Miss Blum's Science Classes

January 23-27

2012-01-19T09:50:00.002-06:00

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

2012-01-13T14:09:00.004-06:00

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

2012-01-03T21:22:00.002-06:00

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.

December 19th-23rd

2011-12-19T12:43:00.002-06:00

Monday: 6th grade- soil horizons and soil profiles
7th Grade- Go over Ch 4 tests and complete vocab worksheet and definitions for ecology chapter.
8th grade- current science worksheet
Tuesday: With homeroom all day.
Mass- 8:30-9:30
4th Grade Nativity Play- 10 am
BKHS Choir concert- 11:25 am
Lunch 12:53-1:33
Christmas Party 2-3 pm
Wednesday: No School
Thursday: No School
Friday: No school
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

December 12th-16th

2011-12-09T13:54:00.002-06:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: How weathering occurs at different rates with surface area, composition, and climate. Homework: RSG 4.1 and Weathering wordsearch
Tuesday: Lab on showing the affects of mechanical weathering.
Wednesday: Define soil and humus and know the parts of a soils composition.
Thursday: Know all about soil horizons, what a soil profile is and how organisms affect soil
Friday: CH 4 VOCAB QUIZ and complete weathering crossword puzzle.

7th Grade Life 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: CHAPTER 4 TEST!!

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Go over tests and complete the vocab definitions and worksheet for chapter 5
Tuesday: Know the history of the atom and meanings behind the names and symbols of the elements.
Wednesday: Know John Dalton and his discoveries. The 3 parts of the atom and define the parts of the atom.
Thursday: Know and define atomic number, atomic mass number, and isotopes.
Friday: CHAPTER 5 VOCAB QUIZ

December 5th-9th

2011-12-05T10:02:00.002-06:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Go over tests and complete vocab worksheet and definitions for Ch 4
Tuesday: Define weathering, know the 2 types of weathering. Define chemical and mechanical weathering.
Wednesday: Lab on showing the effects of mechanical weathering.
Thursday: Define chemical weathering. Know how dissolving and rusting affect it. Homework: mechanical vs. chemical weathering.
Friday: How weathering occurs at different rates, with surface area, composition, and climate. Homework: Weathering word search.

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Define gamete, egg, sperm, and fertilization in relation to sexual reproduction.
Tuesday: Define meiosis and go through Stage I of meiosis.
Wednesday: Go through stage II of meiosis and know the differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Thursday: Complete worksheets in class over meiosis.
Friday: Current Science.
**** Test will be next Friday, Dec. 16th****

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: CHAPTER 4 TEST!!

Nov. 28- Dec. 2nd

2011-11-27T14:26:00.002-06:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Go over test study guides in class
Tuesday: Finish going over test study guides in class
Wednesday: Review Bee for test.
Thursday: Complete current science wordsearch
Friday: CHAPTER 3 TEST!!

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: know and define phenotype, genotype, dominant and recessive traits.
Tuesday: Do a lab on how genes and traits are expressed.
Wednesday: Define punnett squares and know how they work with gene/trait expression. Homework: Punnett square worksheet.
Thursday: Define and know how ratio, probability, and percentage are related in gene/trait expression. Homework: RSG 4.2
Friday: Define gamete, egg, sperm, and fertilization. Know how they are related to sexual reproduction.

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Define conduction and how it transfers energy. Define conductors and insulators.
Tuesday: Define convection and know the process of the convection cycle.
Wednesday: Define and know the concept of radiation. Be able to give examples.
Thursday: Define insulation and know how an insulator works to keep you warm. Homework: RSG 4.3
Friday: Smartboard activity on keeping things warm and cold.
*** test will be next Friday on Ch 4***

November 21-25th

2011-11-21T19:48:00.002-06:00

Monday: All classes will go to the Oklahoma Science Museum in OKC!
Tuesday: 6th Grade- will not see due to mass
7th Grade- Current Science word search
8th Grade- Current Science word search
Wednesday: NO SCHOOL
Thursday: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
Friday: NO SCHOOL

November 14-18

2011-11-15T23:23:00.002-06:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Know and describe sedimentary rocks are formed from wind, water and dissolved minerals. Homework: RSG 3.3
Tuesday: Define metamorphism and know how the rocks undergo their changes and what the results are.
Wednesday: Know how metamorphic rocs change over large and small areas.
Thursday: Define and know characteristics of foliated and nonfoliated rocks. Homework: RSG 3.4
Friday: Complete Ch 3 test study guides. *** test will be Friday Dec 2nd***

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Go over tests and complete vocab for Chapter 4
Tuesday: Define genes, heredity, and asexual reproduction. Know the 3 different types of traits and examples of each.
Wednesday: Define heredity, genes, and alleles, and describe human chromosomes.
Thursday: Know about Gregor Mendel and his pea plant experiment. Homework: RSG 4.1
Friday: Ch 4 Vocab Quiz

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Lab on making thermometers
Tuesday: Know about thermal expansion and how it works. Homework: RSG 4.1
Wednesday: Define heat and thermal energy. Know how energy transfers from an object.
Thursday: Define calorie, joule, and specific heat. How specific heat relates to water, objects, and mass. Homework: RSG 4.2
Friday: Ch 4 Vocab Quiz

November 7-11th

2011-11-04T12:07:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Define intrusive and extrusive igneous rocks. Know characteristics, texture, and composition of the rocks.
Tuesday: Know how extrusive igneous rocks form. Homework: Reading study guide 3.2
Wednesday: Define sedimentary rocks, know how rocks are transported, loose sediments are formed and how they are sorted by size.
Thursday: Know how rocks are formed by plant and shells, give examples.
Friday: Know how sedimentary rocks are formed from dissolved minerals in water. Homework: RSG 3.3 and crossword.

7th Grade Life 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: CHAPTER 3 TEST!

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Go over tests and complete vocab worksheets and definitions for Ch 4
Tuesday: Define and know the kinetic theory of matter. Define Temperature and how it relates to kinetic energy.
Wednesday: Define thermometer and degrees. Know how they are used and how to calculate them
Thursday: Know all about thermal expansion. What it is and how it works. Homework: RSG 4.1
Friday: Lab on making a thermometer.

October 31st-November 4th

2011-10-31T14:35:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Make slime for Halloween
Tuesday: Won't see for class due to mass. Rock cycle story and comic are due.
Wednesday: Complete Rock detective lab on identifying types of rocks
Thursday: Watch video on rocks found in Oklahoma and complete worksheets on Oklahoma rock treasure hunt.
Friday: Complete rock worksheet packet

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Make Slime for Halloween
Tuesday: Define asexual reproduction, binary fission and budding.
Wednesday: Know the process of Regeneration
Thursday: Know differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Friday: MITOSIS QUIZ

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Make slime for Halloween
Tuesday: Go over study guides in class
Wednesday: Finish going over study guides and review.
Thursday: Current Science worksheet
Friday: CHAPTER 3 TEST

October 24-28

2011-10-23T19:49:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Go over tests and complete vocab definitions and worksheet for Rock Chapter
Tuesday: Define rocks, what are characteristics of rocks, how are rocks used in the world.
Wednesday: Define rock cycle. what are the three steps of the rock cycle. Define igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. Homework: RSG 3.1
Thursday: Write a stroy and complete a comic strip on a rocks journey through the rock cycle. Due on Monday.
Friday: Ch 3 Vocab quiz

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: What are the 2 phases of the cell cycle, define the cell cycle. Start the steps of Mitosis.
Tuesday: Finish the stages of mitosis. Homework: Worksheet packet on Mitosis
Wednesday: Activity on making a poster of the stages of mitosis.
Thursday: Finish posters on the stages of mitosis.
Friday: Ch 3 vocab quiz

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Using energy conversions, what are other forms of energy and that we can use
Tuesday: How is energy conserved and what does the law of conservation of energy state. Homework: RSG 3.2
Wednesday: Lab on how you can change the amount of PE in an object
Thursday: Describe energy efficient lights, cars, solar energy, and wind energy. Homework: RSG 3.3
Friday: Ch 3 Vocab Quiz

October 17-21

2011-10-17T19:17:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Go over test study guides in class
Wednesday: Finish going over study guides in class
Thursday: Review Bee for test
Friday: CHAPTER 2 TEST

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Go over tests and complete vocab worksheet and definitions for Ch 3
Wednesday: Define DNA and choromosomes and go over the parts of the chromosomes
Thursday: Cell division is involved in growth, development, and repair, of cells. Homework: RSG 3.1
Friday: What is the cell cycle? 2 phases and parts of the cell cycle.

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Define energy and know the 5 types of energy
Wednesday: Know what kinetic and potential energy are and the characteristics of each. Homework: RSG 3.1
Thursday: Know how energy changes forms what are energy conversions
Friday: Swing time lab

October 10-14th

2011-10-10T10:01:00.003-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Finish 5 ways minerals are formed and start mining processes
Tuesday: Finish the 4 types of mining. Homework: Reading study guide 2.3 and reinforcing key concepts 2.3
Wednesday: Finish up the crystal growing lab
Thursday: Complete test study guides in class. (due on Tues Oct. 10th)
Friday: NO SCHOOL!!!
**** Test over Ch 2 will be next week****

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Complete test study guides
Tuesday: Go over test study guides in class
Wednesday: Finish going over study guides and review for Test
Thursday: CHAPTER 2 TEST
Friday: NO SCHOOL!!!

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Won't see will be at Cascia Hall
Tuesday: Won't see will be at the Opera
Wendesday: 8K- Current Science
8D- Pizza lunch
Thursday: Go over tests and complete vocab definitions and worksheet for Ch 3 Energy
Friday: NO SCHOOL!!!

October 3rd-8th

2011-09-30T21:54:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: continue 7 ways to ID minerals... cleavage and fracture
Tuesday: Finish 7 ways to ID minerals... density and hardness. Know the special properties used to ID minerals. Homework: Reading study guide 2.2
Wednesday: Lab on mineral identification
Thursday: Finish lab on mineral identification
Friday: How we use minerals and the 4 processes of how minerals are formed.
***ch 2 test might be the end of next week***

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Finish going over fermentation process. Homework: RSG 2.2
Tuesday: Do a lab on creating fermentation
Wednesday: Define diffusion, concentration, and passive transport
Thursday: Define osmosis, active transport, endocytosis, exocytosis
Friday: How cell sice affects transport. Homework: RSG 2.3
*** ch 2 test will be end of next week***

8th Grade Physical 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: CHAPTER 2 TEST

September 26-30

2011-09-23T21:13:00.003-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Define mineral and know the 4 characteristics of minerals.
Tuesday: Know how minerals are grouped and list the 6 crystal groups. Homework: RSG 2.1
Wednesday: Lab on growing crystals
Thursday: Know 7 ways minerals are identified and describe color, streak, and luster.
Friday: CHAPTER 2 VOCAB QUIZ

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Define chemical energy, glucose, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll. Go throught the process of photosysthesis.
Tuesday: Go through the process of cellular respiration.
Wednesday: Define fermentation and know characteristics of the two types.
Thursday: Lab on creating Fermentation.
Friday: CHAPTER 2 VOCAB QUIZ

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Won't see will be at their ropes course.
Tuesday: Know how to ID unknown substances and properties used to ID substances.
Wednesday: Know how mixtures can be seperated by the properties of the substances in it. Homework: RSG 2.3
Thursday: Changes in matter smartboard activity.
Friday: CHAPTER 2 VOCAB QUIZ...test will be next week.

September 19-23

2011-09-16T19:31:00.003-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Finish going over test study guides
Tuesday: Review Bee for test
Wednesday: won't see due to the Windy City Players
Thursday: CHAPTER 1 TEST!!
Friday: Go over tests and compelete vocab definitions and worksheet for Mineral chapter

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: CHAPTER 1 TEST!!
Tuesday: Go over tests and complete vocab definitions and worsheet for Ch 2
Wednesday: Define chemical reactions, 4 molecules that are in cells, know all about carbohydrates and lipids and how they function.
Thursday: Know all about nucleic acids and proteins and how they function. Homework: Reading study guide 2.1
Friday: Define chemical energy, glucose, photosynthesis, and chlorophyll

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Know all about physical properties. What is density and how to calculate it. Homework: calculating density worksheet
Tuesday: Lab on calculating density
Wednesday: Know what physical changes, chemical changes, and chemical properties are. Homework: RSG 2.1
Thursday: Know and describe the melting and freezing processes.
Friday: Know evaporation, boiling, and boiling point and how it works.

September 12-16th

2011-09-12T09:34:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Know what a geographic information system is and how it works. Homework: RSG 1.4
Tuesday: Complete test study guides in class
Wednesday: Go over test study guides in class (Test will be Tuesday or Wednesday of next week)
Thursday: Won't have class; going to Greek Festival
Friday: No School- Conferences

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: Go over test study guides in class
Tuesday: Finish going over test study guides in class
Wednesday: Review Bee for test. (Test will be Monday 9/19)
Thursday: Current Science (if back from field trip)
Friday: No School- Conferences

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: Won't see; at BKHS
Tuesday: Go over tests in class and complete vocab worksheet and definitions for Chapter 2
Wednesday: 8K-Current Science 8D- Won't see; at pizza lunch
Thursday: Won't see; going to Greek Festival
Friday: No School- Conferences

Sept. 5-9th

2011-09-05T21:46:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Define topography, contour lines, elevation, slope, and relief of topographic maps.
Wednesday: Rules of contour lines and symbols on a topographic maps. Homework: RSG 1.4
Thursday: Complete lab on making topographic maps
Friday: Define remote sensing, sensors, how satellites work, and false color imaging

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: NO School
Tuesday: Know and define the 3 domains of organisms
Wednesday: define specilization, tissue, organ, and systems. Homework: RSG 1.3
Thursday: Lab on looking at your own cells.
Friday: Complete test study guides in class. ***test will be next week!!***

8th Grade Physical Science
Monday: No School
Tuesday: Complete test study guides in class
Wednesday: go over test study guides in class
Thursday: review bee for test
Friday:CH 1 TEST

August 29-Sept 2

2011-08-28T16:02:00.002-05:00

6th Grade Earth Science
Monday: Know GPS and how it works. Define projection and cylindrical projections. Homework: RGS 1.1
Tuesday: Know and define conic and planar projections. Homework: RSG 1.2
Wednesday: Make a model of a map projection.
Thursday: Finish map projection models. (due at the end of class)
Friday: CHAPTER 1 VOCAB QUIZ

7th Grade Life Science
Monday: SEM and TEM microscopes. Define cell membrane, prokaryotic cells, and eukaryotic cells.
Tuesday: Know characteristics and parts of the plant cell
Wednesday: Know characteristics and parts of the animal cell Homework: RSG 1.2
Thursday: Jello cell lab
Friday: Parts of the cell quiz

8th Grade Physcial Science
Monday: Define atom and molecule and give characteristics of each.
Tuesday: Define and know characteristics of elements, compounds, and mixtures
Wednesday: Complete "nuts and bolts classifying matter" activity in class.
Thursday: Define states of matter, solids, liquids, and gases.
Friday: Know specific characteristics of solids, liquids, and gases.