Animal Communication

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

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.

Rock Identification

It is hard to pick a favorite 6th grade topic, but this is definitely in the top ten for me!  Rocks ROCK!!!

Cellular Respiration Animation Link

Link to Cellular Respiration Animation

Animal Communication Lab

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

Hummingbird Sighting!

Cupcake Core Drilling

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

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?

The Evolution of Life on Earth

Human Heart Model

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

Geologic Timeline

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

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?

Turtles!!!

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

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?

 

Bagged Leaves Investigation

Knowing what you do about photosynthesis, what do you think you will observe in your bags tomorrow?

Trash Lab

What did you learn about the amount of trash you produce on a daily basis?  How much of it can be recycled, reduced, or reused?  What practical steps can you take to lessen your impact on our environment and increase the sustainability of the ecosystem?

Solar Eclipse

Awesome job today hosting the solar eclipse event!  Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with our school.  As always you were very impressive.  I think everyone enjoyed experiencing science in action.

Solar Eclipse

Leaf Classification

What are the 3 types of leaves we discussed today?  How do they differ from one another?

Science Night

Wow!!!  What an amazing night!  You all were so fantastic!  Words cannot express how proud and honored I am to be your teacher.  Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication, not only this last week, but everyday.  I am honestly the luckiest teacher in the world to have the opportunity to work with each of you.  Thank you for making science night and everyday rock!!!

This night would not have been possible without our other helpers.  I would also like to send a special thank you to Mrs. Unkeless for running countless errands, giving her time to help pass out tickets tonight, and for helping us set up and clean up.  Thank you Ms. Tammy for making all of our letters, getting us poster board, and making us countless copies.  Thank Ms. Sandy for all of the laminating.  Thank you Mr. Eric for helping us set up extra tables.  Thank you to all of your other teachers for giving us extra time for practice.  Thank you Mrs. Snider for my emergency big gulp.  And, a big thank you to all of your parents for all of their support.  Please make sure you express your gratitude to these people next time you see them.  Without our amazing support staff, none of this would have been possible.

Again, amazing work tonight!  I can't wait to start planning for science fair!

Science Night Practice

Great presentations today my awesome biology students!  I know the third graders appreciated your knowledge and enthusiasm.  Great job!!!

Lady Larvae Emerge!!!

Finally!!!  Our Painted Lady have emerged!  What observations did you make of your Painted Lady today?

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