No bellwork this week due to project!
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Monday - Friday:  Element Superhero Project - Students will have five class periods to work on and may take home as homework, if needed.  Projects are due at the end of class on December 21st.  Worth 50 points.  Please click on directions & rubric below.
 
Research Websites - 

http://www.chemicool.com/                                              
 
http://chemistry.about.com/library/blperiodictablekids.htm

http://www.chemicalelements.com/                      http://www.webelements.com/
 
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic-chart.htm        http://www.ptable.com/

Sites to help with drawing superhero.
Superherotar - http://superherotar.framiq.com
Hero Machine3 (advanced) -http://www.heromachine.com/heromachine-3-lab/
DC Me - https://www.dckids.com/dc-super-friends/htmlgame/name/super-hero-me

You are NOT required to print out a superhero.  Your drawing must be colored.  If you use a computer to help with your drawing you will either need to print it our and color it or use a color print.  The school printer is only black and white.



HOMEWORK:  ALL STUDENTS NEED A NEW SCIENCE NOTEBOOK FOR THE NEW YEAR!  Also make sure you have pencils, glue, scissors, colored pencils or crayons.
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MONDAY-  ABCD OUTPUT QUIZ - Open Notes.  Students have all hour to complete. 

TUESDAY-Bell Work: Video: Basics of periodic table (video below) List three facts.
Periodic Table Notes (Notes & Worksheet on MiStar)

WEDNESDAY-Bell Work: Quote:  When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.- Alexander Graham Bell 
Elements & The Periodic Table Mini Labs p. 2 (Worksheets & Activities are on MiStar)
Illustrate It
Write It
Assess It
Organize IT


THURSDAY- Bell Work: Term: FRICTION = Friction is a force that acts to stop the movement of two touching objects.  There are two kinds of friction: static and kinetic. Static friction is when the friction is strong enough to stop movement between objects.  Kinetic friction force is not strong enough to stop all motion.
Scholastic Science World with worksheet.  ​Read two articles and use them to complete the worksheet.  (Need to finish? Go to https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/ and find another article to read & write about.)​  Students will be given a list of missing work for the week to complete for Make Up Monday to earn full credit.

FRIDAY -Bell Work: Joke: What do you do with a sick chemist? A: If you can't helium, and you can't curium, you might as well barium.
​Elements & the Periodic Table Mini Lab p. 2

​MONDAY-  Bell Work: Quote: Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often.  That's a consequence of exploration.  Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you are doing. -Neil deGrasse Tyson ​
Elements & Periodic Table Mini Lab p.1

Elements & The Periodic Table Mini Labs p. 1
Watch It -www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd4-Uy2FLWc
Research It -www.livescience.com/25300-periodic-table.html
Explore It -MiStar
Read It - MiStar

TUESDAY- Bell Work: Video: Elements of Periodic Table Song (video below)- What element names did you like best?
Quote: Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often.  That's a consequence of exploration.  Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you are doing. -Neil deGrasse Tyson 
Elements & Periodic Table Mini Lab p.1

WEDNESDAY-Bell Work: Term: Continental drift = is the theory that parts of the Earth’s crust move slowly on top of a liquid core. The theory has now been included in the wide theory of plate tectonics which looks at the large scale movement of the Earth​
Chapter 3 Section 2 Organizing the Elements p. 80-87 with worksheet​


THURSDAY- Bell Work: Joke: I heard that Oxygen & Magnesium were going out and I was like O-Mg
Chapter 3 Section 1 Introduction to Atoms p. 74-79 with worksheet 

FRIDAY -
Scholastic Science World with worksheet.  ​Read two articles and use them to complete the worksheet.  (Need to finish? Go to https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/ and find another article to read & write about.)​  Students will be given a list of missing work for the week to complete for Make Up Monday to earn full credit.