Mr. Knapp, Science Teacher
Phone: 651-748-6670
Fax: 651-748-6591
E-mail: dknapp@isd622.org
Wednesday 01/07/09
Objective:
To produce a poster - on your planet
Agenda:
Group work: Planet Poster
Homework:
What ever it takes to be able
to turn in your poster on Friday
Tuesday 01/06/09
Objective:
To produce a poster - on your planet
Agenda:
Group work: Planet Poster
Homework:
Depending on the status of your poster/paper
Monday 01/05/09
Objective:
To learn and educate us on your planet
Agenda:
1. Review/Overview of project
2. Group work: Poster
Homework:
Research paper
Friday 12/19/08 to Monday 01/05/09
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Happy Holidays!
Homework: None
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Thursday 12/18/08
Objective:
To learn about threats to Earth from Space
Agenda:
The Universe - The End of our Earth
Homework:
None
Wednesday 12/17/08
Objective:
To learn about one of the
planets in our solar system
Agenda:
Activity: Today is the last day with
the library books on planets
Homework:
More research on your planet
Tuesday 12/16/08
Objective:
To learn about one of the solar
systems' planets
Agenda:
1. Terms to know
2. Activity:
Research
Homework:
None
Monday 12/15/08
Objective:
To learn about/get started on the
Planet project
Agenda:
1. Introduction / Assignments
2. Poster / Paper project
Homework
None
Friday 12/12/08
Objective:
To learn about the planetary project
Agenda:
1. Extraterrestrials? - a discussion
2. Appointment Clock
3. Planetary Project, a preview
Homework:
None
Thursday 12/11/08
Objective:
To learn about oils' role in our society
Agenda:
1. Recap
2. Modern Marvels: Secrets of Oil
Homework:
None
Wednesday 12/10/08
Objective:
1. To learn about Mr. Knapp's policy
on extra credit
2. To learn about oil
Agenda:
1. The perigee of our moon (12/12)
2. Discussion: Extra Credit
3. Oil
Homework:
None
Tuesday 12/09/08
Objective:
To learn about astronomy/astronomers
Agenda:
1. Students Finish notes
2. Finish 100 greatest discoveries - astronomy
Homework:
Study notes on astronomers
Monday 12/08/08
Objective:
To learn about some important
astronomers in history
Agenda:
Notes: pages 456-458
Homework:
Study your notes from today
Friday 12/05/08
Objective:
To learn about the history of astronomy
Agenda:
1. Introduction to chapter
2. Notes: The Who's Who of Early Astronomy
Homework:
None
Thursday 12/04/08
Objective:
To enjoy a good book
Agenda:
Reading Day in Science
Homework:
None
Monday 11/25/08
Objective:
To learn about and identify rocks
Agenda:
Lab (day 2):
Identification of igneous/
metamorphic rocks
Homework:
Study -Test is Tuesday!
Friday 11/21/08
Objective:
To learn igneous/metamorphic rocks
Agenda:
Lab:
Identification of Igneous /
Metamorphic Rocks
Homework:
Study - Test Tues. (see 11/19/08)
Thursday 11/20/08
Objective:
To learn about the rock cycle
Agenda:
Notes / discussion on the rock cycle
Homework:
Study for test on Tuesday (see Wed. 11/19)
Wednesday 11/19/08
Objective:
To learn about Tuesday's test
To learn about weathering
To learn about volcanoes
Agenda:
1. Test overview
Pangaea
What was it?
Who came up with the theory?
What evidence supports the theory?
What are the continental plates mostly made of?
What are the oceanic plates mostly made of?
What are the plates sliding on? What layer of the Earth?
What drives the plates apart?
Know that this is a divergent Fault
What is the “mid-Atlantic Ridge?
What are the three types of converging faults?
Know how to describe each of the 3 converging faults
What is a transform fault?
What is an example of a transform fault?
Know what weathering is
What is chemical weathering?
What is mechanical weathering?
Be able to identify 4 types of chemical weathering
Know the difference between weathering and erosion
Still to come: Volcanoes, the Rock Cycle, and Types of Rock
2. Ppt: Weathering and erosion
3. Volcanoes
Homework:
Study for Tuesday's Test
Tuesday 11/18/08
Objective:
To learn about weathering/erosion
Agenda:
Ppt. with notes
Homework:
Study your notes for class
Monday 11/17/08
Objective:
To learn about earthquakes
Agenda:
1. News: Earthquake in CA,
Leonid Meteor Showers
2. Earthquake Lab Review
Homework:
Study your notes
Friday 11/14/08
Objective:
To learn about earthquakes
Agenda:
1. CBS news report: 1:38min.
(5 million participate in CA
earthquake drill on 11/13/08)
2. PowerPoint:
Seismographs
Seismometers
the Seismoscope
and the Richter Scale
3. Finish Earthquake Lab
Homework:
None
Thursday 11/13/08
Objective:
To learn how earthquakes are recorded/measured
Agenda:
1. Introduction
2. Lab: Earthquake epicenter
Homework:
None
Wednesday 11/12/08
bjective:
To learn about faults
Agenda:
Notes / Discussion on the 3 types of faults
Homework:
Study today's notes
Tuesday 11/1108
Objective:
To learn about earthquakes
Agenda:
1. Top Ten Earthquakes in the U.S.
2. Five Deadliest quakes
3. Examples of damage done by
earthquakes of the past
4. New Madrid Earthquake
Homework:
None
Monday 11/10/08
Objective:
To learn about earthquakes
Agenda:
Survey/Question/Read and
discuss earthquakes
Homework:
None
Friday 11/07/08
Objective:
To learn about the interior of the Earth
Agenda:
Notes/Diagram: Layers of the Earth
2. National Geographic's The core
Homework:
None
Thursday 11/06/08
Objective:
To learn about the layers that make up
our Earth
Agenda:
1. Survey/Question/Read
2. Notes/Diagram: Layers of the Earth
Homework:
None
Wednesday 11/05/08
Objective:
To learn about current topics in science
Agenda:
Science World Magazine/ with questions
Homework:
None
Tuesday 11/04/08
Objective:
To learn how our Earth was (is) made
Agenda;
1. Review yesterday's lab
2. How the Earth was Made
Homework:
None
Monday 11/03/08
Objective:
To learn about relative age dating
Agenda:
1. Explanation/examples of
relative age dating
2. Activity: Rocks that You can Eat!
Homework:
Rocks that You can Eat!
Friday 10/31/08
Objective:
To learn about how our Earth
was made
Agenda:
How the Earth was Made
Homework:
None
Thursday 10/30/08
Objective:
To learn about our Earth's History
Agenda:
How the Earth Was Made
(1.5bya - 300mya)
Homework:
None
Wednesday10/29/08
Objective:
Enjoyment and fulfilment from
reading a book of one's choosing
Agenda:
Reading Day
Homework:
None
Tuesday 10/28/08
Objective:
To learn about NASA's Apollo
space program
Agenda:
In the Shadow of the Moon
Apollo 11-Apollo 15
Homework:
Bring a book to read
(Wednesday is Reading Day)
Monday 10/27/08
Objective:
To learn about Pangaea and
Continental Drift
Agenda:
Activity: Pangaea Project
Homework:
Pangaea Project is due Tuesday
Friday 10/24/08
Objective:
To learn about Pangaea and
continental drift
Agenda:
Activity: Pangaea Project
Homework:
None
Thursday 10/23/08
Objective:
To learn about Pangaea and
Continental Drift
Agenda:
Activity: Pangaea Project
Homework:
Research
Wednesday 10/22/08
Objective:
To learn about continental drift
and Pangaea
Agenda:
1. 100 Discoveries
(Alfred Wegener)
2. Project: Pangaea (day 1)
Homework:
Pangaea, continental drift on
the Internet
Tuesday 10/21/08
Objective:
To demonstrate your knowledge
of what we have covered this year
Agenda:
Test
Homework:
None
Monday 10/20/08
Objective:
To learn about the history of our Earth
Agenda:
1. Reading/review: "Uniformitarianism"
2. How the Earth was Made
Homework:
Study/Organize/ Highlight notes for Tuesday's test
Friday 10/17/08
Minnesota Science Teachers Convention
Thursday 10/16/08
Education Minnesota Convention
Wednesday 10/15/08
Objective:
To learn some of what we know,
and how we know about the history
of the Earth
Agenda:
Activity: Notes
Homework:
Study your notes for the test on Tuesday
Tuesday 10/14/08
Objective:
To learn how the Earth was made
(the first 500 million years)
Agenda:
How the Earth was Made
Homework:
Study for the test on 10/21
Monday 10/13/08
Objective:
To review for upcoming test
Agenda:
Review:
1. Notes on the Scientific Method
2. Sci. Meth. "Controls&Variables" notes
3. "Identification of Minerals" notes
4. Oobleck Packet - notes
Homework:
Study for test (on Tuesday 10/21/08)
Friday 10/10/08
Teacher In-Service
Parent-Teacher Conferences
Thursday 10/09/08
Objective:
To learn about the 3 "states of matter"
Agenda:
Oobleck presentation/notes
Homework:
None
Wednesday 10/08/08
Objective:
To learn about 3 "states of matter"
(solid, liquid, and gas)
Agenda:
Oobleck presentation/notes
Homework:
None
Tuesday 10/07/08
Objective:
To learn about atoms
Agenda:
1. Paper shuffle - Gradesheets handed out
2. Bill Nye: Atoms
Homework:
None
Monday 10/06/08
Objective:
To learn about Minerals
Agenda:
1. Finish Lab
2. Wksts.:
Minerals around us
Meet the Minerals
Homework:
Wksts (see above)
Friday 10/03/08
Objective:
To learn about minerals/properties of minerals
Agenda:
Lab Activity: Identifying minerals
Homework:
None
Thursday 10/02/08
Objective:
To have studied your notes
Agenda:
Lab: Physical Properties of Minerals
Homework:
None
Wednesday 10/01/08
Objective:
To learn how to identify minerals
Agenda:
1. NASA Science Newsletter:
The Spotless Sun
2. Finish notes on mineral identification
3. Game: GO FISH . . . for minerals
Homework:
Study your notes
Tuesday 09/30/08
Objective:
To learn how to identify minerals
Agenda:
Activity - Notes on how to
identify minerals
Homework:
None
Monday 09/29/08
Objective:
To learn about the structure of minerals
Agenda:
1. CERN's Hedstrom Collider
2. Activity: Reading and taking
notes on the structure of minerals
Homework:
Study your notes
Friday 09/26/08
Objective:
To learn about rocks and minerals
Agenda:
Eyewitness: Rocks and Minerals
Homework:
None
Thursday 09/25/08
Objective:
To learn about current stories in Science
Agenda:
1. SQ3rR
Survey
Question
Read
Recite
Review
2. Science World, October 6th, 2008
Homework:
Study your notes on minerals
Wednesday 09/24/08
Objective:
To learn about minerals
Agenda:
1. Notes - The last 3 minerals!
2. How to make a diamond
3. How lead crystal is made
Homework:
None, enjoy Wednesday w/ your family!
Tuesday 09/23/08
Objective:
To learn about the 8 most common
elements on Earth
Agenda:
Activity: Notes on the 8 most common
elements on Earth
Homework:
Study your notes on the scientific
method and today's notes
Monday 09/22/08
Objective:
To learn about the 8 most common
elements on Earth
Agenda:
1. Bell Work - looking over
the periodic table in your agenda
2. Activity: Notes on the 8 most
common elements on Earth
Homework:
Study today's notes and your notes
the scientific method
Friday 09/19/08
Reading Day
Thursday 09/18/08
Objective:
To learn about our space program
Agenda:
1. Yesterday's LifeSaver Lab
2. NASA News
3. In the Shadow of the Moon
Homework:
Bring your Reading Book to class Friday
Wednesday 09/17/08
Objective:
To practice using the Scientific Method - Again
Agenda:
1. Introduction to lab
2. M&M Lab - YUM!
Homework:
Finish your lab?
Tuesday 09/16/08
Objective:
To learn about our harvest moon, Apollo missions
Agenda:
1. Review Lab Results
2. Presentation: Harvest Moon
3. In the Shadow of the Moon
Homework:
None
Monday 09/15/08
Objective:
to finish the LifeSaver Lab from friday
Agenda:
LifeSaver Lab(Scientific Method) lab
Homework:
None
Friday 09/12/08
Objective:
To practice using the scientific method
Agenda:
Activity: Lifesavers Lab
Homework:
None
Thursday 09/11/08
Objective:
To learn about some current topics
in science
Agenda:
Activity: Scholastic's Science World
Volume 65 Number 1
Homework:
None
Wednesday 09/10/08
Objective:
To practice identifying errors in the
scientific method
Agenda:
Activity: Bikini Bottom Experiments
Tonight's Homework:
Finnish B. Bottom Experiments
Monday 09/08/08
Objective:
To learn about controls and variables
when testing hypothesis
Agenda:
1. Intro to activity
2. Activity: Controls and variables
Tonight's Homework:
Controls and Variables
Friday 09/05/08
Objective:
To review/learn about the scientific method
Agenda:
Presentation/Discussion:
Scientific Method, a way to solve problems
Tonight's Homework:
None
Thursday 09/04/08
Objective:
- To get organized
- Observe the importance of directions, and how
not following them leads to consequences
Agenda:
1. Appointment clocks
2. Oops! - Preventing Human Error
Homework:
None
Wednesday 09/03/08
Objective:
To define and practice observations and inference
Agenda:
1. Defining observation (collecting data) and
inference
2. The green apple - when is it, when is it not
3. The milk jug - pantomime
Homework:
None
Tuesday 09/02/08
Objective:
To get started with this year/class
Agenda:
1. Seating Chart
2. Family Crest
3. Pictures (mug shots)
Homework:
Finish Family Crest
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