Wednesday May 6
1. Park your stuff, homework should be out in front of you.
2. Go over atomic modeling assignment sheet.
Steps
1. Get topic and medium approved by cohort leader, THEN by teacher. To do this, you need to draw a template of your model with the correct number of p,n,e, bond angles, etc.
2. Write artist's statement following assignment sheet guidelines.
3. Get draft of artist's statement read by a teacher.
4. Make edits.
5. HW: Bring in supplies for model, finish artist's statement. Rubric is due at beginning of class on Friday.
Friday May 1
1. Park, hand in lab practical in order.
2. Quiz (1 hour, Peggy will call people for lab practical part, bring your quiz with you). When you finish, read _ in the book (atoms and molecules).
3. Understanding the stuff around us/ atoms and molecules.
Thursday April 30
1. Lab Practical finish.
2. Work on comprehension section lab practical.
3. HW: lab practical due at 1:00, stapled.
Wednesday April 29
0. Arrive, park your bags, you need a notebook, pencil, calculator, hw.
1. Go over homework, questions before lab practical.
2. Lab Practical, here are there amounts and the dilutions. You may use your notes. When you are ready with a hypothesis, show calculations to Ms. Jensen.
3. Peggy is in the lab area, you must get skills checked with her.
4. When you finish, you may work on your Comprehension rubric, which is due on Friday. You will not have class time tomorrow to work on it.
Monday April 27
0. Arrive, park your bags, you need a notebook, pencil, calculator.
1. Lab Practical on Wednesday. No class tomorrow.
2. Going over the calculations; how much gives us the best ratio?
3. Lab Challenge 2- practicing for the lab practical
4. HW: Practice calculations for the lab practical
Friday April 17
Ms. Jensen can do it better- this is why!
Thursday April 16
1. Arrive, park, sit with your cohort. You need a notebook and a pencil.
2. Presentations from Kaylie, Tom, Adam.
3. 1 hour for experimenting…find the best ratio and graph it.
4. Analyze graphs and experiments- which ratio is best?
5. Ms. Jensen can do it better- this is why!
6. HW: How to use the wiki worksheet.
Tuesday March 17
1. Arrive, park, sit with cohort.
2. Go back over independent project assignment.
3. Presentations for topic approval by a few students.
4. Independent Project Work, finishing Research Paper for those that are not done.
5. Cohort meetings/ presentations.
Monday March 9
1. Arrive, park. Pass back rubrics, progress reports, quizzes.
2. Finish research paper presentations.
Peggy's group:
Tori
Catherine
Ben F.
Alyssa
Jake Z.
Ms. Jensen's group:
Josh
Andrew M.
Kam
Jake C.
Chris W.
3. Introduce Independent Project-
Assignment sheet
Timeline
Work Habits
4. Work time
Independent Project- start on step 1
Research Paper- finish, revise, improve
Friday March 6
1. Arrive, park, Get your Work Habits sheet and calculate your total score. If you know you were absent any of the days, please put a * and a NOTE at the top saying so.
2. Peggy explains Friday Quiz. Take Friday Quiz.
3. Prepare for presentations to Cohort. Go over Presentation Rubric.
4. Presentations in Cohorts.
5. HW: Brainstorm a list of 5 independent project topics. BE SPECIFIC.
Wednesday March 5
1. Arrive, park, WORK HABITS.
2. Pass out pink rubrics. Read them while you wait for work habits to be done.
3. Read 2 example papers.
4. Papers due tomorrow 8:00 am, 2 copies. 1 copy stapled to rubric, 1 copy seperate.
5. Today's to do:
Peer edit 1st draft.
Revise this draft.
Teacher edit.
Revise this draft.
Get bibliography edited by bibliographer.
Get spelling and grammar edited by spelling and grammar editor.
Get your paper looked at by format editor.
6. WHEN YOU THINK YOU ARE DONE, TALK TO A TEACHER.
Tuesday March 3
1. Arrive in class, get your work habits sheet out of your binder. Fill it out and bring it to Ms. Jensen or Peggy. Then, return it to the binder and wait quietly in your seat while papers are passed back.
2. Peggy- revisit mini lesson on tnotetaking, putting notes together to write a rough draft.
3. Today's to do list:
Finish taking notes on notecards. You should have atleast 3 RELIABLE sources.
Get notes approved by teacher.
Write a rough draft from your notes, in your own words.
4. Trainings: Format editors, Work Habits, Spelling and Grammar Editors.
5. This paper is due first thing FRIDAY. You should be following the time line on your yellow sheet in order to be on track.
Friday February 27
1. Arrive in class, get your work habits sheet out of your binder. Fill it out and bring it to Ms. Jensen or Peggy. Then, return it to the binder and wait in your seat.
2. Do now- on the board.
3. Go over topics that have been approved. Those that have not had topics approved, please meet with Ms. Jensen immediately after this get together.
4. Peggy: mini-lesson on notetaking!
5. QUIZ!
6. Get to work. Order to do things (see yellow sheet)
Get topic approved.
Find reliable sources and WRITE THEM DOWN.
Take notes on all three reliable sources.
5. Meetings: Immediately, those without topics approved.
Soon, bibiliographers and work habits monitors.
Thursday February 26
1. Model and Artist's statement were due on the wall by 8:30 this morning. They look awesome!
2. Arrive in class, park your bag and sit with your cohort. You have until 1:04 to turn in your rubric and any rough drafts, STAPLED, WITH YOUR NAME ON THEM, to the front table.
3. Assign jobs in cohort. Each cohort needs:
- Bibliographer
- Work Habits Monitor
- Spelling and Grammar Editor
- Format Editor
4. Introduce Research Project! Read assignment sheet together, assignment sheet quiz.
5. Peggy and Ms. Jensen model work habits sheets.
6. Time to begin! Look on your assignment sheet for what you need to work on today. Peggy will meet with anyone who doesn't have any ideas for their paper right away.
7. At approximately 2:00, Ms. Jensen will meet with the Bibliographers for each group for a short training session.
8. At approximately 2:30, Peggy will meet with Work Habits Monitors for a short training session.
9. Spelling and Grammar and Format Editors will have a training session tomorrow.
HW: 20-40 minutes work on research paper
Wednesday February 25
1. Mini- lesson on properties of matter and changes in matter (30 minutes)
2. Work on model and artist's statement.
Draw a prototype.
Get approved by cohort leader or vice-leader.
Get approved by teacher.
Work on building model or writing artist's statement. Use the green assignment sheet.
3. HW: Model and artist's statement due up on wall by 8:30 am TOMORROW. Rubric with any rough drafts due at 1:00.
Tuesday February 24
Homebase time used for extra help and research topic ideas
1. Work day on models:
Start by deciding what you will make a model of. If you are doing a molecule, you must research and figure out bond angles and types of bonding.
2. Draw a prototype of what your model will look like.
3. Get model approval from cohort leader or Vice- Leader.
4. Submit prototype to teacher for approval.
5. Work on building model and/or artists statement.
6. HW: Need 5 ideas for research project and to work on this rubric.
Monday February 23
1. Hand back rubrics, no grade announcements. Quizzes?
2. Conversation about bonding and electrons from Friday.
3. Practice Questions with half cohort about bonding and electrons.
4. Introduce rubric assignment, begin brainstorming.
5. HW: Bring in 3 ideas of what you want to make a model of, some supplies.
6. HW: 5 ideas for reasearch project by Weds.
Friday February 13
0. Hand in rubric, in order that I gave yesterday. On the front table and STAPLED by 1:05.
A. Sit with your half cohort in a place you can see the board. Park your bag. You need your notebook.
1. Finish conversation from yesterday (atomic numbers, neutrons, protons)
2. Answer "Important Questions" in small groups.
3. QUIZ!
4. Atoms for Molecules
Thursday February 12
1. Conversation about Comprehension section of rubric.
2. 30 minutes of work time. During this work time you may
Work on Comprehension section of rubric (due tomorrow)
Get lab skills checked off by Peggy
Get Application section ready to hand in (due tomorrow)
** BSV Assignment Sheet with initials
** Calculations
** List of Steps (Methods)
** Comprehension section (results and discussion OR a note saying "posted on the wiki" and where on the wiki
3. What are these chemicals made of?
4. HW: Rubric both parts due tomorrow, 1:00 pm stapled.
Wednesday February 11 Lab Practical Day!
1. HW Check, Announcements about lab practical
2. Peggy meet with group trying for Novice to explain task.
3. Ms. Jensen meet with those trying for A- P.
You have the class period as a time limit. Must be finished with calculations and two tests and cleaned up.
May get help and support from Ms. Jensen until you are ready to start. When you are ready to start I will give you the numbers you need.
Ms. Jensen will be checking off calculations. Peggy will be watching the lab for good performance. BEFORE THE END OF CLASS YOU MUST CHECK IN WITH PEGGY TO SHOW YOUR PROFICIENCY IN LAB WORK. SHE WILL ASK YOU A SERIES OF QUESTIONS (including to see your data table).
4. When you are completely finished (and have been initialed by Ms. Jensen and Peggy, you may begin to work on Distinguished option (due tomorrow) or the Comprehension section (due Friday).
Tuesday February 10 (12-1 in Homebase Room, 1- 1:45 in Science Room)
1. Sit with your half cohort.
2. Take notes on chemical reactions/ acid/base reactions.
3. Lab Practical is tomorrow.
4. Break into groups to go over quiz and prepare for lab practical.
Group 1 (independent work) |
Group 2 (Ms. Jensen) |
Group 3 (Peggy) |
Kaylie |
Kam |
Chris |
Josh |
Charlotte |
Chris |
Tom |
Ben |
Catherine |
Isabelle |
Jake C. |
Destiny |
Alyssa |
Andrew R. |
Jake Z. |
Cairo |
Tori |
Andrew M. |
Quinn |
Eric Mullane |
cell-content |
Mike |
Erik McCarthy |
cell-content |
Corey |
cell-content |
cell-content |
Adam |
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5. HW: Practice problems for lab practical.
Monday February 9
1. Sit with your half cohort.
2. You should be working on the calculations for your hypothesis for your challenge.
3. At 1:15 we will take the Quiz- remember your scores places you in a level for the rubric tomorrow.
4. Work on BSV Challenge 2
5. HW: Reading/ note taking on chemical reactions and acids/bases.
4. Lab Practical tomorrow or Wednesday?
Friday February 6
1.HW check/ go over answers
2.MONDAY QUIZ on moles, these equations, basics of the periodic table (score will determine which track for the lab practical on the next day).
3.What is a mole?
4.1 amu = 1 g (because a mole is wonderful!)
5.Our reaction (calculations continued)
6.Ms. Jensen's best reaction
7.Your new challenge
8.HW
Thursday February 5
1. Announcements, quick HW check
2. Cohort Leader Elections
3. 30 minutes to finish your data collection (during this time, people should take turns getting on computers and putting last night's hw assignment on the wiki. If this isn't done in class, it will be extra homework tonight).
4. Make sure data is compiled into a table and graph on an overhead.
5. Data analysis.
6. Ms. Jensen can do it better- this is why!