Thursday, March 24, 2016

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.

Monday, March 21, 2016

We're Going on Two Field Trips in April!



7th 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 19th 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 22nd -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 7th 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.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

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.

Monday, March 7, 2016

Rock your Socks!


Student Government will again be sponsoring Rock Your Socks Day.  The purpose of the day is to promote Down Syndrome Awareness.

Rock Your Socks Day will be held on March 21st.

Socks will be for sale starting next Monday, March 14th.  Socks will cost $1.00.  Last year we sold out, so encourage your students to buy their pair early.

Here is a link to the flyer below.

http://dsadelaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2016.RockYourSocks.3.21.pdf


Here is a link to educational tools.

http://dsadelaware.org/resources/educational-toolkit/

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Week of March 8th-12th

Gasoline stations sell you gas by volume. Could you get more gas mass by paying in the early morning hours when it is cooler or paying in the afternoon when it is hotter? Does it matter since the tanks are underground? Does temperature effect density? Why does hot air rise? Tell me your thoughts in the comments below.
READING MADNESS! Has started. Please have your student fill out this form on a weekly basis. Each week your total pages read goes towards a vote also. http://tinyurl.com/m499umm

CHECK HAC
                                               
Looking ahead 
See Below

3/7 Graduated Cylinder practice- Calculating the density of irregular objects

3/8 Using Density to make predictions- Floating or Sinking?

3/9 Calculating the mass from the density.

3/10 Calculating the density of the mystery objects- Density as a identification tool

3/11  Finding the density of Air- Mylar Balloon Race?