This year SImpson has opened up CRCT review sessions in every grade level, and open to all students.
Morning sessions will begin at 8:00 and end at 8:50. Afternoon sessions will go from 4:15 - 5:15.
Below are the attachments for the dates and topics being offered for review. We are encouraging all students to attend. Let's not just pass the CRCT let's srtive to exceed!
Periods 1 & 2 Exam on Friday March 27th
Monday students completed directed reading for pages 668 - 673. This section covered comets, meteorites and asteroids. Students should study this review for 15 - 20 minutes tonight.
Tuesday students will compare and contrast the three topics from yesterday. We will begin reviewing for the exam on Friday. Students should begin extra credit study guides at home and bring to class on Wednesday for a group activity.
Wednesday Study guides due in class. Bring Textbook
Thursday is Honor roll luncheon and awards ceremonies. Science will be a review session for exam.
Friday Exam.
Periods 3 & 4 Exam on Friday March 27th
Students worked in class on models today. We are hoing to hang the last of the gas giants by Wednesday!
Monday homework is to read 668-673. Tuesday we will discuss the comets, asteroids and meteorites. A scale will be determined for these objects in our model solar system. Extra credit study guides will need to be brought to class completed on Wednesday for a class assignment.
Thursday is award ceremonies and honor roll luncheon. We will be having a review session in class that day.
Friday - Exam
http://www.earthexplore.com/bioverview.html
http://www.solstation.com/stars/asteroid.htm Asteroid information
The Simpson Shuffle Run/Walk and Health Fair will be held on Friday, March 27, 4:30-6:30 PM. Registration forms for the run/walk can be found at the front office and on the Simpson web site www.cobbk12.org/~simpson. Proceeds will support the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life which raises funds to fight cancer. Please join us! Together we can make a difference.
We have begun exploring the planets. Students have viewed a trip through the solar system via a laser disc! Ask them about what they learned about technology!
Part one of our standard talks about relating the nature of science to the progression of theories like geocentrism and heliocentrism. We took this one step further discussing technology and its impact on science knowledge and discovery.
Students will be comparing and contrasting the planets in terms of size relative to Earth, relative distance from the sun, surface and atmospheric features, and the ability to support life.
We began a chart for comparissons and will begin working on a brochure project later this week.
Check back for a time table and rubric!
TEXTBOOKS ARE AT SCHOOL THIS WEEK. Moon data collection is the only homework.
We will be having an Exam on Thursday March 5th. Students are required to study at least 15 minutes each night this week to begin preparing. The topics, sections and pages are listed below.
Heating Chapter 15-2 pages 454-455 (Heating Lab, convection,conduction,radiation)
Winds Chapter 15-3 pages 458 - 462 (Global and local, Winds chart and questions)
Weather Chapter 16-1 pages 482-486 (Water in the air and humidity)
Air Masses and Fronts Chapter 16-2 pages 490 - 495 (USA map of air and chart of fronts)
Storms Chpater 16-3 pages 496- 502 (Chart of causes and definitions)
Climate Chapter 17-1 pages 518-524 (Will cover this week)
AC classes will have a few additional pages and vocabulary words that will be posted later today.
Students, we will not be doing corrections in the same manner as before. Any extra credit study guides will be due on March 4th for review.
Monday - Test Postpone. Reading tonight text pg 454-457
Complete vocabulary: Thermal conduction, convection, radiation, green house effect, global warming, due in class on Tuesday. Bring Colored pencils and yellow book every day.
Tuesday - Illustration of heating. Tonight read 458-463.
Complete vocabulary words found on page 458 as well as land breeze and sea breeze.
Wednesday - Local winds diagram for homework. Review every night for 15 minutes minimum.
Thursday - Unequal heating lab
Friday - Vocabulary Quiz - Study guide in class activity.
Monday - Test Postpone. Reading tonight text pg 454-455
Complete vocabulary: Thermal conduction, convection, radiation, due in class on Tuesday.
Bring Colored pencils and yellow book every day.
Tuesday - Illustration of heating. Tonight read 458-463.
Complete vocabulary words found on page 458 as well as land breeze and sea breeze.
Wednesday - Local winds diagram for homework. Review every night for 15 minutes minimum.
Thursday - Unequal heating lab
Friday - Vocabulary Quiz - Study guide in class activity.
Students are working in class today on their Never Ending book. Students must have the cover completed by Monday. They will get a rubric in class on Monday with the guidelines for completion and due date. TONIGHT - FRIDAY- Read text page 309 -
Vocabulary words are: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, percolation and runoff.
Homework: Assigned on Thursday and Due on Monday - Text page 438 # 1,3,5,6, 8, 9, 13, 18
Next week - TEXTBOOKS STAY HOME.
Monday: Read pages 316 - 318 for homework tonight. Rubric for Never Ending book is attached. This book is due on Wednesday. Quiz on Friday will cover the water cycle, and landforms formed by water. (Alluvial fan, delta, flood plain caves and sink holes.)
Tuesday : Read textbook pages 320 - 321 and 324- 325. BOOK is due Wednesday.
We will not have a quiz on Tuesday 1/20/09. Instead we will give an exam on 1/22/09. It will cover:
Ocean topography- Be able to identify and label the features of the ocean floor.
Currents - Text pages 416-423
Waves- Text pages 426-431
