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Per. 4 - H SCI/HLTH 6B - 6
Room: 39
Bruce Newborn

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Homework:

Health Issues in 6th grade science- the abuses
Due Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
For the last 3 sessions we will be meeting for science, we are focusing on the health component of the 6th grade curriculum, plus a little extra. We will be discussing tobacco abuse, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and the one I added; food abuse. These should be very interesting discussions indeed! On Friday June 18, we will have our end of year celebration. Students can bring goodies to share, and we'll enjoy celebrating their first year in middle school.

Chapter 15 - Weather and Climate
Due Date: Friday, June 04, 2010
Homework is on section 1 of chapter 15, in the textbook page 511, questions 1-10. Due Friday.

Weather...or not!
Due Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Now that the rock and mineral projects are over and graded (see snapgrades) we will be focusing on weather the next 2 weeks. The final week of school we will focus on health issues relating to four abuses; alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and food. Should be some really interesting discussions!

Rock and Mineral project presentations and science test
Due Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Test today on rocks and minerals. Project presentations today if time permits, or if not presentations will be on Monday.

Rock and Mineral project presentations and science test
Due Date: Friday, May 21, 2010
Today and Friday, students will be presenting their rock and mineral projects. In addition, on Friday, they will have an exam on rocks and minerals. The information packets they were given can be used during the test. Please have them study these packets.

Rock and Mineral projects
Due Date: Monday, May 03, 2010
Today students worked on their rock and mineral projects. We will continue with them next week as we have our field trip on Friday.

Minerals and the rock and mineral project
Due Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
On Wednesday we will begin work on the rock and mineral project as well as continue our lessons on minerals. Homework is to work on the project. The due date for part one of the project which is the rock hunting and gathering portion is due no later that April 26.

Volcanoes Hollywood style
Due Date: Wednesday, April 07, 2010
To finish off our unit on volcanoes, we are watching the movie "VOLCANO", a story about a volcano erupting under the La Brea Tar Pits. Ah Hollywood! We should finish the movie on Wednesday and we will move into our next unit on Rocks and Minerals. For this unit. We will not be using the textbook as the information in there is very poor. We will be using information I copied from chapter and lesson summaries from our old textbook. It has much better information. With Rocks and Minerals will come another project, "The Great Rock and Mineral Collection Project"! More details next week.

Volcano presentations
Due Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Students will be presenting their volcano projects on Wednesday and Friday this week. Students MUST be at school for their presentations or they will receive a zero on the project. The only exceptions are students who have made prior arrangements with me, and that is only one student. There will also be a science test on chapter 8 on Thursday.

Effects of Volcanic Eruptions
Due Date: Monday, March 22, 2010
Today we worked on Chapter 8, lesson three in science. The homework is on page 281, questions 2-9, due Monday next week. This week on Wednesday and Friday are the last 2 days to work on their volcano project. Please talk to your children and see how they are coming along on the project and whether or not they will have to take something home to complete it. The volcano presentations and eruptions will be on Wednesday March 24 and Friday March 26. We will have a test on Chapter 8 sometime before spring break, probably on a math day since I do not want to take away a day to work on the projects. A tentative date for the test will be Tuesday March 23 or Thursday March 25. This will be a "no notes" test. Studying with a study buddy is HIGHLY recommended!!

Types of Volcanoes
Due Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Today we read Chapter 8, lesson 2 on types of vaolcanoes. Homework is on page 277, questions 2-7. Due Wednesday.

Volcano Project
Due Date: Friday, March 05, 2010
Today students worked on their volcano projects. We'll continue on Friday. I am being flexible on the due dates until the projects are completed.

Chapter 8, lesson 2 - Types of volcanoes
Due Date: Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Today we spent most of the period discussing the horrific 8.8 earthquake in Chile over the weekend. Please allow them to watch some news so that can be up to date on the developments there. We will work on some of the next lesson on Wednesday as well as working on the volcano project. There is no homework.

How Volcanoes Form
Due Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Today we worked on Chapter 8, lesson 1 "How Volcanoes Form" Homework is on page 269, questions 2-8. Due Thursday as I will not be on ca,pus on Wednesday.