| Welcome to the 08-09 school year! See assignment explanations below.
GRADES NOTES (8/27/08):
All families should now be able to access their grades via Family Access.
Remember, if you have any trouble with logging in, please check to see if
you've confused a letter 'I' for a number '1', or the same with zero and
letter 'o'.
For now, students only access is through parent's access. Please allow
students to look at their grades using parents' login. Note, however, that
sharing the login and password with students allows them to pull up
information on their siblings as well. For now, you may choose to just log in
with your child,or you can share your login so they can have their own access.
By the way, grades with an asterisk mean the student is either excused or I'm
only crediting for those who are done, without discrediting those who did
something else.
Below are the assignments that have been assigned - most recent at the top of
the list:
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Assignment 8 (due Tuesday or Wednesday ~ 10/7):
History and Science of Measurements
Read pages 34-36.
1. Describe why figure 2-2 is included. Answer the question in fig 2-2.
2. Answer the Skill Builder Question and add 2 additional measurements
to their list.
Read Pages 38-45
3. Complete Rows 1, 2, 4, and 5 of the measurement summary worksheet.
Start with length, Volume, Mass, and Area.
4. Answer Question in figure 2-4
5. Do p. 40 problems 1 and 2. Show work. (not 5 step probs)
6. Answer Question in figure 2-6 (Show Work).
7. Do Questions 1-3 on p. 45.
8. Do the “Using Math” problem on p. 45
9. Record the English and metric measurement units from 5 products from
your home.
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Assignment 7: Students Evaluation and Goal Sheets (due 10/3)
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Assignment 6: Article Review wind power (due 10/3)
Science in the News: How to report on an Article
1. Read Article. What area of science is your article connected to?
(Identify where your topic might sit on the Tree of Knowledge.)
2. State the Title, Date and Author (write a proper citation using
format below – pay attention to capitalization and punctuation!)
Last name, First name (year, month day). Title of article (capitalize
first word only). Title of magazine, volume and page numbers.
3. Describe the one or two main ideas of the article, and give two or
three supporting ideas for each main idea. (If you have only one
main idea, give three supporting ideas.). Use complete sentences.
4. Why is this topic important to society? (2-3 sentences)
5. Write two to three interesting questions that someone might ask about
this article. These questions should be ones that are either
interesting to you or somehow important for society.
6. Give three key words you could use to search for more information on
these questions (like in a google search.)
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Assignment 5: Electriciticy and Circuits:
• Read Pages 600 through 606.
1. Sketch the plug and probe combination that gives a current reading
from the portable solar panels.
2. Make a table to record the maximum current and voltage in the sun vs
in the shade. Describe which measurement, volts or amps, changes the
most and as you move from sun to shade.
3. As you read, define the seven Vocabulary Words. To make your
definition even better, include a simple drawing for each word, and
label the parts of your drawing.
4. Answer question on page 602, figure 21-9.
5. Answer the last two questions in the yellow box on page 604 about
stove tops.
6. Show the sample calculation on p. 606 in our 5 step format.
7. Do Problems 1, 3, and Skill Builder on bottom of p. 606. Show 5
steps on calculations
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Assignments 4 (part 1) and 5 (part 2): This activity is about helping
students understtand their own brain and style of learning.
Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning Styles
Part 1.
Inkblot Test with summary sentence about your patterns, and a sentence
about your thoughts about your patterns
Part 2:
A) V-A-K questionnaire (Pick two best answers for 2 of the 12 questions.)
B) Brain / Body Reaction Time Tests
- Record data in a table with Title, Labels, and Units
- Answer the 4 Questions
- Rank yourself amongst your classmates in each cue type (visual,
auditory, and kinesthetic).
C) Conclusions:
1. Summarize your V-A-K result for the 12 questions.
2. State your results (class rankings) and summarize your findings from
the reaction time tests.
3. State weather the questionnaire and reaction-time tests say the same
things about you, or if the results don’t agree at all.
4. Use these results, along with your own intuition, to make a final
statement about how much you think you are a visual, auditory, or
kinesthetic learner.
5. What are the top two reasons why someone might say that these
reaction time tests might not be very reliable?
Follow up questions
6. In Part 2 where you did the experiment with reaction times: What was
your manipulated variable, and what were the three settings for your
this variable?
7. What was your responding variable?
8. What were some variables that you controlled?
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Assignment 3)
This week our science class has done an experiment with dirt from our new MMS
field. Students should complete the writing assignment below for this
experiment and be ready to give it to me by Tuesday (9/16). It should be
neatly written or typed.
3)Dirt Lab
Your paper should have the following 5 Headings:
- Research Question
- How will we do it (Procedure)?
- What will we need (Materials)?
- What measurements will we make and record (Data Section)?
(make a table and record your data, show how you get your final answers)
- Conclusions and Analysis
1. State your results, one dirt at a time. Compare your table’s results
with the class average.
2. List the manipulated variable, the responding variable, and at least two
controlled variables in this experiment.
3. Based on absorption of water, which kind of dirt is the new MMS field
dirt most like?
4. Make a prediction about how each soil type could be useful in making
Marshall’s new track and field.
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Assignment 2)
Planner Scavenger Hunt Work Sheet (Due Tuesday 9/9)
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Assignment 1) Letter of Introduction (Due Tuesday 9/9)
Please write me a letter of introduction. Include the following information
about who you are as a student, and who you are as a person.
** You as a student: (2 or more paragraphs)
• What are your favorite subjects?
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• If you were not at Marshall, where did you go to school last year?
• How did you do last year as a student?
- How were your grades?
- How well and how much did you learn?
• Tell me about any stuff that made learning difficult last year.
• Tell me a few of your learning-related goals for this year.
• Tell me about some of the important things I can do this year to help you
learn.
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(students who have me for math and science should do this sectioned off part
(above) for each subject - a paragraph for math and a separate one for science.)
• Anything else you want me to know about you as a learner.
**You as a Person: (1 or more paragraphs)
• Tell me some interesting things about your family.
• Tell me about some favorite places you’ve travelled.
• Tell me what your best skills are and what you most like to do for fun.
• Tell me about anything else you feel I could know to help me know what
makes you different from other people.
Just so I know, do you have internet access at home so you can see assignments
and check grades? Do your parents have internet access and email accounts?
This letter can be hand written (if you write very neatly) or word processed.
It is your first assignment, and will be graded on neatness, completeness,
and whether or not it’s turned in on time.
Thanks,
Mr. Cunningham
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