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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Monster Babies

How were the F1 generations of monsters similar/different to the P1?  How were F2 generations similar/different to P1?

Friday, January 9, 2015

Science Fair Practice

Your projects looks amazing!  I can't wait to hear all of your presentations on Tuesday!

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Last Minute Planter Tending

After 2 long months, it is finally here!  Votes will be cast tomorrow by all your favorite teachers and staff on the best looking planters.  Who's do you think will take the prize for our abiotic plant factors project?

Traits Survey

Today we found many differences amongst ourselves, but also many similarities.  Dimples or not... Clef chins... Attached or unattached earlobes... Righty or lefty?  Did you find out anything new about yourself or your classmates?  Did it surprise you that you shared or didn't share so many traits?

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Animal Communication

In today's activity, what were the limitations to your method of communication in getting a task accomplished?

Monday, December 15, 2014

Animal Communication

How did today's activity resemble predator and prey interactions?  What made it easy or difficult for you to find your prey?  Give as many examples as you can of how animals communicate in nature.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Animal Communication Lab

Thanks for making this activity so much fun!  What challenges did you face as predator or prey?

Monday, November 17, 2014

Cupcake Core Drilling

Explain how this activity relates to geology.  How similar was your prediction to the actual layers of the cupcake?

Thursday, November 13, 2014

3D Cell Models

I was so amazed by the creativity of each of your models today!  Cell cities, basketball courts, golf courses, schools, countries and businesses all with perfect analogies for each organelle. Very impressive work! 

Vital Lung Capacity

How did your vital lung capacity compare to me and your classmates?  What do you think smoking would do to someone's vital lung capacity?

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Human Heart Model

Describe the path that blood takes in the circulatory system. What did each component that you used represent?

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Geologic Timeline

What is the most important concept you learned from doing your timeline?

Monday, November 3, 2014

Heart Rate Investigation

What were you able to conclude about heart rate and exercise from our investigation today?


Geologic Timeline

Hello sixth grade!  Great job on your timeline project so far!  What conclusions can you draw so far from your geologic timeline?

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Turtles!!!

Meet our latest and probably last addition... 3 super cool turtles :)

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Bagged Leaves Observations

Were you surprised by today's results?  What could we have done to control more variables and get more reliable results?
 
Here are the analysis questions and conclusion paragraph format if you did not get a chance to finish is class...
 
1.  What did you observe in the bag surrounding a bunch of living leaves?
2.  Where did the moisture in the bag come from?
3.  Were the leaves dry after being in the bag for a day?
4.  Why did out results vary from group to group?  What could we have done to control more variables?
 
Conclusion Paragraph Format
What did we do?
What was your hypothesis?
What did you observe?
Was your hypothesis supported/not supported?
What did you learn?