Students recently took their first quiz for Rise and Stretch based on the notes we took for the scientific method. I was very happy with their results, the vast majority passed with a 70% or better! The students who didn't pass will get the opportunity to be retaught and retested, so that they can better display their understanding. Remember that for students to attend the Stretch activity, they must pass all 3 of their core class quizzes (science, history, and English).This upcoming week we will hopefully be making the student folders which we've been talking about since school began, but which haven't actually arrived yet (yes... I'm getting a little bit anxious to get them going).
To start off the week we'll be finishing the labs focused on the physical properties of matter (the candy lab and cornstarch lab - I'll try to get a video on the blog with visual instructions for playing with cornstarch at home if you want). Then we'll be working on some matter vocabulary, to help remind students about what they learned in 7th grade about atoms, states of matter, etc.
Building on last week when we talked about physical and chemical properties, this week we'll be looking at physical and chemical changes using some more notes and by watching chemical reaction demonstrations that I'll be performing for the class. Near the end of the week we will do a lab about mass (a physical property of matter) using pennies. If we have time we will work on a lab about the chemical reactions in combustion (I guess all scientists are really pyromaniacs at heart - we'll be very safe pyromaniacs, of course).
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