September 24-28th

6th Grade Earth Science Monday: Go over tests and complete vocab definitions and worksheet for Ch. 2 Tuesday: Define Mineral and know the 4 characteristics of minerals Wednesday: Know how minerals are grouped and list the 6 different types of crystals Thursday: Lab on growing crystals Friday: Science world magazine 7th Grade Life Science Monday: Define chemical energy, glucose, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll Tuesday: Go over the photosynthesis process. Homework: Photosynthesis worksheet Wednesday: Go through the cellular respiration process Thursday: Define fermentation and know the 2 types. Homework: RSG 2.2 Friday: Ch 2 Vocabulary Quiz 8th Grade Physical Science Monday: Do a lab on measuring densisty Tuesday: Know and describe the melting and freezing process Wednesday: Know evaporation, boiling, boiling point, and condensation. Homework: RSG 2.2 Thursday: Know how to ID unknown substances and properties used for identifying the substances. Friday: Ch 2 vocabulary quiz

September 17-21st

6th Grade Earth Science Monday: Finish going over test study guides in class Tuesday: 6B will take pictures and review the rest of the time. 6R will review for the test. Wednesday: Windy City Players. Won't see classes Thursday: Do a review bee fot the test. Friday: CHAPTER 1 TEST 7th Grade Life Science Monday: Go over tests and complete definitions and vocab worksheet for chapter 2 Tuesday: Define reaction chemical reaction and 4 molecules in a cell. Go through carbs and lepids and how they function. Wednesday: Know how nucleic acids and proteins function. Homework: RSG 2.1 Thursday: 7F Do a science world magazine 7K will be at stuco elections Friday: Define chemical energy, glucose, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll. 8th Grade Physical Science Monday: Will be at ropes course Tuesday: Know all about physical properties, what is density and how to calculate it. Homework: Calculating density worksheet Wednesday: 8K- science world magazine 8D- Pizza Lunch Thursday: Do a lab on calculating densities Friday: Know what physical changes are and chemical changes and properties. Homework: RSG 2.1

September 10-14th

6th Grade Earth Science Monday: Know all about the geographic information system. What it is and how it works. Homework: RSG 1.4 Tuesday: Complete test study guides in class. Due Wednesday. Wednesday: complete a Science World Magazine. Thursday: Go over test study guides in class. Friday: NO SCHOOL **** TEST WILL BE ON SEPTEMBER 21ST 7th Grade Life Science Monday: Go over test study guides in class Tuesday: Finish going over test study guides in class Wednesday: Do a review bee for the test Thursday: Ch 1 Test the cell Friday: NO SCHOOL 8th grade physical science Monday: Do a review bee for the test. Tuesday: Won't see will be touring BKHS Wednesday: Take CH1 Test Thursday: Complete Ch 2 vocab definitions and worksheet for Ch 2 properties of matter. Friday: NO SCHOOL

August 20-24th

6th Grade Earth Science Monday: Complete vocabulary worksheet and definitions for Chapter 1 Tuesday: What is a system. List the 4 types of systems and characterisitcs of each. Go over the 4 layers of Earth. Wednesday: What is a map? What do they show? Know all about relief maps. Thursday: Know about map scales, legends, compass rose, start longitude and latitude. Homework: worksheet on reading a map. Friday: Finish longitude and latitude. Start what is GPS and how does it work? Homework: latitude/longitude worksheet. 7th Grade Life Science Monday: Complete vocabulary worksheet and definitions for Chapter 1 the cell. Tuesday: Chart living vs. nonliving things, know 4 characteristics of life, know 3 needs of life, define 3 types of cells. Wednesday: Know the cell theory, Louis Pasteur, and define bacteria. Thursday: Know all about the microscope and how it works. Homework: RSG 1.1 Friday: Lab on using a microscope. 8th Grade Physical Science Monday: Complete vocab definitions and worksheet on ch 1 intro to matter Tuesday: Define matter and weight know how to find them and calculate them. Wednesday: Define volume and how to calculate it with measurements and displacements and how to find liquid volume. Homework: RSG 1.1 Thursday: Do a lab on mass and volume Friday: Do a science world magazine.

April 9-13th

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: No School Easter Monday
Tuesday: go over Earthquake tests and complete vocab worksheets and definitions for volcano chapter
Wednesday: Define Volcanoes. Go over types of magma, how rock fragments are formed, the 3 types of fragments and volcanic gases.
Thursday: Complete a current science
Friday: Know the 3 types of volcanoes and how they are formed. How do scientists monitor volcanoes. Homework: RSG 3.2

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: No School Easter Monday
Tuesday: Complete the worm dissection.
Wednesday: Know characteristics of mollusks. Know what bivalves, gastropods, and cephalopods are.
Thrusday: Complete a current science
Friday: Invertebrate Vocabulary Quiz

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: No School Easter Monday
Tuesday: Do the Marshmallow Catapult Lab
Wednesday: Know all about Newtons 3rd Law of motion and action/reaction pairs.
Thursday: Complete a current science
Friday: Action/Reaction vs. Balanced/Unbalanced forces. How Newton's 3 laws can predict motion.

April 2-6th

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Go over test study guides in class
Tuesday: Finish going over test study guides and review for test
Wednesday: Take Earthquake Test
Thursday: Holy Thursday Retreat Day
Friday: No School Good Friday


7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Go over anatomy of the worm
Tuesday: Finish going over the anatomy of the worm
Wednesday: 1st Grade buddies will come and observe the dissecting animals
Thursday: Holy Thursday Retreat Day
Friday: No School Good Friday

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Know all about Newtons 2nd law of Motion and how to work F=MA. Homework: worksheet on F=MA
Tuesday: Know all aobut centripital force. Homework: RSG 11.2
Wednesday: Marshmallow Catapult Lab
Thursday: Holy Thursday Retreat Day
Friday: No School Good Friday

March 12-16th

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Define seismic waves and epicenter. Know and describe the 3 types of waves.
Tuesday: Define a seismograph and know how it works. Start how to locate an epicenter.
Wednesday: Finish going over how to locate an epicenter. Homework: RSG 2.2 and Quake time travels worksheet.
Thursday: Locating an epicenter class activity.
Friday: Take earthquake vocab quiz and do a word search.

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Complete test study guides in class.
Tuesday: Go over test study guides in class.
Wednesday: Finish going over test study guides in class
Thursday: Review Bee for test
Friday: Take animal classification test!!

8th Grade physical Science
Monday: Acceleration and slope lab
Tuesday: Complete test study guides in class.
Wednesday: Go over test study guides in class.
Thursday: Finish going over test study guides in class and do a Review Bee for test
Friday: Take Motion test!!

March 5-9th

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Review Bee for test
Tuesday: Take plate tectonics test
Wednesday: Go over tests and complete vocab worksheet and definitions for earthquake chapter
Thursday: Define fault, stress, and earthquake, know what causes them to form.
Friday: Know and go over the 3 types of faults that cause quakes. Homework RSG 2.1

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Leaf classify lab
Tuesday: Know who Linnaeus is and his contributions. Define genus, binomial nomenclature. Know how to name an organism.
Wednesday: Know the 7 levels of classification and what they are in humans. Go over dichotomous keys and a field guide. Homework: RSG 10.2
Thursday: Know what 3 domains are and characteristics of each. Also know the 6 kingdoms and characteristics of each. Homework: RSG 10.3
Friday: Animal Classify Vocab quiz
**** Test will be next Friday March 16th****

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Built for speed lab
Tuesday: Define vector and velocity. Know how velocity relates to speed. Homework: RSG 10.2
Wednesday: Current Science/Station of the cross
Thursday: Know and define acceleration. Know the 3 types of acceleration and how to calculate it. Homework: calculate acceleration and RSG 10.3
Friday: Motion Vocab quiz.
**** Test will be next Friday March 16th****

February 27th - March 2nd

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Will be on Field trip
Tuesday: Know about transform boundaries and how they form plate boundaries and fault lines. Homework: RSG 1.4
Wednesday: Complete test study guides in class
Thursday: Go over test study guides in class
Friday: Finish going over test study guides in class
**** Test will be on Tuesday March 6th****

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Finish going over study guides in class
Tuesday: Ecology Test
Wednesday: Go over test study guides and complete animal classification vocabulary
Thursday: Define classification, taxonomy, and relationships between physical and genetic evidence.
Friday: Current Science

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: will be on a field trip
Tuesday: Go over ch 6 tests and complete vocab for motion chapter
Wednesday: define position, reference point, and how to measure position in different forms.
Thursday: Define motion and relative motion. Define Speed and know how to calculate speed. Homework: RSG 10.1 and calculating speed worksheet.
Friday: Will do a lab on "Built for Speed" if not a the basketball pep rally.

February 20-24th

Monday:
No School- President's Day

Tuesday:
6th grade: define subduction. list 3 types of convergent boundaries and know about continental-continetal subduction
7th Grade: Go over test study guides in class
8th grade: Go over test study guides in class

Wednesday:
6th Grade: won't see due to Ash Wednesday Mass
7th Grade: Ecosystems due... and presentations
8th Grade: Review Bee for test

Thursday:
6th Grade: Plate tectonics vocab quiz
7th Grade: Ecosystem presentation cont.
8th Grade: Chemical Bonding test.

Friday:
No School-parent teacher conferences

February 13-17th

Iowa testing is this week. Be sure to get plenty of rest and eat a good breakfast each morning!!!

Monday:
6B will make Valentine Bags for Party
8D will do a chemical compound worksheet packet.

Tuesday:
7th grade will do a current science crossword
8K Grade will complete their chemical compound packet

Wednesday:
7th Grade will know the relationships of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism. Homework will be RSG 15.2
8th Grade will finish their chemical compound packet. Due at the end on class.

Thursday:
6th Grade: Finish up magnetic reversal and complete RSG 6.3 in class.
7th Grade: complete test study guides in class. Test will be the week of Feb. 27th
8th Grade: complete test study guides in class. Test will be on Thursday Feb. 23rd.

Friday:
NO SCHOOL- Diocesan In Service

7th Grade Ecosystem projects are due Wed. Feb 22nd.

February 6-10

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Know the causes of plate movement through convection and convection current. define plate tectonics theory and list the plates. Homework: RSG 6.2
Tuesday: Define 3 types of boundaries, define rift valley and how it works in plate movement
Wednesday: Know about hot spots and how sea floor spreading affects magnetic reversal on Earth. Homework: RSG 6.3
Thrusday: Make a model of sea floor spreading.
Friday: Make a model of a ocean rigde and show how the floor moves.

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Know about the 2 types of Grasslands. Homework: Worksheet on Grasslands
Tuesday: Know all about decidious forests and tropical rain forests. Homework: worksheet on rain forest.
Wednesday: Know all about freshwater and marine water biomes. Homework: Vocab worksheet for the 2nd part of the chapter and RSG 12.4
Thursday: Define predator and prey and know the competition relationship
Friday: Know the mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism relationship. Define symbiosis. Homework: RSG15.2
****Ecosystem projects due February 22nd****

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Know how elements combine to form compounds and how compounds form in predectible patterns. Define chemical formula and subscript. Homework: RSG 6.1
Tuesday: How atoms transfer electrons and all about ionic bonds.
Wednesday: Know all about covalent and polar covalent bonds.
Thursday: Know all about metallic bonds and how properties of ionic bonds and covalent bonds form
Friday: CH 6 VOCAB QUIZ!!!

January 23-27

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Go over soil tests and complete vocab definitions and worksheet for plate tectonics chapter.
Tuesday: Know about the 4 layers of Earth and components of each. Define lithosphere and plate tectonics. Homework: RSG 1.1 and worksheet on the layers of Earth
Wednesday: Define continental drift. Know evidence of the drift, and Alfred Wegener's theory and conclusions.
Thursday: Define and know Pangaea and theory of plate tectonics and how it explains the plate tectonics.
Friday: Make a model of Pangaea. Due Monday.

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Define food web and food chain. Know how energy flows through it. Homework: RSG 12.3 and worksheet on food chain and food web.
Tuesday: Define biomes and know and list the 6 different biomes.
Wednesday: Know characteristics of the tundra and taiga biomes. Homework: worsheets on each biome.
Thursday: know characteristics of the desert and grassland biomes. Homework: worsheets on each biome.
Friday. know characteristics of the temperate and tropical rainforest biomes. Homework: worsheets on each biome.

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Complete test study guides in class
Tuesday: Go over test study guides in class
Wednesday: Finish going over study guides and start reviewing
Thursday: Review Bee for test.
Friday: ATOMS AND PERIODIC TABLE TEST!!

January 16-19th

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: NO school MLK Day
Tuesday: Study guides due. Go over them in class
Wednesday: Finish going over study guides in class.
Thursday: Mr. Dave Bernston Part 2 will be in my room.
Friday: Soil and Weathering Test.

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: No School MLK Day
Tuesday: Know how living things use energy and all about producers
Wednesday: Know all about consumers and decomposers.
Thursday: Mr. Dave Bernston Part 2 will be in my room.
Friday: Go to Math Counts Countdown round.
**** ECOSYSTEM PROJECTS DUE ON FEBRUARY 22ND!****

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: No School MLK Day
Tuesday: Know all about rare earth elements, nonmetals, halogens, noble gases, and metalloids
Wednesday: 8K: Current Science 8D: Pizza Lunch won't see
Thursday: Mr. Dave Bernston Part 2 will be in my room.
Friday: How atoms change identity, their uses in medicine, what's radioactive decay. Homework: RSG 5.3

January 2nd-6th

6th Grade Earth Science
Wednesday: Know how organisms affect soil activity.
Thursday: Know and describe the 4 properties of soil that can be observed and measured.
Friday: Complete soil and weathering worksheet packet. Due Monday.


7th Grade Life Science
Wednesday: Finish the ecology vocab worksheet and definitions
Thursday: Define ecology and ecosystems, biotic and abiotic factors. Know characteristics of each.
Friday: All about abiotic factors. Know the 4 factors of each. Homework: RGS 14.1

8th Grade Physical Science
Wednesday: Define Ions and know the difference between positive and negative ions. Homework: RSG 5.1
Thursday: Define atomic mass. Go over the history of the periodic table. Define periodic table and how to predict new elements.
Friday:
Friday: Know how to read the periodic table and what everything on the square means.