January 4, 2017

Happy New Year everyone! Team Legacy was glad to see everyone back today, and we’re looking forward to a productive rest of the year.

Integrated science today began by doing a short survey regarding connecting students with potential STEM careers, and then restated Newton’s Laws of motion, with examples. We discussed a few new procedures for the whiteboards today and with the materials at the table, but students spent most of the period reviewing the feedback on their lab reports. The end of the period was used for students to answer a few questions about Newton’s Laws, and to begin homework.

Science 8 students began class today by completing a short challenge to set up our new procedures for materials at our tables, and then we passed back some old work that was graded over break. Students then received instruction on how to use the bar graph of fossil age ranges and plots of fossils on rock layers to determine the age of of rock layers. Students had about 15 minutes to work on the lab and ask for help today, but will need to finish for homework. Students in periods 4 and 5 were able to begin an ABC graffiti activity on our new unit that begins tomorrow on Natural Selection, Evolution, and Extinction.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= Finish problems 1-4 on the Newton’s Law 3 problems worksheet.
Science 8= Finish determining the age ranges, Rock layer age ranges, and plotting fossils on the rock layers for the Fossil Lab 2016-17