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LAST WEEK

Summer Break!!!

THIS WEEK

08/25/08	1st Days of School Activities	Students will get to know each other through team-building activities.
08/26/08	1st Days of School Activities	Students will get to know each other by participating in Olympic-themed activities.
08/27/08	Housekeeping; Central Tendencies Vocabulary: Mean, Median, Mode, Range	Students will demonstrate understanding of mean, median, mode, and range by individually completing their vocabulary journal.
08/28/08	Mean, Median, Mode, Range	Students will demonstrate understanding of mean, median, mode, and range by working several problems with a partner or with a group.
08/29/08	WU - Computations; HW review; Pretest	Students will show what they remember from previous teaching by individually completing the pretest to the best of their ability.

LOOKING AHEAD

09/01/08	Holiday
09/02/08	WU - MMMR; Data Analysis Vocabulary
09/03/08	WU - identify elements of graphs;Bar & Circle Graphs
09/04/08	WU - interpreting graphs; Line graphs, Venn Diagrams
09/05/08	WU - TAKS Activote; Line Plot

7th Grade Science

LAST WEEK

Summer Break!!!

THIS WEEK

08/25/08	1st Days of School Activities	Students will get to know each other through team-building activities.
08/26/08	1st Days of School Activities	Students will get to know each other by participating in Olympic-themed activities.
08/27/08	Safety information; Creature of the Week (CotW); Seating assignments	The student will individually show understanding of laboratory safety rules by correctly answering 100% of the questions on the safety quiz correctly.
08/28/08	Turn in safety contracts; Scavenger hunt; Safety quiz re-takes; Explain self-directed science project packet (SDSP)	Students will demonstrate use and navigation of the CSA website by correctly completing the scavenger hunt with a partner.
08/29/08	Begin self-directed science project packet; Vocabulary journal	Students will individually demonstrate they understand the five (5) major components of an experimental design by correctly beginning their vocabulary journal.

LOOKING AHEAD

09/01/08	Holiday
09/02/08	Vocabulary journal, Self-Directed Science Project Packet page 2	Students will individually demonstrate understanding of the basic components of experimental design by correctly completing their vocabulary journal and writing two correct hypotheses.
09/03/08	Self-Directed Science Project Packet pages 3-5	Students will individually apply what they know about the basic components of experimental design by correctly selecting examples of each component and making an experimental design diagram.
09/04/08	Self-Directed Science Project Packet pages 5-8	Students will demonstrate understanding of typical flaws in experiments by correctly individually picking out flaws in experiments.
09/05/08	Penny Test Lab	Students will demonstrate that they understand what must be in an experiment by trying to pick out the basic experimental components of an experiment with their group.