MYP12012-13

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Class Schedule:


 * Academic Year: 2012 – 2013 ||
 * Period || Time || Monday || Period || Time || Wednesday || Period || Time || Friday ||
 * 1 || 08:00 – 08:50 || MYP 1 / 209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">09:55 - 10:40 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 1 / 208 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">08:00 – 08:50 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 1 / 208 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">08:50 – 09:35 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 1 / 209 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10:40 - 11:25 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 1 / 208 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">08:50 – 09:35 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">MYP 1 / 208 ||

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Week 34, Class 1 - 3: Students worked on bridges. During the last class the students wrote reflections on the process.

Week 35, Class 2: Students received supplies and started working on their bridges.

Week 35, Class 1: Students finished planning and drawing their bridge designs.

Week 26, Class 1: Types of matter review.

HW: Bring something so we can classify it as either homogeneous mixture, element, compound, heterogeneous.

Week 25, Class 1: Finish notes on classification of matter. media type="youtube" key="PlwuxpMh8nk" height="315" width="420"

LAB: What is the effect of different compounds when it is mixed with Vinegar?

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Month ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Date ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Week ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit Topic ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Unit Question ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">AOI / GC ** ||~ **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">ATL ** ||~ **LP** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">-Understand basic physical properties that allow a bridge to remain standing when a stress is added. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Community and Service || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Transfer and Thinking || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Thinker and Knowledgeable ||
 * April || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">3 - 5 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">26 ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">8 - 12 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">27 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">15 - 19 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">28 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">22 - 26 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">29 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Bridges || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How are things held together?
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">22 - 26 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">29 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Bridges || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">How are things held together?
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">May ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">6 - 10 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">30 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">13 - 17 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">31 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
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 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">27 - 29 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">33 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">June ** || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">3 - 7 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">34 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green School Prep ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">10 - 14 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">35 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green School ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">17 - 21 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">36 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green School ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * ^  || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">24 - 28 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">37 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18.6667px;">Reflection ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

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Week 24, Class 3: Present element project. Introduction to elements on the periodic table.

Wee 24, Class 2: Library: element project.

Week 24, Class 1: Library: start research on your element project.

Week, 23, Class 3: Review the differences between physical and chemical changes. Start notes on classifying mixtures, compounds, and elements. http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/Science/Physical_and_Chemical_Changes/

Week 23, Class 2: Watched videos demonstrating physical or chemical changes.

Week 23, Class 1: Edit Crystal lab.
 * __HW: Find two videos that demonstrate physical change and two videos that demonstrate a chemical change.__**

Week 22, Class 3: Introduction to Chemical and Physical Change __**HW: send crystal lab report by email.**__

Week 22, Class 2: Finish Crystal report. Practice presentations for Assembly.

Week 22, Class 1: Review MRS NERG, Look at crystal results, work on LAB REPORT.







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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 21, Class 1: Review content from before the break.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 20, Class 3: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will present their animal projects. Farewell to Seung Myeon.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 20, Class 2: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will be given the opportunity to finish their animal project. If students finish early they will be allowed to practice giving their presentations for Friday

__**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW Presentations on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15. **__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 20: Class 1: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students will work on their animal project from "Finding Nemo."

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 19: Classes 1-3: Students will work on their animal presentations; however, most of the classes were lost due to the ISA exam.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 18, Class 3: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students discussed the taxonomy of how animals are classified and they created their own mnemonic devices on how to remember the different groups. Students finished watching the movie. Students were introduced to the animal classification project.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sim: Great White Shark <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Vuyo: Blue Whale <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hojung: Blue Tang <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Areez: Swordfish <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Seung Myeon: Clownfish <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dhaya: Jellyfish

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 18, Class 2: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students were introduced to the concept of Mrs. Nerg, a way to remember the characteristics of life.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students continued watching the movie "Finding Nemo".

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 18, Class 1: Students exchanged dichotomous keys to check if they did them correct. Students started watching "Finding Nemo" writing down the everything they believe to be alive in the movie.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 17, Class 3: Classifying own object, Dichotomous key activity (difficult)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 17, Class 2: Introduction to classification. Dichonomous key activity (simple) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**HW: Bring an object to classify.**__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 17, Class 1: Presentation of constellation project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 16, Class 3: Research for constellation project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 16, Class 2: Research for constellation project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 16, Class 1:Research for constellation project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 15, Class 3: Research for constellation project. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">__**HW: Complete the contellation project with projection by Monday January 21!**__

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 15, Class 2: Reintroduce constellation project. Research for constellation project.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 15, Class 1: Introduction to the new students Sim and Vuyo.

Week 14, Class 3: Reseach constellation for project.

Week 14, Class 2: Research constellation for project.

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Week 13, Class 3: Star cycle video clip.

Week 13, Class 2: Star cycle powerpoint.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 13, Class 1: Students will present their planet presentations __**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Write a paragraph about the life cycle of a star. Remember to use the strategies that Ms. Craig taught you to make a good paragraph. Fix your presentations using the rubric. **__

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objectives (B and C)
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">B-Demonstrates understanding of basic scientific language by using appropriate scientific terminology, units of measurement and symbolic representation. ====

====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">C-Identifies basic scientific components found in information from different sources (Internet, newspaper articles, television, scientific texts and publications) and is able to give an opinion justified by his/her knowledge and understanding of sciences. ====

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Objectives (A and E)
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understands that science is part of the world he/she lives in by giving examples and commenting on ways in which science affects life, society and the world. ====

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Gives examples of science and scientific applications and describes how these could affect people, societies and the environment.
====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Organizes and transforms data into simple numerical and/or diagrammatic forms, including mathematical calculations and/or visual representations (tables, graphs and charts), with guidance. ====

====<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-With guidance, presents data in a variety of ways using appropriate communication modes (oral, written and visual representation, and use of technologies) and conventions (units of measurement). ====

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trimester 02 Units
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand properties of the planets and other celestial objects || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communication || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communicator and Risk Taker || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand the properties of life and how it is classified. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Environments || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Information Literacy || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Principled and Open minded || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand properties of matter. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflection || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reflective and Inquirer ||
 * ~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Month ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Date ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Topic ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Question ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">AOI / GC ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ATL ||~ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LP ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">December || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 - 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Solar System || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What else is out there?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">December || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 - 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">13 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Solar System || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What else is out there?
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 - 14 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">14 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  |||||||||||||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Winter Holiday! ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">January || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7 - 11 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">15 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">That’s Life || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How do you group things together?
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">28 – 1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">18 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
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 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">March || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 - 8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">22 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Matter and Changes of State || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What are we made of?
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit 1: Scientific Method (7 weeks)
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">IB Objectives: (Criterion D, E, F)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Recognizes, with guidance, the problem or research question to be tested by a scientific investigation.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Asks questions of the type: What will happen if? Why does this happen when? and becomes familiar with making predictions and providing simple reasoning (“If I do this, then this will happen … ”).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Identifies, with guidance, the factors that can be measured in an investigation (dependent variables), the factors that can be manipulated (independent variables) and those that must remain constant (control variables); identifies some of the materials/equipment needed; describes a simple method. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Collects and records data using appropriate units of measurement, with guidance.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Interprets data by identifying trends, patterns and relationships, with guidance.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Draws appropriate conclusions based on the data, with guidance.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Carries out scientific investigations, with guidance, using materials and techniques safely and skillfully.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Works effectively as member of a team, by being guided into collaborating, acknowledging and supporting others as well as ensuring a safe working environment.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 12, Class 1-3: The students will work in the library on their presentations.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 11, Class 3: Students will work in the library on their presentations.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 11, Class 2: Students will choose two planets complete a presentation on both using the rubric below.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 11, Class 1: Students will finish their models of the solar system. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish solar system models.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 3: Students will continue to work on their scale models of the solar system.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 2: Students will look and try to solve the NASA puzzle. Students will start creating a scale model of the planet sizes using a compass to draw perfect circles. They will also use the color guides given to them from NASA to determine the correct color each planet should be.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 10, Class 1: Finish planet puzzle. Watch introduction to How the planets formed. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|BBC Different Worlds]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 9, Class 2: Introduction to Planets: Students will create a planet puzzle from NASA.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 9, Class 1: Review Scientific Method and introduction to Planets using cartoon. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: complete poster on either the balloon experiment or the elephant tooth paste. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 8, Class 3: Students finished the lab report on the elephant tooth paste after watching the video of what happened. Students performed the Balloon lab where they mixed baking soda with vinegar and recorded the size of a balloon. The students determined the IV and DV. The amount of vinegar was chosen at the IV.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 8, Class 2: Students performed the elephant tooth paste lab once they determined what IV they wanted to test. We ended up testing two different ones: amount of soap, and amount of yeast. Students started completing a written lab report.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 8, Class 1: Watched videos chosen from the students and identified the IV, DV, Controls and Constants for each. Decided on an experiement to complete doing the following class. Elephant toothpaste and Balloon experiment were chosen to complete during the following classes.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 7, Class 1: Review Scientific method WS. Added constants to science definitions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Find experiment video and identify: IV, DV, Controls, and Constants. Be prepared to present your results on Wednesday.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 3: Review scientific method by using a film.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 2: Went over homework Sponge Bob part 1 and part 2. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Sponge Bob Part 3

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 6, Class 1: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Part 1 and Part 2 Sponge Bob WS.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 3: Finish Barbie Bungee with student bought stuffed animals.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 2: Start lab on Barbie Bungee. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Bring some sort of doll/stuffed animal to test for bungee jumping activity.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 5, Class 1: Egg drop lab. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Finish conclusion for the egg drop lab.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 3: Finished Measurement lab.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 2: Started measurement lab. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 4, Class 1: Went over the metric system. Completed metic system foldable and started Measurement Scavenger Hunt

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Create a container for dropping an egg off the roof of the school. The purpose is to create a container that will keep the egg from breaking DUE: Next Friday, Measurement Scavenger Hunt DUE: Wednesday.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 3: Created a poster of the experiment we did in class on Wednesday. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Create a container for dropping an egg off the roof of the school. The purpose is to create a container that will keep the egg from breaking. DUE: Next Friday.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 2: Quiz over science equipment, Review Scientific Method using what is the effect of sugar on the temperature of water, Practice lab techniques using this lab: pipettes, Bunsen Burner and test tubes. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Write a conclusion for does sugar effect the temperature of water. Due FRIDAY.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 3, Class 1:Science Equipment introduction.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Quiz over lab equipment, signed safety contract.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 3: Notes over scientific method. Video of Science Olympian.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Video: Science Olympian]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 2: Test Rockets and Analyze results; how to calculate average.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">HW: Definition of Science

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 2, Class 1: Introduction to scientific method using Rocket Lab.

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 1, Class 2: Discussion of Safety and passed out safety contract

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<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Lab Safety Activity]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Week 1, Class 1: Discussion of last year science curriculum and introduction to MYP science

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Trimester 1: Science Curriculum <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand how and why scientists use the scientific method. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand the terms associated with scientific method. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Health and Social Education || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Collaboration and Organization || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Caring and Balanced || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understand properties of the planets and other celestial objects. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Human Ingenuity || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communication || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Communicator and Risk Taker ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Month ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Unit Question || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">AOI || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">ATL || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">LP ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">September || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 - 7 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Scientific Method || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How do you find evidence to answer a question?
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 - 14 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">2 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">17 - 21 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">3 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">24 - 28 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">4 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">October || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">1 - 5 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8 - 12 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">6 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">15 - 19 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">7 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">22 - 26 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">8 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Solar System || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">What else is out there?
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">5 – 9 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">9 ||^  ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12 - 16 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">10 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">19 - 23 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">11 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||
 * ^  || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">26 - 30 || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">12 ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||^   ||

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">IB Science Objectives: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(One World) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">- refers to enabling students to understand the interdependence between science and society. Students should be aware of the global dimensions of science, as a universal activity with consequences for our lives and subject to social, economic, political, environmental cultural and ethical factors. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion B (Communication in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to develop their communication skills in science. Students should be able to understand scientific information, such as data, ideas, arguments and investigations, and communicate it using appropriate scientific language in a variety of communication modes and formats as appropriate. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion C <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Knowledge and Understanding of Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to understand the main ideas and concepts of science and to apply them to solve problems in familiar and unfamiliar situations. Students are expected to develop critical and reflective thinking and judge the credibility of scientific information when this is presented to them. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion D <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Inquiry in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling the students to develop scientific inquiry skills to design and carry out scientific investigations. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion E <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Processing Data) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to enabling students to record, organize and process data. Students should be able to collect and transform data by numerical calculations into diagrammatic form. Students should be able to analyze and interpret data and explain appropriate conclusions. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion F <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(Attitudes in Science) <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-refers to encouraging attitudes and disposition that will contribute to students’ development as caring and responsible individuals and members of society. Students will learn about safety and responsibility when working in science as well as respect for and collaboration with others and their shared environment. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Gives examples of science and scientific applications and describes how these could affect people, societies and the environment. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Give examples of ways in which science has played a part in the development of technology, and ways in which technology has played a part in the development of science. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Understands that science is part of the world he/she lives in by giving examples and commenting on ways in which science affects life, society and the world. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Demonstrates understanding of basic scientific language by using appropriate scientific terminology, units of measurement and symbolic representation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Provides scientific information using appropriate modes of communication: oral, written, visual representation (formulae, graphs, tables, diagrams) with guidance. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Presents scientific information in appropriate formats (such as, laboratory reports, experimental accounts, explanations, essays, expositions, audio‐visual presentations) with guidance, and become familiar with the system used in the school to acknowledge sources. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Recognizes the need for honesty when collecting and processing data and information, and when acknowledging sources. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Uses, with guidance, information and communication technology applications (World Wide Web, data loggers, databases, spreadsheets or software for plotting graphs) to access, process and/or communicate scientific information. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Recognizes and recalls scientific information relevant to the units of work covered. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Explains and applies simple scientific information to solve problems in familiar and, with guidance, in unfamiliar situations. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Identifies basic scientific components, relationships and patterns, both in experimental data and ideas. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Identifies basic scientific components found in information from different sources (Internet, newspaper articles, television, scientific texts and publications) and is able to give an opinion justified by his/her knowledge and understanding of sciences. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Recognizes, with guidance, the problem or research question to be tested by a scientific investigation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Asks questions of the type: What will happen if? Why does this happen when? and becomes familiar with making predictions and providing simple reasoning (“If I do this, then this will happen … ”). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Identifies, with guidance, the factors that can be measured in an investigation (dependent variables), the factors that can be manipulated (independent variables) and those that must remain constant (control variables); identifies some of the materials/equipment needed; describes a simple method. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Comments on the method and the quality of the results, with guidance. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Suggests improvements to the method, with guidance. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Collects and records data using appropriate units of measurement, with guidance. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Organizes and transforms data into simple numerical and/or diagrammatic forms, including mathematical calculations and/or visual representations (tables, graphs and charts), with guidance. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-With guidance, presents data in a variety of ways using appropriate communication modes (oral, written and visual representation, and use of technologies) and conventions (units of measurement). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Interprets data by identifying trends, patterns and relationships, with guidance. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Draws appropriate conclusions based on the data, with guidance. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Carries out scientific investigations, with guidance, using materials and techniques safely and skillfully. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Works effectively as member of a team, by being guided into collaborating, acknowledging and supporting others as well as ensuring a safe working environment. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Shows respect for self and others, and deals responsibly with the living and non‐living environment. || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Criterion A
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">-Makes comments on the ways in which science is applied and used to solve local and global problems.

MYP1 2011-2012