Students will be able to:
use the information from virtual activities, textbooks, hans-on activites, and classroom discussions to
-learn what causes seasons.
-relate seasons to the duration and directness of sunlight.
Students received HL 13, which is due tomorrow. Be sure to head your paper correctly and place answers only on your paper, Keep the handout to check your work. This can be found at the top of this blog.
Students received the GIZMO handout on Summer and Winter, which deals with the seasons and their cause. Keep this to place in your notebook for this week.
Students began remediation work for the seventh grade benchmarks on physical science. The work for the week is as follows:
Remediation Week of 3/05/12
SC.7.P.10.1 Illustrate that the sun’s energy arrives as radiation with a wide range of wavelengths, including infrared, visible, and ultraviolet, and that white light is made up of a spectrum of many different colors.
If you got questions 1, 2, 4, 20, and/or 24 wrong:
1. Do the Pearson assigned activities:
How do electromagnetic waves compare?
How does the Sun’s energy arrive on Earth?
What makes up the electromagnetic spectrum?
2. Also, go to the Explore tab and click the link for Chapter 9 and then Chapter 9.1 Waves and the
electromagnetic spectrum. Click the Elaborate tab and complete the Interactive Art activity.
3. Then, go to Dr Gayden’s Science Zone (drgcdms.podomatic.com) and click the first link to learn more about
the electromagnetic spectrum.
SC.7.P.10.3 Recognize that light waves, sound waves, and other waves move at different speeds in different materials.
If you got questions 10, 22, and/or 25 wrong:
1. Do the Pearson assigned activity:
What factors affect the speed of a wave?
2. Then, go to ylearn.co.uk and use the access code sc7p103 and your name to learn more about light waves.
SC.7.P.11.2 Investigate and describe the transformation of energy form one form to another.
If you got questions 7,9, 11, and/or 23 wrong:
1. Go to the Explore Tab and click the link for Chapter 10 and then Chapter 10.1 Energy Transformations and
Conservation. Click the Elaborate tab and complete the Directed Virtual Lab activity.
SC.7.P.11.4 Observe and describe what heat flows in predictable ways, moving from warmer objects to cooler ones until they reach the same temperature.
If you got questions 8, and/or 13 wrong:
1. Do the Pearson assigned activities:
How is heat transferred?
What is thermal energy?
2. Also, go to the Explore tab and click the link for Chapter 10 and then Chapter 10.3 The Transfer of Heat. Click the Elaborate tab and complete the Interactive Art activity.
3. Then, go to Dr Gayden’s Science Zone (drgcdms.podomatic.com) and click the second and third links to test your knowledge of heat transfer.