Agenda Friday December 15

1 Turn in Penny Lab WS
2 Test CH5

Tonight is the Combustion Comparison Demonstration at 5:30.  Dress warmly?  It was 60 degrees at my house last night but it is colder here down the hill.  That gives us an inversion layer and we are now on, I believe, our 8th consecutive spare the air day.

Here is a short video of the hydrogen plus oxygen balloon.

It was great to see all of the Sunnyvale SUNN Swim Team out for the demonstration.  Thanks again to Mr. Lestiko and Mr. Realini for their expertise and support.

Agenda Thursday December 14

1 Activity Penny Lab 2 or Hydrogen Bonding Lab or How many drops can you get on a penny lab.  It has many names.

the totals were
P2 88
P3 said there is no way to get 88
P4 121
P5 251 (a spirited competition here)
P6 150

Agenda Wednesday December 13

1 Activity Day 2 Comparing the Strength of Ionic and Covalent Bonds
2 WS Ionic and Covalent Review due Friday 12/15
3 J61 Polar Molecules
4 J62 Hydrogen Bonds

Aiming at Fri. Dec. 15 for CH5 Test
Make up Test Day Thurs. Dec. 14 after school
Combustion Demonstration Fri. Dec. 15.  5:30 PM

Agenda Tuesday December 12

1 Check WS Covalent Bonds
2 Activity Day 1 Comparing the Strength of Ionic and Covalent Bonds

Agenda Monday December 11

1 Check WS Ionic Bonds and CH5 Marking the Text
2 J57 Poly Atomic Ions
3 J58 Covalent Bonds
4 J59 Metallic Bonds
5 J60 Alloys
6 WS Covalent Bonds due tomorrow 12/12

Agenda Friday, December 8

1 Check Activity and WS from yesterday
2 CH5 Marking the Text due today
3 WS Ionic Bonding Practice check on Monday 12/11
4 HW CH5 Directed Reading p89-104. Do all Target Reading Skills due Fri. 12/15

I notice quite a few students are absent.  Some on trips and some sick.  Remember that is you are gone on a trip, you should get make up work before or after the trip.  If you are sick, get well.

The make up test yesterday went pretty well.  There weren't as many students as had signed up.  Next make up day will probably be on Thursday 12/14 after school.

There is a tutoring session today at brunch for those who wish to get a higher score on the Alien Periodic Table Test

Agenda Thursday December 7

76th Anniversary of the Surprise Attack on Pearl Harbor or as Mad Eye Moody said "Constant Vigilance".
1 Activity Bond With a Classmate due Friday 12/8
2 WS Lewis Structure due Friday 12/8
3 Vocabulary and Constructing Meaning due due Friday 12/15

Agenda Wednesday December 6

1 J55 Types of Bonds
2 J56 Ionic Bonds

Agenda Tuesday December 5

1 J52 CH5 Vocabulary
2 J53 CH5 Constructing Meaning
due dates forthcoming
J54 Lewis Dot Structures

Agenda Monday December 4

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Agenda Friday December 1

1 Test CH4.5 Radioactivity
Check work if time otherwise check all the stuff that was due today on Monday

Agenda Thursday November 30

1 Activity Half Life of Pennyium due today
Make up test day had to be moved to next Thursday, Dec. 7 after school.

Agenda Wednesday November 29

1 WS Video The Eyes of Nye Nuclear Energy due today

Agenda Tuesday November 28

1 Radiation Demo (P2 and3)
2 WS Isotopes Models and Half Life due Fri. Dec. 1

Agenda Monday November 27

1 Journal 49 Half Life (and how it relates to Sparta)
2 Journal 50 Radioactive Decay (particles)
3 Radiation Demo (for P4,5,and 6)
Make Up Test Day is Thursday after school
Radioactivity Test is Thursday or Friday this week.

Agenda Tuesday November 21

1 J47 History of Radioactivity
2 J48 Isotopes
3 CH4.5 Marking the Text due today
4 HW Directed Reading Ch4.5 p83-87 due Friday, Dec. 1

Be Safe for Thanksgiving.

Agenda Monday November 20

1 Check HW, Vocabulary, Constructing Meaning, WS Placing Elements, and WS Family Ties.
2 J47 History of Radioactivity
3 Trade and Grade Test Alien periodic Table
Aiming at Make up test day as Thursday, Nov. 30 afterschool.

Agenda Friday November 17

1 Test CH4.3 and 4.4 Alien Periodic Table
2 Check HW, Vocabulary, etc if time.  If not then the due date is moved to Monday, Nov. 20

Here is a question.  One balloon is filled with a mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen.  Another balloon is filled to the same size with a mixture of Methane (natural gas) and Oxygen.  Which will make a bigger explosion?  The comparison might tell you which works better at driving the motor of a car.  Hmmm.  Maybe we should add a balloon of Gasoline vapor and Oxygen.  Hmmm.

Agenda Thursday November 16

1 Activity Reactivity of Metals Lab (including Magnesium!)

Agenda Wednesday November 15 The 42nd Anniversary of my first date with my wife!

1 J46 Reactivity of Gases Demo
air, helium, oxygen, and hydrogen

It turns out there is such a thing as too much sushi.  Still, it was good.  We use Kazoo's on the corner of Winchester and Hamilton.

Agenda Tuesday, November 14

1 WS Family Ties due Fri, Nov 17

Agenda Monday, November 13

1 New Seats and a new trimester
2 J40 Alkaline Earth Metals
3 J41 Transition Metals
4 J42 Lanthanides and Actinides
5 J43 Halogens
6 J44 Noble Gases
7 J45 Semi Metals
8 WS Placing Elements due Fri Nov 17

Agenda Friday, November 10 Veteran's Day (observed)

Agenda Thursday November 9

1 Agenda, Journal, Rules, and Procedures check
2 J38 Hydrogen
3 J39 Alkali Metals
4 J40 Alkaline Earth Metals

Colored pencils or other coloring equipment needed on Monday

Agenda Wednesday, November 8

Whew.  My wife was excused from jury duty.  It was a murder trial.  Whew.
1 J36 CH4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 Vocabulary due Fri. Nov 17
2 J37 CH4.3, 4.4, and 4.5 Constructing Meaning due Fri. Nov 17
3 Activity Periodic Table Battleship (from an idea forwarded to me by Mr. Aho)

Agenda Tuesday November 7

1 HW CH4.3 and 4.4 Directed Reading p73-82  Target Reading only p79 due Fri. Nov. 17
2 Marking the Text Ch4.3 and 4.4 due today
Colored pencils or markers or crayons are needed starting tomorrow for activities related to the periodic table of elements.
Aiming at Thursday, November 16 for Test on CH4.3 and 4.4 - The Periodic Table
I was aiming at a test on Tuesday, Nov 21 for the last bit, CH4.5, on radioactivity but we will see how the beginning of next week goes since I now have a chemistry lab I want to insert.
The drill went well yesterday.  We are the safest place on campus and only someone with lots of time (which Sunnyvale Public Safety assures us won't happen) could get to us.  We can evacuate the building in less than a minute and a half at a walk which was good to know.  Now we just need the key to the janitor's closet and some velcro.

Agenda Monday November 6

1 J35 Element Project Research finish poster and turn in paper
Tomorrow the school is doing a Lock Down during p2.  Science Dept is going to try an experiment in evacuation during p3.  Let's see how it goes.
Aiming at Test CH4.3 and 4.4 on Wed. 11/16 or Thur. 11/17
Aiming at Test CH4.5 on Tues. 11/21

Agenda Friday November 3

1 J35 Element Project Research with Art Project Poster

Agenda Thursday, November 2

1 J35 Element Project Research with filling out paper

Agenda Wednesday, November 1

1 J35 Element Project Rough Draft Day 1 Research
This is an in class project but additional art supplies may be brought from home.
The paper for this project will be due On Monday, Nov 6
The poster for this project will be due on Tuesday, Nov 7
Make up Test Day Tuesday, November 7 After school

Agenda Tuesday October 31 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation

500 years ago, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences on the door of of the Wittenberg Cathedral.  A sort of "ding dong ditch".  Other previous reformers had been burned at the stake so it probably wasn't a good idea to stick (get it) around.
1 Chemical Reaction Demonstration: Pumpkin Pop
2 Test CH4.1 and 4.2

This is a video of our early practice.

Agenda Monday October 30

1 Check WS Bohr Model HW and WS Name that Element/ Calculating
2 Record scores for:  HW CH4.1 and 4.2; J31 CH 4 Vocabulary; J32 CH4 Constructing Meaning; WS The Atom; WS Bohr Model HW; and WS Name that Element/ Calculating
3 Practice for test with Protons, neutrons, and Electrons
4 Halloween Candy collection

Agenda Friday October 27

1 Moved due dates to Monday
2 WS Bohr Model Homework due Mon Oct 30
3 WS Name that Element/ Calculating Protons, Neutrons, Electrons due Mon Oct 30
4 Aiming at Test on 10/31 on section 1 and 2 from CH4

Agenda Thursday, October 26

1 J33 Atomic History
2 J34 Bohr Model
3 WS The Atom/Parts of an Atom due Fri. Oct 27

Agenda Wednesday, October 25

1 J31 CH4.1 and 4.2 Vocabulary due Friday, Oct 27
2 J32 CH4.1 and 4.2 Constructing Meaning due Friday, Oct 27

Agenda Tuesday October 24

1 Check J30 CH4 Pre Reading
2 HW CH4.1 and 4.2 Directed Reading p65-72 No Target Reading.  due Fri Oct 27
3 CH4 Marking the Text due today.

Agenda Monday October 23

1 Trade and Grade CH3 Test
2 Check:Hw Ch3; J24 CH3 Vocab.; J25 CH3 Constructing Meaning; Activity Gas Law Observations; WS States of Matter/ Phases; WS States of Matter/ Models
3 CH4 Pre Test
4 J30 CH4 Pre Reading due Tuesday, Oct 24

Agenda Friday October 20

1 Test Chapter 3

Agenda Thursday Oct 19

1 CFA Gas Laws
2 Boyle's Law Activity with syringe and balloon
3 WS Gas Laws due Monday

Agenda Wednesday October 18

1 Stamp Act Balloon and Can record score on Mon. Oct 23
2 Finish J29 Gay-Lussac's Law
3 WS States of Matter/Models due Mon. Oct. 23
4 WS States of Matter/ Phase Change due Mon. Oct. 23

Also reviewed Code Red Lockdown

Agenda Tuesday October 17

1 Activities, Balloon in a Flask and Collapsing Can due tomorrow

Agenda Monday October 16

Teacher Inservice or Dental Surgery without Anesthetic.

A better use of time would have been to spend an hour talking to high school science teachers to give them a heads up on NGSS and what to expect and not expect from our students in the future.

Agenda Friday October 13

1 Activity Simply Sublime Lab due Tuesday Oct 17

I have delayed entering this because I wanted to upload a video I took of part of the activity.  Since the video is so large, my phone will not send it to my email.  Still trying and no, I will not use the cloud.

Agenda Thursday Oct 12 I Love Backfires

Backfires are fires that firefighters set to consume an area that a wild fire is presumed to be heading towards.  The backfire denies fuel to the wild fire creating a fire break.  They require skill in setting so they, themselves, do not turn into a wildfire.  The firefighters at Bennett Mountain did a good job with their backfire last night and my Santa Rosa home is safe at this time.

1 Journal   Mixtures Review with Sentence Frame
2 Return Work
3 J26 Change of States
4 J27 Temperature and Volume Change Charles' Law
5 J28 Pressure and Volume Change Boyle's Law
6 J29 Temperature and Pressure Change Gay-Lussac's Law

I got to tour the new addition to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital last night.  More on that tomorrow.

Agenda Wednesday October 11

Our house is still standing but we are not quite out of danger.  We could really use the rain storm we had last year at this time.
1 HW CH3 Directed Reading p49-64 All Target Reading and Marking the Text due Mon., Oct. 23
2 J24 CH3 Vocabulary due Mon., Oct. 23
3 J25 CH3 Constructing Meaning  due Mon., Oct. 23
4 CH3 Marking the Text Section 1 due today
5 Aiming at CH3 Test on Fri., Oct. 20

Agenda Tueday Oct 10

1 J23 CH3 Pre Reading
2 Check Grades
3 Sign up for Make ups
4 Make Up Test Day is Thursday 10/12 Afterschool

Agenda Monday October 9

I cannot seem to get photos off my texts to show you what it looks like in Santa Rosa.  Suffice to say that those clouds are not fog.  Everyone we know in the area is, so far, safe.
1 Test CH2

Agenda Friday October 6

1 Check: HW CH2 Directed Reading; CH2 Vocabulary; CH2 Constructing Meaning; Act. Heterogeneous to Homogeneous; Activity Sticky Situation; and Act. Where's the Evidence.
2 Turn in Exothermic Endothermic Lab
Test on Monday

Agenda Thursday, October 5

1 Make certain you have turned in Sticky Situation and Where's the Evidence.
2 Activity Endothermic versus Exothermic Reactions
3 J22 Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions (if time)

Agenda Wednesday October 4

1 Review Where's the Evidence Day 1
2 Activity Where's the Evidence Day 2 due today
3 Make up Test day will be Thursday, October 12 After school
4 Turn in Sticky Situation Activity.

Agenda Tuesday October 3

1 A Sticky Situation Lab Review and Turn in
2 Act. Where's the Evidence Day 1

Agenda Monday October 2

1 Check Marking the Text CH2
2 J21 Compunds
3 Activity A Sticky Situation Lab
4 CH2 Test Mon Oct 9

Agenda Friday September 29

1 Test Ch1 Scientific Method, Investigation, and Experimentation.

Stanford Football tomorrow.  Educator Appreciation Day.  I sure hope the seats get into the shade quickly.

Agenda Thursday September 28

1 Check J17 CH2 Pre Reading
2 Activity Heterogeneous to Homogeneous mixtures
3 Make up test day today after school
4 CH1 Test on Scientific Method etc tomorrow

Here is a puzzle.  If I bought an iPod and it is now non updateable (obsolete) and they didn't tell me that it would be non updatetable when I bought it, should I get my money back?  How is it that I can still use an record player but not a more current working device?
Here is a not dissimilar puzzle.  Student testing is done by computer so that the students are given harder questions as they get more correct.  As a result, test scores are flattening.  "Experts" are saying that in order for students to improve on the tests, they will need to be taught in a different manner, that we may need to redo they way we teach teachers to teach, and that teachers with 20 years experience may not be able to teach students in the ways they need to be taught to do better on the tests.  [an aside is that I noticed there was no mention of removing the high stakes testing].  So when I got my credential, I wasn't told I would be nonupdateable.

Agenda Wednesday September 27

1 J16 Characteristics of Matter
2 J17 CH2 Pre Reading due Thurs 9/28
3 j18 CH2 Vocabulary due Fri 10/6
4 J19 CH2 Constructing Meaning due Fri 10/6
5 HW CH2 Directed Reading p39-48 No Target Reading due Fri 10/6
6 CH2 Marking the Text due Mon 10/2
J20 Mixtures

CH1 Test on Fri

Agenda Tuesday September 26

1 Check and record 9 assignments:
2 Collect Density of Regular and Irregular Solids and Practicing Density on the back
3 Collect Activity Measuring Temperature
4 Test CH1 Scientific Method, Investigation, Experimentation on Friday Sept 29

Agenda Monday September 25

1 Trade and Grade CH1 Measurement Test

Agenda Friday September 22 Autumnal Equinox

There is a definite chill in the air in the Santa Cruz Mountains (where I live).
1 Test CH 1 Measurement

The district has still not correctly sorted the standards for our computer system so it will be much longer that expected to get our grades done.  Once the district has done their job, I will have over 6000 data points to enter so don't throw anything away.  This will take awhile unless we are given coverage to accomplish this task.

Agenda Thursday September 21 The Eve of Autumn

1 Activity (a great one for Fall, I might add) The Measuring Temperature Lab also known as The Dry Ice Lab.  the Worksheet for this lab including the graph will be due on Monday.

Chapter 1 Measurement Test is tomorrow.

Today is:
World Peace Day 
Alzheimers Day
Pecan Cookie Day
The beginning of Rosh Hashana
Nat'l Farm Safety for Kids Day
World Gratitude Day
Pause the World Day
and my favorite
Miniature Golf Day

Agenda Wednesday September 20

1 J15 Measuring Temperature
2 Activity Using Fire

Aiming at the second Temperature Activity tomorrow so please, once again, tie back your hair if it is long and try to wear long pants.

Still Aiming at Friday for the CH1 Measurement Test

Agenda Tuesday September 19

1 J14 Measuring Time
2 Activity Measuring Time or Galileo's Marbles

We are doing an activity tomorrow and Thursday that involves fire.  For safety, please tie back your hair and wear long pants.  Thanks

Agenda Monday September 18

Today is a teacher inservice day.  A very interesting irony between the morning and afternoon sessions
Also, today was a good day to shadow at another school.  Do not miss a school day when there are inservice days you can use.

Agenda Friday Sept 8 to Friday September 15

I missed some school days last week and fell out of the rhythm.  This should catch me up.
Friday September 8
1 J11 Measuring Mass

2 Finish liquid /volume
3 Use a triple beam balance.
4 WS Metric Mania Mass due Wed Sept 13
 5 WS Measuring Mass Practice due Wed Sept 13

Monday Sept 11
1 WS Video Bill Nye Measurement due today
2 WS Converting/Precision due today

Tuesday Sept 12
1 WS Video Bill Nye Architecture due today
2 WS Bar Graph/ A Day in the Lab due today

Wednesday Sept 13
1 J12 Densiy
2 J13 Don't Eat  the Marshmallow

Thursday Sept 14
1 Act Measuring Density
2 WS Determining Density

Agenda September 7, Thursday

Journal 10 Measuring Volume of Irregular Solids
Activity Measuring Volume of Irregular Solids
Activity Using Different Tools to Measure Volume
NOTICE:  All the HW Packet, Vocabulary, Constructing Meaning, and Marking the Text Assignments have had the due date moved to Friday, September 15.

Agenda September 6 Wednesday Back to School Night

1 Journal 8 Volume of Regular Solids
2 Activity Measuring the Volume of Regular Solids due today
3 Journal 9 Measuring Volume using beakers, flasks, and graduated cylinders
4 Journal 10 Volume of Irregular Solids (if time)

Back to school Night:
Read this article:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/21839/dont-eat-marshmallow
then
Watch this video about Don't Eat the Marshmallow
https://www.ted.com/talks/joachim_de_posada_says_don_t_eat_the_marshmallow_yet

Three assignments for parents
1 Keep them healthy.  If they miss school they will miss out and fall behind.  Make up work is not the same.  No really, it isn't
2 Keep them here.  No trips during school.  See number 1 for reasons.
3 Give them food and a place to work at home.  The brain runs on burning the food we eat.  They are growing and need a lot of good nutritious food (not junk food).  A consistent place to work makes the brain engage more readily.  I could tell you stories.

Agenda September 5 Tuesday

1 Check WS Metric Mania Length and WS Length Lab
2 Activity: Metric Measuring Length

With one hurricane gone and one on the way it is a great time to be a meteorologist (it might not be a good time to be along the coast of the Southeastern U.S.).  I was working with my brother in law (the meteorologist) this weekend to set up a weather station in Santa Rosa.  If we ever get the station and the computer to talk to each other and patch up their differences, I will post info about this station.  Maybe even a web cam.  If I can get the Santa Rosa Station going, I have a perfect location for a SMS station.

Agenda September 4 Monday Labor Day

I hope you stayed cool.

Agenda September 1, Friday

The Friday of Labor Day Weekend.  In "Ye Olde Olden Tymes" this was the last Friday of Summer Vacation.  Now, we have been in school for half a month.  And since we got out for Summer Vacation half way through June, Summer Vacation is only 8 weeks.  Ah.  Modern Tymes.

1 Check (this means 'stamp for completeness') WS Metric Mania Metric Conversion and Units of Length
2 Journal 7 Length
3 WS Metric Mania Length due Tuesday, September 5
4 WS Length Lab due Tuesday, September 5

Agenda August 31 Thursday

1 Journal 6 Metric Conversion
2 WS Metric Mania Metric Conversion due Friday, September 1
3 WS Units of Length due Friday, September 1

It will be REALLY hot tomorrow.

Agenda August 30 Wednesday

1 Journal 3 Instructions/Rubric for Marking the Text
2 Journal 4 CH1 Vocabulary due Fri., Sept. 8
3 Journal 5 CH1 Constructing Meaning due Fri., Sept. 8
4 Check CH1 Pre Reading (moved from yesterday to today)
For the next 5 days, the temperature is predicted to be over 100 with over 110 in some areas.  Please be careful if you drive through the Santa Cruz Mountains.  Just one careless act could cause a major fire.

Agenda Tuesday August 29

1 Hide and Defend of Run. Hide, Defend
2 Check CH1 Pre Reading
3 CH 1 Marking the Text due Fri Sept 8
4 CH 1 HW Packet due Fri Sept 8

Agenda Monday August 28

1 Run of Run, Hide, Defend
2 Journal 1 10,000 Hours
3 Journal 2 Pre Reading Instructions and CH1 Pre Reading (due Tues., Aug. 29)

Agenda Friday August 25

1 Collect Procedure Quiz
2 Activity Mystery Tube

Agenda Thursday August 25

1 Test Solar Eclipse
2 Correct and Repair Procedures Quiz.  If you couldn't finish the repair in class, do it for homework and turn it in tomorrow.

Agenda Wednesday August 23

1 Collect Green Rules Sheet signed
2 Procedure Quiz (in class portion)

Agenda Tuesday August 22 Ok. Now let's start school

Well there is one more eclipse related video to show.

1 WS National Geographic Sun Earth Moon due today
2 Review Bill Nye and Marking the Text assignments
3 Code Red Practice (Run if time)

Class Rules are due signed tomorrow
Procedures Quiz tomorrow

Agenda Monday August 21 Great American Solar Eclipse Day

I had the opportunity to travel to Weiser, Idaho to see a total eclipse of the sun.  I made the plans 2 and a half months ago.  There is no font, size of print, or adjective to describe what a sight this is.  If you ever have the opportunity (the next one in the U.S. is 2024.  Look it up),  go.

All but period 2
1 WS Bill Nye Video The Moon due today
2 Activity Marking the Text Scientists observing animals during eclipse. due today

Agenda Friday August 18

1 Solar Eclipse Activity Day 2 turn in assignment

Agenda August 17

1 Solar Eclipse Activity Day 1

Agenda August 16

1 Weird Week
2 Rules (due signed Wed. August 23)
3 Procedures (if time) Procedure Quiz aiming at Wed. August 23

Agenda May and June

Agenda May 10

1 Stamp video WS's if time.
2 Activity: How Birds Fly/Paper Airplane Lab due today

All grades are up to date so check your work habits grades again
Make up test day will be Thursday after school again.
CH11 Test will be Thursday, May 11.

Next week is triathlon week.

Agenda May 9 Tuesday

1 WS Video Bill Nye Flight  (stamp on Wed)
2 WS Video Bill Nye Pressure (stamp on Wed)

Agenda May 8 Monday

1 Practice CAASPP Science Test - 22 questions of sciencey fun.

Agenda May 5 Fri

Check

Agenda May (the) 4th

I wore my BB-8 shirt made for me by my daughter.

1 Activity Sink and Spill
2 if time CAASPP practice.

Agenda May 3 Wednesday

1 J98 CH11 Pre Reading due Fri., May 5
2 HW CH11 Directed Reading due Fri May 12
3 J99 Ch11 Vocabulary due Fri. May 12
4 J100 CH11 Constructing Meaning due Fri. May 12
5 CH11 marking the Text due Fri. May 12
6 WS Video Bill Nye Buoyancy
7 Aiming at May 12 for CH11 Test

Last day for missing work for the year is May 26

Agenda May 1 and 2 Block Schedule

1 Check CH10 Homework, Vocabulary, Constructing Meaning, WS Disney Newton's 3 Laws, WS Disney Friction, WS Newton's 2nd Law, Activity Motion Stations, and Activity Friction vs Weight (shoes)
2 Test CH10
3 J98 CH11 Pre Reading if time

May 2 was buy one get one free at Chipotle for Teachers.  I got extra chips too.
There are 27 school days left so the pace will be brisk for the remainder of the year.

Check PowerSchool since I updated the grades over the weekend.

Agenda April 27 and 28 Block Schedule

1 Video Imagineering Friction
2 Activity Weight of Shoes related to Friction
3 WS review Newton's Second Law
4 Return Work.

Race Day on Friday

Agenda April 26

1 CH10 HW, Vocabulary, and Constructing Meaning due date has been moved to May 1/2 (block schedule)
2 Activity Motion Stations Day 2 check today
3 WS Newton's 2nd Law Practice check/stamp today

Still aiming ant May 1/2 Monday/Tuesday for CH10 Test

Agenda April 24 and 25 Block Schedule days

1 Check J95 CH10 Pre Reading
2 Check CH10 Marking the Text (using a random number generator hehe)
3 WS Video Imagineering Newton's Three Laws due today
4 Activity Motion Stations Day 1
5 WS Newton's Second Law Day 1

Testing Day One and Two.

Agenda April 21

Panorama Picture Day

Next week has a block schedule so agenda entries are for 2 days

1 J95 CH 10 Pre Reading due M/T 4/24-25

2 HW CH10 Directed Reading p171-188 all Target Reading due T/F 4/27-28

3 J96 CH10 Vocabulary due T/F 4/27-28

4 J97 CH10 Constructing Meaning due T/F 4/27-28

5 CH10 Marking the Text due M/T 4/24-25

6 Turn in:

Eureka video notes

WS Distance vs Time Graph

WS Velocity Acceleration Graph Review

Act Hot Wheels Acceleration Lab

WS Rollercoaster Acceleration

Miniatures Club will have Tanks, artillery, infantry, terrain and maybe safety goggles.

Agenda April 20 Thursday

1 Test CH 9 Motion (std 1)
2 All work due today has been pushed to tomorrow.

Agenda April 19

1 Eureka Video Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy
2 J93 Kinetic Energy
3 J94 Potential Energy
Test tomorrow

Agenda April 18 Tuesday

1 Activity Hot Wheels Acceleration Lab due Thurs. April 20
2 WS Rollercoaster Acceleration due Thurs. April 20
CH9 Test on Thurs. April 20
Make Up Test day after school Thurs. April 20

Agenda April 17 Welcome Back from Break

Mr G told me we have only 7 Fridays to go.
1 J    Acceleration
2 Eureka Video Notes Acceleration Part 1 and Part 2
3 Check CH9 Marking the Text if time
4 Return Work if time

I listen to NPR on occasion and heard a story on their show called This American Life about something called the Dunning Krueger Effect.  It was fascinating as it points out the obvious.
Scroll down to Act 2.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/585/transcript

I think they have a link where by you can listen to it as well.

Agenda April 7 Friday

Hope you all have a wonderful, safe Spring Break
1 Stamp WS Calculating Slope
2 Check CH9 HW Directed Reading, J  CH9 Vocabulary, and J  CH9 Constructing Meaning
3 Video Bill Nye Motion WS due today
4 Check CH Marking the Text if time

Aiming at April 20 for CH9 Test

Agenda April 6

Huzzah.  I am back to being even.
1 Activity Galileo's Marbles due today
2 WS Calculating Slope of Distance versus Time Graphs due Fri April 7

Make up test day after school today.

Agenda April 5 Wednesday

1 Videos and WS Eureka Speed
2 J89 Relative motion and Reference Point
3 J 90 Distance and Displacement
J91 Speed and Velocity

Make up test day Thursday after school.

Agenda April 4 Tues Open House shooting rockets

1 HW Directed Reading p155-170 Target Reading p168 only due Fri.  April 7
2 CH9 Marking the Text due Fri. April 7

Make up test day is Thursday after school.
Detentions for gum are Thursday after school.

Agenda April 3

1 Test Rate of Change (from your Math Standards)

Agenda March 31 Friday

1 Check J CH9 Pre Reading
2 Check CH8 HW Directed Reading, J  CH8 Vocabulary, J  CH8 Constructing Meaning, Activity How Many Molecules, and WS Substituted Hydrocarbons
3 J87 CH9 Vocabulary due Fri April 7
4 J88 CH9 Constructing Meaning due Fri April 7

Agenda March 30 Thursday

1Activity Speed Inquiry Sector 33 landing planes at SFO courtesy of our friends at NASA
2 CH9 Pre Reading due Friday 3/31

Agenda March 29

1 Trade and Grade Chapter 8 Test
2 Participation and Respect Grades
3 J86 CH9 Pre Reading due Friday, March 31

I am implementing a new grading regime based on Mr Shahin's request of all teachers to update their grades related to all LLL's through out the trimester.  I would normally hold off the scores for Participation and Respect until the end of the Trimester.  I am now going to update these scores every 20 assignments.    Every 10% of assignments missing will lower a Participation score by one.  Respect will be based on tardies, referrals, and my opinion of general classroom behavior.

Friday is International Day after school.  Miniatures Club will be meeting in the woodshop to build wooden tanks for the next game.  Students can finish ships as well.

Agenda March 28

1 Test CH8 Organic Chemistry
(if time) Participation and Respect grades

Agenda March 27 Monday

1 J85 Polymers
2 WS Video Modern Marvels Carbon
CH8 test is tomorrow

Agenda March 24 Friday

1 Stamp Making Molecules
2 J83 Carbon Compounds
3 J84 Organic Chemistry
4 WS Substituted Hydrocarbons due Fri., March 31

Agenda March 23

1 Act The Last Meal
2 How Many Molecules to be stamped 3/24

Agenda March 22 Wednesday

1 Act How Many Molecules

Agenda march 21 Tuesday

J81 CH8 Inquiry Lab Models of Molecules
J82 Properties of Carbon

Agenda March 20 Monday

1 J77 Finish with "Neutral"
2 HW CH8 Directed Reading All Target Reading due Fri., March 31

Agenda March 17 a wee tip 'o the ht to you Friday

1 Acid Base Test Trade and Grade
2 J78 CH8 Pre Read due today
3 J79 CH8 Vocabulary due Fri. March 31
4 J80 CH8 Constructing Meaning due Fri., March 31

Agenda March 16

1 Acid Base Test

Agenda March 15 Wednesday Beware the Ides of March

1 Acid Base Observations Lab Day2 including optional taste test The worksheet for the lab will be due on Friday
2 Acid base Test tomorrow

Agenda March 14 Pi Day and Albert Eintein's Birthday

1 Acid Base Observations Lab Day 1
2 Turn in any left over Alien Juice Bar Activity worksheets

Agenda March 13

1 Activity Alien Juice Bar WS due today
Go to this link to do the activity
http://static.lawrencehallofscience.org/scienceview/scienceview.berkeley.edu/html/showcase/flash/juicebar.html
Hair tied back for tomorrow's lab

Agenda March 10 Friday

1 Video Modern Marvels Acid WS due today
2 Moving the due date of HW Directed Reading, CH7 Vocabulary, and CH7 Constructing Meaning to Wed., March 15.

Agenda March 9

1 Trade and Grade Test
2 J77 Acids and Bases part 1
3 Keep turning in Solutions Lab

Agenda March 8 Wednesday

1 Test Solutions and Solubility Test
2 Turn in Solutions Lab

Agenda March 7 Tuesday

1 Activity Solutions Suspensions and Colloids Lab due tomorrow

Agenda March 6

1 Journal 75 revisited for the Tyndall Effect
2 Solutions Identity Activity
3 Aiming at Wednesday March 8 for Solutions and Solubility Test
4 Turn in paper for Solubility Lab

Agenda March 3 Friday

1 Journal
2 Solubility Lab (can be turned in on Monday)

Agenda March 2 Thursday

Agenda March 1

1 Return Work
2 Journal 75 Types of Solutions
3 Video Mythbusters Dropping a Penny

I need to enter the last few assignments that are "end of trimester" assignments and then grades will be complete.  All class work and tests should be up to date.

Agenda February 28

1 Trimester 3 Agenda and Journal check
Agenda 10/31-2/17
Journals 31-7-
2 Check CH7 Marking the Text
3 Check Rules and Procedures and Equipment Managers for Trimester 3

Agenda February 27 Monday

1 J73 and J74 due Friday, March 10
2 HW CH7 Directed Reading with Target Reading p124 and 134 due Friday, March 10
3 CH7 Marking the Text due Tuesday February 28
4 Turn in Art Project if you still have it.
Make Up Test days will be Tuesday, February 28 and Thursday, March 2.  All after school.
Agenda and Journal Check for Trimester 3 on Tuesday, February 28
Agenda 10/31 - 2/17
Journals 31 - 72
Bring Rules and Procedures tomorrow

Agenda February 17 Friday. A Day Without Power

1 J72 CH7 Pre Reading due today
2 J73 CH7 Vocabulary due Friday March 3
3 J74 CH7 Constructing Meaning due Friday March 3
4 Turn in Art Project Speeding Up Chemical Reactions
5 Trimester 2 Agenda and Journal Check on Tuesday, February 28

An after the fact note.  I got a text message from PG and E that the power was back on here at school after 5:30.
I was told once that school without the internet is like school in 1979.  School without power is like school in 1879.  Fortunately, this class had lessons that were not technology dependent.  I think we forget that we live in a world that isn't totally harmless.  As the Editors of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy wrote.  We are "Mostly Harmless".
I am concerned that the district, in a cost saving move, took out all of our land lines and attached all our phones to the internet.  You know, that thing that requires electricity.  When I asked the district person about this when it happened, he assured me that if it does, we can send notes to the office and that it wouldn't be out for that long anyway.  Thank goodness we didn't have any classroom emergencies.

Agenda February 16

1 Test CH6

Agenda February 15 Wednesday

1 Activity Video How to speed up chemical reactions or to get a date to the dance.  A TedEd video:

http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-speed-up-chemical-reactions-and-get-a-date

Students will be making a mini poster showing how to speed up chemical reactions and the corresponding analogy to getting a date to the dance.

Agenda and Journal Check on Tuesday, Feb. 28

Agenda February 14 Tuesday Valentine's Day

1 Zinc + Hydrochloric Acid Single Replacement Lab "pop"
2 CH6 Test on Thursday
3 Miniatures Club meets on Thursday this week because I have to catch a plane on Friday evening.

Agenda February 13

1 Activity Manganese Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition and Catalyst Lab
2 CH6 Test on Thursday

We attended a funeral for the parent of my wife's colleague on Saturday (my wife's birthday).  It was a very nice service for a person I wished I had known.
We went to dinner with our children to a restaurant in Cow Hollow in SF.  The restaurant was really nice in a fun way but the food was disappointing.  It is called Bistro Aix.  The backroom had an Olive tree in an atrium setting and all the tables had been cut from the same large Cedar tree.
Then we went home and my wife went to bed with a fever.  Not the best birthday.  We were supposed to go to a murder mystery dinner theater on Sunday evening but she was too sick.  It is Monday and she still has a fever.
We did some calculations and we have had over 72" of rain since October (the beginning of the rainy season).  Additionally, we have averaged over and inch of rain per day since the first of the year at almost four feet.
Lastly, we are watching the Orville Dam closely.  We go by that location regularly on the way to Lake Almoner.

Agenda February 10

1 Activity 2nd part of a lab started on Wednesday.  Today is Silver Nitrate and Sodium Phosphate.  the worksheet for this lab is due today.
2 CER for one of the two labs if time.

Today is the second day in woodshop.  We hope to finish the ships today to the point where we can play with them next week.  Work hard but work safe.
Miniatures Club is being moved next week to Thursday, February 16 because I am going to Texas on Friday to visit kin (that's what they call relatives in Texas so I am told)\
Tomorrow is Mrs Roberts' birthday.  For 16 days a year, I am a year older but that ends tomorrow.
I would post some pictures of my travels this past week on Hwy 17 and the surrounding country side but it has been two hands on the wheel these days.

Agenda February 9 Thursday

1 WS Video Bill Nye Architecture
2 Many students early in the day were at High School meetings.  They will need to get the worksheet and watch the video on their own online and return the worksheet by Friday, February 17

Agenda February 8 Wednesday

1 Activity
Aiming at Feb. 15 or 16 for CH6 Test

Agenda February 7

1 Stamp WS Types of Chemical Reactions
2 Activity Calcium Chloride/Sodium Phosphate Lab
3 Hearing Test Day

Aiming at Thursday, February 16 for CH6 Test.  Lots of Math Tests on Friday
Last night (just overnight) we had over 4" of rain.  Lots of wind too.  Power went out at 5AM but came on a few, long minutes later.

Agenda February 6 Monday

1 Return Work
2 CFA Balanced Equations check
3 Journal 70 Types of Chemical Reactions
4 WS Types of Chemical Reactions stamp today or tomorrow.  Collect with the CH6 Test next week

Agenda February 3

1 Stamp and Check WS Balanced Equations (could you figure out the level 5 question?)
2 Record HW CH6, J67 CH6 Vocabulary, J68 CH6 Constructing Meaning, WS Balancing Act, WS Balanced Equations, CH6 marking the Text
3 CFA Balanced Equations (if time)

Agenda February 2 Thursday

1 Stamp and Check WS Balancing Act
2 WS Balanced Equations due tomorrow
3 Check CH6 Marking the Text on Fri

Agenda February 1

1 Journal 69 Conservation of Matter
2 WS Balancing Act (Balancing Equations) check on Thurs. Feb. 2
3 CH6 Marking the Text will be checked on Thurs. Feb. 2

Agenda January 31

1 CH6 Marking the Text due Wed Feb 1
2 HW CH6 Directed Reading p105-122 Target Reading p106 only Due Fri., Feb. 3

Agenda January 30

1 J66 CH6 Pre Reading due today
2 J67 CH6 Vocabulary due Fri Feb 3
3 J68 CH6 Constructing Meaning due Fri Feb 3

We also demonstrated activation energy by trying to combine magnesium with oxygen.

Agenda January 27

1 CER Drops on a Penny
2 J 66 CH6 Pre Reading

Agenda January 26 Thursday

1 CER's: Introduction; Comparing Bonds; Drops on a Penny

Worst birthday since age 9

Agenda January 25 Wednesday

1 Return Work
2 Check grades on Powerschool in class
3 Turn in WS Covalent Bonds; WS Covalent and Ionic Bonds Review; Act Comparing Bonds; Act Drops on a Penny

Agenda January 24

1 Trade and Grade CH5 Test
2 No Make Up Tests this week
3 Collect 4 items:
WS Covalent Bonding
WS Ionic and Covalent Bonding Review
Activity Comparing 2 types of bonds
Activity Drops on a Penny Polar bonding lab

Agenda January 23 In Service no school for Students

Agenda January 20

1 Test Chapter 5

I postponed all the assignments due today to Tuesday January 24 to give ample time to take today's test.

Agenda January 19 Thursday

1 J65 Hydrogen Bonds
2 Activity Drops on a Penny due Friday, Jan. 20

Agenda January 18

1 WS Ionic and Covalent Review due Fri Jan. 20
2 Activity Comparing Ionic and Covalent Bonds Day 2 Still due Fri. Jan. 20

Miniatures Club will be Aerodrome with high performance planes and clouds.  Next Friday is the first day of Wooden Warships if I can get enough ships.  That's the 27th.  Then, on Feb. 3, we will be learning about woodworking safety so we can start building our own ships.

Agenda January 17 Monday

1 WS Covalent Bonds due Fri Jan 20
2 Activity Comparing Ionic and Covalent Bonds Day 1 due Fri Jan. 20
3 CH5 Test now aiming at Fri Jan. 20
Hair ties needed for today's lab

I nice weekend in Santa Rosa.  I updated the grade book with 30 some odd assignments.  It seems like I have 15 more to go.

Agenda January 13

1 Check and Record:
HW CH5 Directed Reading
J58 CH5 Vocabualry
J59 CH5 Constructing Meaning
Activity Bond With a Class Mate
WS Lewis Dots
WS Ionic Bonding
2 Finish Act Bond With a Classmate
Aiming at Thursday January 19 for CH5 Test.
All next week, hair needs to be tied back

Agenda January 12

1 Activity Bond With A Classmate Day 2
 We spent the night in a nice hotel in Sunnyvale.

Agenda January 11

1 Journal 63 Subscript and Poly Atomic Ions
2 Activity Bond with a Classmate day 1

Why 17 is so backed up, it took me 3 hours to get into Los Gatos.  I finally packed it in and my wife and I are staying the night in Sunnyvale.  Had to buy some clothes at Target and ate at Panda.

Agenda January 10 Tuesday

1 Journal 62
2 WS Lewis Dots check on Fri Jan 13
3 Ionic Bonds check on Fri Jan 13

Agenda January 9

We lost power a lot in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Sunday and the weekend total of rain was over 9".  Still we were warm and safe.  We wondered what the deer do when the weather is like that.

1 J 60 Lewis Dots
2 J 61 Types of Chemical Bonds
3 WS Lewis Dots check tomorrow

Agenda January 6

1 HW Directed Reading Packet p89-104 Target Reading p94. 99, 103 due Friday January 13
2 CH5 Marking the Text p89, 93, 98, and 102.  p89 due today
3 Collect WS's : WS #2 Half Life; and WS Radioactive Decay (these were handed out before the break)

Agenda January 5

1 J 57 Chapter 5 Pre Reading due today
2 J 58 Chapter 5 Vocabulary due Friday, January, 13
3 J 59 Chapter 5 Constructing Meaning due Friday, January 13
5 Make Up Test today after school

Miniatures Club - Aerodrome 1.1  Lets add clouds and 2 seaters

Agenda January 4 Wednesday

1 Trade and Grade Radioactivity Test
2 Make up Test Thursday Afterschool
3 WS's from before break are now due tomorrow

Agenda January 3

1 Journal 56 Gratitude or How to Write a Thank You Card
2 Return Work (if Time)

Agenda December 16 Friday

1  Test Radioactivity
2 The 2 worksheets on radioactivity will be due after vacation.
3 Demonstration of the rapid oxidation of hydrogen in a hydrogen/oxygen environment to produce water under strict laboratory conditions. -or- Blowing up the hydrogen and oxygen balloon outside.