Back to 2009 - Science

 

Classroom Management Plan

 

Curriculum Map

 

Lesson Plans (click on links below for lesson plans, handouts, powerpoints, etc.)

6/9 - Tuesday (Day 1)

     Block 1 - 2009 Summer School Intro, Rules, Consequences, Rewards

     Block 2 - 2009 Summer School Rules  

     Block 3 - Why Science Is Important and Pretest

     Block 4 - Earth's Axis, Tilt and the Seasons

6/10 - Wednesday (Day 2)

     Block 1 - Layers of the Earth (continental crust, oceanic crust, asthenosphere, lithosphere)

     Block 2 - Intro to Living and Non-Living Things and Cells

     Block 3 - Intro to Ecology (organism, population, community, habitat, biotic and abiotic factors)

     Block 4 - Heirarchy of the Universe(Solar System)

6/11 - Thursday (Day 3)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Folding & Faulting (folds, faults, normal fault, reverse fault, transform fault)

     Block 2 - Plant and Animal Cell Models

     Block 3 - Biomes

     Block 4 - Heirarchy of the Universe(Life cycle of stars)

6/12 - Friday (Day 4)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Plate Boundaries (divergent, convergent, transform, plate boundaries)

     Block 2 - Animal Cells and Tissue Identification

     Block 3 - Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

     Block 4 - Heirarchy of the Universe(Types of Galaxies)

6/15 - Monday (Day 5)

     Block 1 - 

     Block 2 - Seismic Wave Velocities

     Block 3 - Microscope Lab

     Block 4 - Expanding Universe

6/16 - Tuesday (Day 6)

     Block 1 - Volcanoes

     Block 2 -

     Block 3 - Adaptation

     Block 4 - (Merica) Waves

6/17 - Wednesday (Day 7)

     Block 1 - Plate Tectonics / Pangaea (Wegener, plate tectonics, fossil evidence, geologic evidence, Pangaea)

     Block 2 - Introduction to DNA: Isolation from Cheek Cells OR Heredity: DNA, Genes, Chromosomes, Phenotype

     Block 3 - Evolution and Extinction

     Block 4 - (Merica) Astronomy Review and Exam

6/18 - Thursday (Day 8)

     Block 1 - Geology Review and Assess

     Block 2 - DNA Replication and Candied DNA Replication Model

     Block 3 - (Merica) Cellular Respiration

     Block 4 - Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

6/19 - Friday (Day 9)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Temperature, Precipitation, Wind

     Block 2 -

     Block 3 - Ecology Review and Assessment

     Block 4 - Global Warming and Pollution OR  Greenhouse Effect and Gases

6/22 - Monday (Day 10)

     Block 1 - Dew Point, Relative Humidity, Barometric Pressure

     Block 2 - (Merica) Air Masses and Fronts

     Block 3 - Punnett Square Calculations

     Block 4 - The Water Cycle

6/23 - Tuesday (Day 11)

     Block 1 - Global Wind Patterns

     Block 2 - (Merica) Barometer

     Block 3 - Chromosomes and Phenotype

     Block 4 - Carbon and Oxygen Cycle (respiration, photosynthesis, carbon dioxide, global warming, fossil fuels)

6/24 - Wednesday (Day 12)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Clouds

     Block 2 - Weather Maps

     Block 3 - Single-Celled Organisms

     Block 4 -

6/25 - Thursday (Day 13)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Tornadoes

     Block 2 -

     Block 3 - Genetic Engineering and Selective Breeding

     Block 4 -

6/26 - Friday (Day 14)

     Block 1 - Weather Review

     Block 2 - Weather Unit Review and Assess

     Block 3 - Genetics Unit Review and Assess

     Block 4 - (Merica) Chemistry Intro

6/29 - Monday (Day 15)

     Block 1 - Atoms, Elements, and Symbols

     Block 2 - Lab Safety

     Block 3 - (Merica) Cycles of Matter Test

6/30 - Tuesday (Day 16)

     Block 1 - SI Base Units and US Customary Units

     Block 2 - (Merica) Physics Intro

     Block 3 - Periodic Table Intro

7/1 - Wednesday (Day 17)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Newton's Laws of Motion

     Block 2 - Periodic Table: Metals and Non-metals

     Block 3 - Volume and Area

7/2 - Thursday (Day 18)

     Block 1 - Periodic Table Essay

     Block 2 - 

     Block 3 - Temperature

7/3 - Friday (Day 19)

     (No School)

7/6-Monday (Day 20)

     Block 1 - Scientific Method 

     Block 2 - (Merica) Newton's Laws Continued

     Block 3 - Chemical Formulas

7/7 - Tuesday (Day 21)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Potential and Kinetic Energy

     Block 2 - Chemical Reactions

     Block 3 - Graphing

7/8 - Wednesday (Day 22)

     Block 1 - Chemical Equations Continued

     Block 2 - The Cell Cycle

     Block 3 - (Merica) Work and Power

7/9 - Thursday (Day 23)

     Block 1 - Mitosis

     Block 2 -

     Block 3 - (Merica) Work Continued and Simple Machines

7/10 - Friday (Day 24)

     Block 1 - (Merica) Simple Machines Continued

     Block 2 - Counting Atoms and Balancing

     Block 3 - Mitosis Lab

7/13 - Monday (Day 25)

     Block 1 - Balancing Equations 

     Block 2 - (Merica) Electricity and Circuits

     Block 3 - Mitosis Review

7/14 - Tuesday (Day 26)

     Block 1 - Meiosis

     Block 2 - (Merica) Electricity, Charge and Electrons

     Block 3 - Acids, Bases, Indicators

7/15 - Wednesday (Day 27)

     Block 1 - Meiosis II

     Block 2 - Acids and Bases Continued

     Block 3 - (Merica) Physics History and Review

7/16 - Thursday (Day 28)

     Block 1 - Chemistry Unit Review and Assess

     Block 2 -

     Block 3 - (Merica) Physics Review

7/17 - Friday (Day 29)

     Block 1 - Biology Test

     Block 2 - (Merica) Physics Test

     Block 3 - 

 

Assessments

 

Teacher Resources (i.e. links for references/resources/enrichment)