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FS – G7 Week 12

Lesson 1 - Monday, Nov 10 (Dr. M absent)

Housekeeping: With a Guest Teacher, students took a step towards the ‘official’ start of their new unit (Unit 7.2 – Dynamic Atmosphere) by doing the following…

1. Watch a portion of the Naked Science’s “Why is the Earth’s Atmosphere so important?” (Episode 3).
 
2. As a means of processing some of the key knowledge presented in the video, every 10-15 minutes students were asked to record/write three pieces of information worth remembering on a single piece of lined (writing) paper.
 
3. Students were asked to submit their properly labelled and titled video notes to the Guest Teacher at the end of the lesson.

Homework: Although a final due date has NOT yet been announced, students should spend another 20 minutes working on their “Odysseus The Grain” science essay prior to the start of their next science lesson.

Lesson 2 - Tue, Nov 11 (B) & Wed, Nov 12 (H)

Housekeeping: After briefly discussing the main topic of our new unit (“the atmosphere”), we returned to watching yesterday’s video for the purpose of collecting additional notes about the structure(s), function(s), and processes that make up the Earth’s atmosphere. Students can see the notes Dr. M typed during our video pauses in the G7 Notes Portal.

Homework: Although a final due date has NOT yet been announced, students should spend another 20 minutes working on their “Odysseus The Grain” science essay prior to the start of their next science lesson.

Lesson 3 - Wed, Nov 12 (B) & Thu, Nov 13 (H)

Housekeeping: After adding and updating their scientific definition of “air,” students were asked to…

  1. Start developing their Initial Model of the Earth’s atmosophere. To do so, students were given an large A3 piece of paper, asked to draw the Earth similar to how we did so in Unit 7.1, and then allowed to use their video notes to begin developing a detailed, hand-drawn model of the atmosphere.
  2. We will spend the next lesson completing our Initial Models and identifying the consensus ideas.

Homework: Although a final due date has NOT yet been announced, students should spend another 20 minutes working on their “Odysseus The Grain” science essay prior to the start of their next science lesson.

Lesson 4 - Thu, Nov 13 (B) & Fri, Nov 14 (H)

Housekeeping: Text

Homework: —

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The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: How do chemical substances move through Earth's atmosphere, water, and land to change the planet we live on?

B period homework collection days: Tuesday & Thursday.

H period homework collection days: Wednesday & Friday.

Including this week, there are 8 weeks of school to complete before the end of the Fall Semester.

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