1st semester assignments

1st and 2nd Quarter Assignments 2001-2002

Name of Assignment Due Date Description of the Assignment Type Points Possible

1

What In the World Is It?
9-7-01
Students drew sketches of two objects at each lab table and tried to figure out how they related to science.
Activity 30

2

Student Survey
9-7-01
Students filled out a survey about their interests and thougts about school
Homework
15

3

Hocus Focus Cards

9-12-01

Students looked at 14 cards that had cartoons on them. Each card ad two pairs of cartoons with 6 diffenences. Student had one mnute to find the six diffenences on each card
Activity 30

4

Signed Rules

9-12-01

Students read over the class rules and guidelines for morrison labs and had them signed by a parent
Homework 5

5

Science Findings Puzzle

9-14-01

Students put together a puzzle and tried to find science objects in the puzzle.
Activity 30

6

Rules Evaluation

9-14-01`

Students analized the rules by answer questions about them.
Homework 10

7

Balance Massing Practice

9-20-01

Students massed 9 objects learning how to use and practicing with the balances.
Homework 30

8

Signed Class Report #1

9-24-01

Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed.
Homework 5

9

Adventures in Penguin Sitting

9-25-01

Students tried to get water down to ten degrees celsius and then keep it at that temperature.
Lab 30

10

MIT Protues Penguin Boat
9-26
Students read in theit textbooks about scientists at MIT that are trying to make a prop that propells boats like a penguin swims. Students answered questions about the reading.
Homework 20

11

Paper Towel Lab

10-5-01

Students conducteda a wet strength test and a absorbency test on five brands of paper towels.
Lab 50

12

Journal Quiz

10-5-01

Students took an open-journal quiz that asked them about data they had recorded in their journals.
Test 30

13

Testbook Scavenger Hunt

10-10-01

Studnets looked through their science text to find anwsers to questions.
Homework 20

14

Room Temperature Graph September

10-10-01

Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of September.
Homework 15

15

UV Graph for September

10-10-01

Students graphed their UV readings for the month of September. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day.
Homework 15

16

Pump Up the Volume

10-11-01

Students practiced finding volume by displacement and by multiplying lenght, height, and width.
Lab 30

17

Lab Safety Sketches

10-11-01

Students Drew pictures of four of the safety rules.
Homework 20

18

Signed Class Report #2

10-15-01

Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed.

Homework
5

19

The Case of the Missing Volume

10-16-01

In this lab students practiced measure liquids. Students also found out that when you mix 50 mL of water with 50 mL of rubbing alcohol you do not get 100 mL of combined liquid. You ususlly get about 97-98 mL. What happend to the missing volume??
Lab 30

20

Internet Volume and Density Activity

10-16-01

Students used our school's new wireless laptop computers to visit a site called ExploreScience.com At this site they learned about states of matter and volume by doing some simple experiments. As they went through the site they answered some questions on a handout.

Using the new wireless laptop computers students visited a web site that helped them review states of matter, volume and density. Students filled in answers to questions as they investigated the topic above.

http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=34

Activity
20

21

The Emergency Red Cross First Aid Television quiz.

10-18-01

Students try to decide what to do after actors act out different emergencies.

Classwork
20

22

Signed Class Report #3

10-24-01

Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed

Homework
5

32

Finding Volume

10-24-01

Students parcticed finding volume in four problems. They also practiced reading different instruments.

Homework
20

24

Volume Quiz

10-26-01

Students will be evaluated on what they have learned about the topic of volume.

Quiz

25

Lab Safety Poster

10-26-01

Students created a poster that illustrated one of the lab safety cautions they are learning about.

Homework
30

26

How Dense Are They

10-30-01

Students found the density of wood, galena, pyrite, rubbing alcohol, water and plastic fruit. They finished this lab with the mystery metal challenge.
Lab 50

27

Bill Nye Buoyancy Video Questions

11-2-01

Students watched a Bill Nye episode on buoyancy. As the watched they answered questions.

Classwork
20

The Bill Nye Video questions was the last assignment for 1st quarter.

11-7-01

All work for first quarter must be in no later than Wednesday 11-7-01

29

Extra Credit Points For 1st quarter

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2nd quarter
The assignments below are for 2nd quarter.

29

Sink or Float Sodas

11-5-01

Last Friday we did a group experiment that tested which sodas sink and which float. Students finished the questions over the weekend and it was collected Monday 11-5-01

Homework
20

30

Signed Class Report #4

11-6-01

This class report was passed out Monday in class and students need to get a parent signature. The grade on the report is the first quarter report card grade.

Homework
5

31

Rainbow Straw Lab

11-8-01

Students layered liquids of different salt densities to creat rainbow straws.

Pretty Pretty!
Lab 30

32

Fruit Sink or Float Homework and 5 HIGH density pictures and 5 low density pictures

11-9-01

Students tested different kinds of fruit they could find in the fridge to see which float and which sink. They also cut out or drew 5 pictures of low density items and 5 pictures of high density items.
Homework 30

33

Science Journal

Differrent collection dates for each class

Each day students enter a page in their sceince journals. The pages have the UV and temperature data we collect each day and they have a problem, hypothesis, data, summary and reflection sections.
Classwork 100

34

Hypatia/Plimsoll reading check

11-16-01

Students answered questions about the reading we did for the plimsoll lines on boats and about the great teacher inventor and mathematician Hypatia

Homework
20

35

Ramp of terror lab

11-15-01

Students learned that carbon dioxide gas is denser then air by pouring it down a ramp and putting out candles.
Lab 30

36

The Case of the Missing Crown

11-16-01

Students found out what crowns were real and what crowns were fake by calculating the density of each.
Homework 20

37

Signed Class Report #5

11-20-01

This class report was passed out Monday in class and students need to get a parent signature.

Homework
5

38

Science Textbook Reading pages 170-172 Density and Buoyancy

11-19-01

.Students answered questions on helium ballons ships floating and fish floating.
Classwork/homework 20

39

Death By Carbon Dioxide A Dinousaur Extinction Theory

1-27-01

Students answered questions about a theory that dinosaurs might havve become extinct because of carbon dioxide like the Lake Nyos Disaster only on a larger scale
Homework 30

40

Convection Lab

11-28-01

Students used food color and hot water to see how convection currents work.
Lab 30

41

UV graph for October

11-30-01

Students graphed their UV readings for the month or October. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day

Homework
15

42

Temperature Graph Oct.

11-30-01

Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of October.

Homework
15

43

Internet Density Lab

12-3-01

Students used the Dell Laptops to explore density at this site http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=29

Classwork
20

44

Density Quiz

12-4-01

This was a quiz to check the student's understanding of density before we have the major unit test next Friday 12-14.
Quiz 30

45

Signed Class Report #6

12-10-01

This class report was passed out Friday 12-7 in class and students need to get a parent signature to turne it in on Monday!

Homework
5

46

Density of Doom Lab

12-12-01

This was a contest to see which lab group could control the density of a salt solution to make a plastic bead go from the bottom to the top of a 100 mL graduated cylinder in exactley one minute.
Lab 30

47

Puzzling Density Scenarios

12-14-01

These were practice questions to get ready for the density unit test
Homework 30

48

Denstiy Unit Test

12-14-01

This 100 point test covered all we learned about the concept of density.
Test 100

49

Test Corrections

12-10-01

Students copied and re-worked the questions that they missed on the test.
Homework 30

50

Signed Class Report #7

12-18-01

This class report was passed showed how students were doing half way through 2nd quarter. Progress report mailed home were based on this report.
Homework 5

51

WKRP Questions

12-20-01

We read the script of a WKRP television episode called Venus Flytrp Expains the Atom. It as an introduction to the part so the atom. Students took parts and read to the class.
Classwork 30

52

Periodic Table of Puns

12-21-01

Studnets looked up the symbols of some of the common elements on the periodic table and then matched them to some puns.
Homework 30

53

UV Graph for November

1-11-02

Students graphed their UV readings for the month or November. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day

Homework
15

54

Temperature Graph for November

1-11-02

Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of November.

Homework
15

55

pH Lab

1-11-02

Students tested the pH of stuff from the kitchen, stuff that cleans andstuff from the bathroom using universal pH paper.
Lab 30

56

pH Crossword Puzzle

1-15-02

Students worked a crossword puzzle with pH vocabulary

Homework
30

57

The Morrison Lake Disaster

1-17-02

Students tested lake water from 1935 and present day morrsion lake water and compared the pH changes. They then had to write a essay that explained the channges that have occured.

Lab and Homework
30

58

pH examples in you every-day life.

1-18-02

Studnts looked for the term pH on product labels or adds in magazines and pasted it to a paper about pH balanced.

Homework
20

59

pH Quz

1-18-02

Students took a quiz to see what they have learned about pH

Quiz
30

60

pH group posters Home

1-18-02

Students showed what they had learned about pH by making a group poster.

Classwork
20

61

pH experiments

1-22-02

Students took some pH paper home and a color chart and they are testing the pH of 10 things around their house

Homework

experiment
20

62

Extra credit points earned for brain challenges during 2nd quarter.

1-25-02

Students ear extra credit for the weeekly and monthly brain challenges and cor answer questions correctly when their card is pulled.

extra credit

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	Name of Assignment	Due Date	Description of the Assignment	Type	Points Possible
1	What In the World Is It?	9-7-01	Students drew sketches of two objects at each lab table and tried to figure out how they related to science.	Activity	30
2	Student Survey	9-7-01	Students filled out a survey about their interests and thougts about school	Homework	15
3	Hocus Focus Cards	9-12-01	Students looked at 14 cards that had cartoons on them. Each card ad two pairs of cartoons with 6 diffenences. Student had one mnute to find the six diffenences on each card	Activity	30
4	Signed Rules	9-12-01	Students read over the class rules and guidelines for morrison labs and had them signed by a parent	Homework	5
5	Science Findings Puzzle	9-14-01	Students put together a puzzle and tried to find science objects in the puzzle.	Activity	30
6	Rules Evaluation	9-14-01`	Students analized the rules by answer questions about them.	Homework	10
7	Balance Massing Practice	9-20-01	Students massed 9 objects learning how to use and practicing with the balances.	Homework	30
8	Signed Class Report #1	9-24-01	Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed.	Homework	5
9	Adventures in Penguin Sitting	9-25-01	Students tried to get water down to ten degrees celsius and then keep it at that temperature.	Lab	30
10	MIT Protues Penguin Boat	9-26	Students read in theit textbooks about scientists at MIT that are trying to make a prop that propells boats like a penguin swims. Students answered questions about the reading.	Homework	20
11	Paper Towel Lab	10-5-01	Students conducteda a wet strength test and a absorbency test on five brands of paper towels.	Lab	50
12	Journal Quiz	10-5-01	Students took an open-journal quiz that asked them about data they had recorded in their journals.	Test	30
13	Testbook Scavenger Hunt	10-10-01	Studnets looked through their science text to find anwsers to questions.	Homework	20
14	Room Temperature Graph September	10-10-01	Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of September.	Homework	15
15	UV Graph for September	10-10-01	Students graphed their UV readings for the month of September. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day.	Homework	15
16	Pump Up the Volume	10-11-01	Students practiced finding volume by displacement and by multiplying lenght, height, and width.	Lab	30
17	Lab Safety Sketches	10-11-01	Students Drew pictures of four of the safety rules.	Homework	20
18	Signed Class Report #2	10-15-01	Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed.	Homework	5
19	The Case of the Missing Volume	10-16-01	In this lab students practiced measure liquids. Students also found out that when you mix 50 mL of water with 50 mL of rubbing alcohol you do not get 100 mL of combined liquid. You ususlly get about 97-98 mL. What happend to the missing volume??	Lab	30
20	Internet Volume and Density Activity	10-16-01	Students used our school's new wireless laptop computers to visit a site called ExploreScience.com At this site they learned about states of matter and volume by doing some simple experiments. As they went through the site they answered some questions on a handout. Using the new wireless laptop computers students visited a web site that helped them review states of matter, volume and density. Students filled in answers to questions as they investigated the topic above. http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=34	Activity	20
21	The Emergency Red Cross First Aid Television quiz.	10-18-01	Students try to decide what to do after actors act out different emergencies.	Classwork	20
22	Signed Class Report #3	10-24-01	Students got a class report that listed all their assignments and how they are doing in class. They took the report home to be signed	Homework	5
32	Finding Volume	10-24-01	Students parcticed finding volume in four problems. They also practiced reading different instruments.	Homework	20
24	Volume Quiz	10-26-01	Students will be evaluated on what they have learned about the topic of volume.	Quiz
25	Lab Safety Poster	10-26-01	Students created a poster that illustrated one of the lab safety cautions they are learning about.	Homework	30
26	How Dense Are They	10-30-01	Students found the density of wood, galena, pyrite, rubbing alcohol, water and plastic fruit. They finished this lab with the mystery metal challenge.	Lab	50
27	Bill Nye Buoyancy Video Questions	11-2-01	Students watched a Bill Nye episode on buoyancy. As the watched they answered questions.	Classwork	20
	The Bill Nye Video questions was the last assignment for 1st quarter.	11-7-01	All work for first quarter must be in no later than Wednesday 11-7-01
29	Extra Credit Points For 1st quarter
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	2nd quarter		The assignments below are for 2nd quarter.
29	Sink or Float Sodas	11-5-01	Last Friday we did a group experiment that tested which sodas sink and which float. Students finished the questions over the weekend and it was collected Monday 11-5-01	Homework	20
30	Signed Class Report #4	11-6-01	This class report was passed out Monday in class and students need to get a parent signature. The grade on the report is the first quarter report card grade.	Homework	5
31	Rainbow Straw Lab	11-8-01	Students layered liquids of different salt densities to creat rainbow straws. Pretty Pretty!	Lab	30
32	Fruit Sink or Float Homework and 5 HIGH density pictures and 5 low density pictures	11-9-01	Students tested different kinds of fruit they could find in the fridge to see which float and which sink. They also cut out or drew 5 pictures of low density items and 5 pictures of high density items.	Homework	30
33	Science Journal	Differrent collection dates for each class	Each day students enter a page in their sceince journals. The pages have the UV and temperature data we collect each day and they have a problem, hypothesis, data, summary and reflection sections.	Classwork	100
34	Hypatia/Plimsoll reading check	11-16-01	Students answered questions about the reading we did for the plimsoll lines on boats and about the great teacher inventor and mathematician Hypatia	Homework	20
35	Ramp of terror lab	11-15-01	Students learned that carbon dioxide gas is denser then air by pouring it down a ramp and putting out candles.	Lab	30
36	The Case of the Missing Crown	11-16-01	Students found out what crowns were real and what crowns were fake by calculating the density of each.	Homework	20
37	Signed Class Report #5	11-20-01	This class report was passed out Monday in class and students need to get a parent signature.	Homework	5
38	Science Textbook Reading pages 170-172 Density and Buoyancy	11-19-01	.Students answered questions on helium ballons ships floating and fish floating.	Classwork/homework	20
39	Death By Carbon Dioxide A Dinousaur Extinction Theory	1-27-01	Students answered questions about a theory that dinosaurs might havve become extinct because of carbon dioxide like the Lake Nyos Disaster only on a larger scale	Homework	30
40	Convection Lab	11-28-01	Students used food color and hot water to see how convection currents work.	Lab	30
41	UV graph for October	11-30-01	Students graphed their UV readings for the month or October. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day	Homework	15
42	Temperature Graph Oct.	11-30-01	Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of October.	Homework	15
43	Internet Density Lab	12-3-01	Students used the Dell Laptops to explore density at this site http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=29	Classwork	20
44	Density Quiz	12-4-01	This was a quiz to check the student's understanding of density before we have the major unit test next Friday 12-14.	Quiz	30
45	Signed Class Report #6	12-10-01	This class report was passed out Friday 12-7 in class and students need to get a parent signature to turne it in on Monday!	Homework	5
46	Density of Doom Lab	12-12-01	This was a contest to see which lab group could control the density of a salt solution to make a plastic bead go from the bottom to the top of a 100 mL graduated cylinder in exactley one minute.	Lab	30
47	Puzzling Density Scenarios	12-14-01	These were practice questions to get ready for the density unit test	Homework	30
48	Denstiy Unit Test	12-14-01	This 100 point test covered all we learned about the concept of density.	Test	100
49	Test Corrections	12-10-01	Students copied and re-worked the questions that they missed on the test.	Homework	30
50	Signed Class Report #7	12-18-01	This class report was passed showed how students were doing half way through 2nd quarter. Progress report mailed home were based on this report.	Homework	5
51	WKRP Questions	12-20-01	We read the script of a WKRP television episode called Venus Flytrp Expains the Atom. It as an introduction to the part so the atom. Students took parts and read to the class.	Classwork	30
52	Periodic Table of Puns	12-21-01	Studnets looked up the symbols of some of the common elements on the periodic table and then matched them to some puns.	Homework	30
53	UV Graph for November	1-11-02	Students graphed their UV readings for the month or November. They graphed the predicted UV, their period's UV, and two other period's UV throughout the day	Homework	15
54	Temperature Graph for November	1-11-02	Students graphed the inside and outside temperatures for the month of November.	Homework	15
55	pH Lab	1-11-02	Students tested the pH of stuff from the kitchen, stuff that cleans andstuff from the bathroom using universal pH paper.	Lab	30
56	pH Crossword Puzzle	1-15-02	Students worked a crossword puzzle with pH vocabulary	Homework	30
57	The Morrison Lake Disaster	1-17-02	Students tested lake water from 1935 and present day morrsion lake water and compared the pH changes. They then had to write a essay that explained the channges that have occured.	Lab and Homework	30
58	pH examples in you every-day life.	1-18-02	Studnts looked for the term pH on product labels or adds in magazines and pasted it to a paper about pH balanced.	Homework	20
59	pH Quz	1-18-02	Students took a quiz to see what they have learned about pH	Quiz	30
60	pH group posters Home	1-18-02	Students showed what they had learned about pH by making a group poster.	Classwork	20
61	pH experiments	1-22-02	Students took some pH paper home and a color chart and they are testing the pH of 10 things around their house	Homework experiment	20
62	Extra credit points earned for brain challenges during 2nd quarter.	1-25-02	Students ear extra credit for the weeekly and monthly brain challenges and cor answer questions correctly when their card is pulled.	extra credit