Ms. Vikingson’s Life Science Blog

Please note that this week your syllabus is due, parents and students are to subscribe to vikingson.edublogs.org and students will need TWO composition notebooks, colored pencils, glue, and scissors by Wednesday to begin our Interactive Student Notebook or INB.

Week 1: Scientific method

Standards:  S7CS1, S7CS2, S7CS3, S7CS4, S7CS5, S7CS6, S7CS7, S7CS8, S7CS9, S7CS10

Objectives:

- Identify the skills that scientists use to learn about the world

-  Explain what scientific inquiry involves

-  Describe how to develop a hypothesis and design an experiment

-  Describe the attitudes, or habits of mind, that re important in science

-  Describe the goal of technology

-  Explain how technology affects people in both positive and negative ways

-  Explain why preparation is important when carrying out scientific investigations

-  Describe what you should do if an accident occurs

Essential Questions:

1. What are the steps of the scientific method?
2. What is the difference between observation and inference?
3. How does science affect my life?
4. Why might your emotions affect you perception of something?
5. Why is it important to collaborate in science?

International Baccalaureate:  Human Ingenuity

Monday- SW receive the syllabus, go over classroom rules, discuss vikingson.edublogs.org

Homework for Monday- Students and parents read and fill out syllabus (100 HW points).  Parents and students also subscribe for vikingson.edublogs.org (100 extra credit homework points).  For those of you who are actually reading this homework assignment, please post a comment to my blog with your name, class period, and what you’re looking forward to most in science class.  This will be for an EXTRA 100 extra credit points!!

Tuesday- I will pick up signed syllabi to be returned no later than Friday.  SW receive the Super Scientist Quiz and Super Scientist Tips to help them with the quiz.  This is a 100 point classwork assignment and it must be shown to me when completed.

Homework for Tuesday- get all materials needed for science class by Wednesday (TWO composition notebooks, colored pencils, glue (rubber cement, glue stick, bottled glue), and scissors).  Finish super scientist worksheet.

Wednesday- SW review how to set up their Interactive Student Notebook (INB) using science interactive notebook guideline and the Interactive Student Notebooks ppt.  Students will complete their cover page and “about me” during class and may finish it for homework.

Homework for Wednesday-  Finish cover page and author page in INB (due Friday for 200 HW points).  Finish pasting in syllabus, INB guidelines, and finish working on Table of Contents

Thursday- SW complete a bellwork assignment on inference and observation.  We will then take what we have learned and pply it to our first lab about observation and inference which will be the first main entry into our INB.  We will be doing a lab using something called an obscertainer and we will use the Obscertainer Lab Template to set the lab up in our INB.

Homework for Thursday- Finish any lab questions not completed in class.  Complete INB cover page and author page due tomorrow.

Friday- SW work on a bellwork in regards to what they’ve learned about observation and inference. While doing so, I will check INB work.  They will then complete an observation and inference activity called fossil footprint ppt in which students will determine the events that occur given a limited amount of information using fossil evidence.  SW create a story from their determination and put it into their INB for Monday.

Homework for Friday-  Finish Fossil Footprint 3 paragraph story for Monday.