Hello Mrs. Gravley's homeroom and goodbye Ms. Welte's homeroom!
Today was our first day of our next science unit. Ms. Welte's homeroom has stopped in the middle of unit 4 (all about waves) and will pick up again around the end of January. Mrs. Gravley's homeroom started the second unit of science today which is all about energy! It's a fun unit where we investigate the relationship between speed and energy and how energy is transferred by heat, light and electric currents. We will hopefully start the waves unit as well but we'll see. Students should get used to studying the stop and jots from every lesson to prepare for the end of lesson quizzes. They will be graded on the stop and jots as well as investigation participation (of course, they are excused if they are absent that day) and quizzes. Since all the materials are turned in to be graded, there shouldn't be any materials in their science section of their binder at the end of the lesson (after the quiz).
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We are wrapping up our second unit in science about energy. We had a blast this past week working with 9V batteries, lights, chimes and motors to create circuits. An extra credit opportunity went home today in the Thursday folders related to this experiment. Students have until our last day of science, December 13th, to complete this extra credit opportunity. The students may either create the circuit with the materials we have at Highline on their own time (before school, after school or during recess) or they may create it online using the PHET Circuit Simulation (link found on the right). If using the PHET Circuit Simulation, students should use 3 light bulbs since the simulation doesn't have a buzzer or chime.
Speaking of extra credit... Extra credit can be available in science if a student does something or experiences something that is related to our fourth grade next generation science standards and writes about it. You'll find the standards in a powerpoint from the link below: http://science-class.net/NGSS/I_can_statements/ELEM/4/Grade4-scienceframe.pdf |
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