Science-Ms. Marshall
Today in class we review “Laws of Electrical Charges” and static electricity. Next Friday we will review current electricity and experiment with electrical circuits… should be a fun class for the students.
Please ensure your child has taken the final exam on electricity online. Next unit we will be working on is electricity and magnatism.
Today we learned about different traits and how they are handed-down from parents to offspring. Students identified and listed nine traits to complete a survey on with their families. Students were assigned to design a table to record traits of family members and then to conduct a survey to complete the traits table. This assignment will be [...]
Unit test for “Changes in the Earth’s Surface” was given last Monday. Most students did not do very well. I highly encourage parents to help their child retake the test over the holidays for a better score
Today we finished up missing assignments, did some reading in science journals to build background knowledge, and went to [...]
Students finished up their information charts on the “Layers of the Earth” and for the most part did a very good job on their presentations
Most students finished their quiz on the layers of the earth; we will finish the remainder on Friday and reveiw the quiz
Final exam for “Changes in the Earth’s Surface” will be [...]
We are finishing up our unit on changes in matter and will be reviewing for the unit exam this week which will be given on your computers at home (if there are families where this is not possible, please let me know and I will make other arrangements for your child to take the test at school). [...]
Worked on the scientific method by conducting an experiment and learning how to correctly fill out a science journal on a given experiment.
Will complete sceince journal next Friday and have oral presentations on the results of the experiment from each group.
Many students were having problems with finding the average of a set of numbers… parents [...]
Yesterday we had our final exercise and review on the metric system. The test for this unit will be given on Thursday.
Our next unit will be a short one on the scientific method which we will start next week.
There will be no science class on Friday because of the 5th grade field trip.
We finished up our review on the metric system today with a science lab comparing and measuring objects in grams.
The test for this unit will be next Wednesday and then we will start a short unit on the scientific method.
Units of Length assignment was due today.
We started Lesson 2 on the metric system which deals with mass. Students had a lesson and in-class assignment which include among other things, how to figure thier weight in kg (ask them what they weigh in kg). Next Monday we will have a lab utilizing the triple-beam balance [...]
Science grades are now posted in SIS. If you do not know how to access your child’s grades through SIS, contact school administration.