to award $8,000 in cash prizes: First Prize: $1,500 for the top public/charter charter school and $1500 for the top private school Second Prize: $1,000 for the 2nd place public/charter school and $1,000 for the 2nd place private school Third Prize: $500 for the 3rd place public/charter school and $500 for the 3rd place private school Honorable Mentions: $200 each for the next 10 best performing schools, regardless of category Click the image above to watch a short video that explains what the campaign is all about! Great Schools Clean Streams is a clean water public awareness campaign The county runs the campaign each year to urge residents to dispose of used cooking fats, oils, and grease responsibly. Local families should "can the grease" and put it in the trash instead of down the drain. The county's goal with this campaign is to prevent clogged sewers from overflowing and polluting local waterways.  Take the Pledge Why Take the Pledge? Do Your Part for Your School The schools that collect the most pledges will win cash prizes. They can use the funds for school supplies, student projects, field trips, or any other educational purpose.  Do Your Part for Streams Keeping cooking fats, oils, and grease out of the sewer system keeps pollution out of our local waterways -- so you can enjoy the cleaner water with your family! It's just that simple.  Every Little Bit Makes a Difference! Imagine three of these tanker trucks of grease NOT going into the sewer system or local waterways. That's happened last year when almost 2,500 residents pledged to can their grease instead of pouring it down the drain.  Save Money on Plumber Bills Calling the plumber is an expensive hassle. Stop clogged plumbing before it starts by pouring used cooking oils and grease into a can instead of down the drain.  Take the Pledge Share Tweet Forward to Friend Pin

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Week of 4-4-16

State Testing Starts

4/5 ELA Clasroom Activity and ELA CAT

4/6 ELA PT part 1

4/7 ELA PT part 2

4/8 Math Classroom Activity and Math CAT

4/11 Math PT

(SMI- May 4th, SRI May 5th, Social Studies DCAS- May 25th)

In Science

NO HOMEWORK- Testing!

4/4 Blue Pages are due. Properties of Water Reading

4/5 Periodic Table Project start http://webelements.com/

Period 2&3

4/6 Periodic Table Project start http://webelements.com/

Period 1&4

4/7 Periodic Table Project Finish http://webelements.com/

Period 2&3

4/8 Periodic Table Project Finish http://webelements.com/

Period 4&1

Our Class Periodic Table

NAME:_________________

Purpose

To research an elements on the periodic table and create

a neat, colorful, and creative 8.5’ x 11’ poster on colored

paper that highlights the following information:

• Symbol (lettering must be 11 cm high, minimum)

• Name of element (lettering must be 2 cm high,

minimum)

• Atomic number (lettering must be 2 cm high,

minimum)

• Uses (lettering must be 1 cm high, minimum; be

creative!)

• Fast facts (see grading rubric, Figure 2, for details)

• Anything else that will add innovation, creativity, and

uniqueness to your poster

Materials and resources

• Internet

• Crayons/markers/colored pencils/paints

• Fast facts sheet on which to complete this assignment

Helpful information

Use the website www.webelements.com.

You will need to navigate to the element page, and use “Essential data”, “history”, and “Electron Shell Properties”

Do you have?

• Symbol (11 cm high, minimum)

 _____/10 points

• Name of element (2 cm high, minimum)

_____/10 points

• Atomic number (2 cm high, minimum)

 _____/10points

• Uses (1 cm high, minimum)

 _____/10points

Top Left Corner- Schematic Representation of the shell Structure _______/10points

• Required fast facts:

 _____/10points

Atomic number

Atomic weight

Group in periodic table

Group name

Period in Periodic Table

Block in Periodic Table

Standard state

Color

Origin of name

Discovered by

Discovered at

Date discovered

• Legible _____/10 points

• Colorful _____/10points

• Creative _____/10points

• On time _____/10points

Grade: _____/100 points

4/11-4/15- Preparation for our Field Trips.

We're Going on Two Field Trips in April!

7^th Grade Families,

                I am writing this post in addition to handing the permission slips to help aid you in your inquiry about the field trips we will be taking and what I still need to make these two trips successful. Here are basic details..

Air Mobility Command Museum at the Dover Air Force Base.- https://youtu.be/aQdf7XHnkjY

April 19^th 9am-12:30pm (9-10 travel, 10-11:30 Museum Tour, 11:30-12:30 travel)

Cost $8.00

Lunch- We should be back within time to eat lunch at school at 12:40pm

Purpose: Investigate STEM careers in the area of Aeronautics

Winterthur Museum and Gardens- https://youtu.be/etbrJJDz79o

April 22^nd -9:10am- 2:00pm

Cost $9.00

Lunch- Please bring a bagged lunch we will be eating at Winterthur

Purpose: Two Programs- “Discover the Science of Museum Collections” and “Ritual and Revolution: The importance of Tea”

What I still need:

Money: Trip cost has been reduced thanks to the school’s PTO. Cash and Check is accepted. Check is preferred. Check(s) will need to be made payable to “Brandywine Springs School”. Please use the memo line to indicate that it is for 7^th Grade Field Trips.  You can make out one check and pay off both field trips. ($17.00)

Chaperones: I need 7 parent chaperones for each trip. It will be a first come, first served. If you are interested please e-mail me peter.kelly@redclay.k12.de.us  your interest and in the subject line please indicate “AMC” for Air Mobility Command, or “Winterthur” for the Winterthur trip. If you would like to do both that is fine, but there might not be enough room for you. Please indicate a preference.

Paperwork: Field trip forms have two sides. Please make sure that you fill out the form and please DO NOT CUT THE FORM IN HALF.  Please consider saving this letter to have to add to your Calendar.

Week of 3-21

Homework(class work)- blue pages due April 4th.

3/21 readings -Deadly Density and Airheads. Time to work on blue pages and finish PFD presentations

3/22 Create thermoscopes. Measuring temperature by degree -reading. Just a load of Hot Air Reading

3/23 Heating a Cooling in engineering pages. Reading- Density creates currents, Transatlatic pipeline. Blue page time

3/24 Chromatography and reading- Separation Science at the FBI.

Week of 3-11

Homework 
Density Quiz Friday 3-18 https://quizlet.com/_8modi
Density Puzzle Due Friday 3-18 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B25ig_rf42WyMTl4S3RXU2FpRVE


3-14 Electronic Density- https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/density-and-buoyancy/density_en.html

3-15 Big review Density Puzzle

3-16 Increase your Volume to Decrease your density
https://youtu.be/FfD_nGhg9sU

3/17 Review and Readings

3/18 Quiz and Readings.

Popcorn Kernels