End of Year Review

We are in the big push for the end of the year! The Measures of Student Learning tests will be on May 16 for science. Students will begin bringing home some papers that are for review of the year. These papers will say "(Unit Name) TEST" at the top, but they are not tests. They are only for us to review the information we have covered this year. We will be working backwards (reviewing more recent information first and material from the beginning of the year closer to test time) and there will be one "TEST" for each section we studied this year.

 Students should also go back over information they have in their notebooks. Understanding the essential questions will be more useful than knowing facts and details.

Waves Simulation

This Week in Science

This week we are wrapping up our unit on matter with solubility and density.  Yesterday and today we read about solubility as a class and took notes as we read.

Since we are approaching the end of the unit, there will be a vocabulary quiz on either this Friday or Monday next week. I will know more once I know how much we get through tomorrow.  Students have been given a small glossary sheet and we marked the words that will be on the quiz.

They are: atom, boiling point, chemical change, chemical property, density, element, freezing point, gas, liquid, mass, matter, melting point, physical change, physical property, plasma, solid, solubility, solute, solvent, volume.

Science Homework.

The past week  we have been studying the periodic table. We have discussed metals, non metals, and metalloids. We have also been working on a study packet. Pages 35, 36, and 37 should be completed with the time we had in class. Students must finish any work they did not complete in class at home this weekend.

here is a link to an interactive periodic table.  It gives some neat facts and uses for each element.  http://www.ptable.com/ 

Planetarium show at the Concord Library Apr. 13

The Cabarrus County Library in downtown Concord will be offering a Planetarium show on Saturday, April 13, 2013.  It will be from 2:00pm-3:00pm.  This program will be part of the North Carolina Science Festival (April 5-21).  Admission is free and open to the public.  The program is titled ‘Solar System Spectacular’ and will explore the planets, asteroids, comets and other wonders of our cosmic neighborhood.

Space is limited so registration for this program is required!  Call 704.920.2054 to register.

States of matter at the molecular level

Today in class we are looking at the states of matter and how they appear at the molecular level.
We used this application in class to have some discussions.

Click to Run

Tonight's Homework

This week we are shifting gears slightly to learn some basic chemistry including: matter, states of matter, atoms, and more!

Students should finish the reading and questions we started in class today--"What is Matter? Everything is , OK!" I will be just doing a quick walk around to make sure it is done and we will discuss it in class. 

Additions to the table of Contents will be added to the webpage soon.