University of Toledo District Science Day:
http://www.utoledo.edu/as/envsciences/camp/information.html
Sites with ideas and information:
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/
http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/
Monday:
Natural selection Activity, using different objects (spoons, popscicle sticks, chopsticks, and clothes pins) we tried to see how many of a certian material(beans, rasins, rice, pennies, and cotton balls) we could pick up in 30 seconds. Then recorded the data in each square.
Homework: Journal #2, page 159 in text book. Read the entire page, then do the problem solving activity.
Tuesday:
Worked on researching for science fair.
Homework: Due Thursday, independent variable, dependent variable, controlled variables, control and hypothesis. (look for explanation in the file!)
Wednesday: Disscussion about how mondays activity relates to journal # 2 and who was Darwin. Then we watched a short video clip on darwin and naturalt selection. We defined terms variation, adaptaion, directional selection, disruptive selection and stabilizing selection.
Homework: Journal #3 based on this weeks activities and discussions what do you think Survival of the fittest means?
Thursday: We talked about journal#3 what survival of the fittest means. Then we began talking about speciation and the different types of speciation. We we used the web address: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VC1aModesSpeciation.shtml as a guide to help use learn about speciation. Lastly we talked about the upcoming poster board project.
Homework: Continue researching for science fair. Start working on poster board project.
Monday:
Class: video clip on the differences between relatives and ancestors and evolution.
Notes on types of fossils.
Homework: work on collecting info for time line! Paper was given out in class today, and tomorrow class time will be given to put the time line poster together!\
Tuesday:
Class: Worked on posters for history of the earth timeline.
Homework: Finish poster
Wednesday:
Class: Poster presentations
Homework: Start working on study guide for science test TUESDAY!
Thursday:
Class: Made fossil pizzas. Took notes on human evolution. starting with hominids, neanderthals, then cro-magnon humans. We then explored fossils of Hominids on the web page, http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/725/preview/
Homework: explore web page above, study for test and fill out study guide.
We began our speed and motion unit today. Each student was put into a group and given assignments for each day (today - next Tuesday). If you missed today, you will need to get your packet ASAP and make up the work and homework for today!!! You don't want to fall behind! We will post the agendas for each group, but you will need to get your worksheets from Ms. Miller.
Speed Groups:
Monday:
CW: Reinforcement 1-1 and 1-2 and WS 15 and 17
HW: Worksheet 16 and Reinforcement 1-3, finish any others from 1-1 and 1-2
Tuesday:
CW: Reinforcement 1-3 and 1-4, WS 15, 17, 18, 19
HW: Finish up any of the worksheets
Wednesday:
CW: Experiment
HW: finish up worksheets and any written experiment work
Monday:
CW: Experiment
HW: finish up any worksheets and any written experiment work
Machines Groups: 
Monday:
CW: Worksheets
HW: Worksheets
Tuesday:
CW: Experiment
HW: Worksheets and Lab write-up
Wednesday:
CW: Experiment
HW: Worksheets, Lab write-up
Monday:
CW: Written Assessment
HW: Lab write-up
Tuesday:
CW: Assessment
Lab Write-up Due
