Teaching Middle School Science

Physical science Planner
December 15, 2008
Monday Table of Contents update, Finish notebook check, Finish matter notes. Discuss M&M labs. Homework: Organize notebook and study for semester final.
Tuesday Test Review
Wednesday Test Review
Thursday Semester Final, Remember your notebook and calculator
Friday Core Movie October Skies

Please notice I have placed a password on the handouts page. I am giving the password to students and will e-mail it home using Parent Bridge.

Here is the first of what I hope to be a weekly podcast made by my students. The podcast will relate what is happening in class and important upcoming events.
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Here are the lecture notes for this week

Did you know you could download this presentation to i-tunes? Just click on the video above and then click on the ipod icon. Speaking of ipods, if you have any older ipods, I could use them in class. With the holiday season here maybe someone you know has upgraded to a newer model and has one that could be put to good use in science. Please let me know if this is the case!

I have noticied that my flickr slide show does not appear in  Internet Explorer, but it runs fine in Firefox.  This has happened before and I will try to fix it.  If anyone has Safari or other browsers, please let me know how the site appears.

We are begining our disscussion of matter this week with a look at how matter is classified.  Here is a link that I think is a good introduction.  I will add more to the link page as I find them.

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Monday Finish Electricity, Cost/Benefit of energy sources.  Homework read chapter 15  Foldable page 449,

Tuesday Intro to matter

Wednesday Quiz Matter Chapter 15 section 1 and Electricity, Homework due

Thursday/ Friday  Physical properties lab, grade notebooks