Penda is weekly homelearning for both Comp Sci and Biology students. Each Friday students will be assigned 4 lessons related to their class content which are due by the following Sunday @ Midnight.
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ALL 2019-2020 SCIENCE CLASSES:
You will need a 1.5 inch binder
You will NOT need to bring hand sanitizer to class (you can bring hand soap instead)
Thursday and Friday students worked on two virtual labs on magnetism and temperature’s effect on solubility. If you did not turn these in today, they are due first thing on Monday.
Students also took a brief checkpoint on Properties of Matter.
HomeLearning:
Today we finalized our enzyme lab investigation. Students who did not finish their lab analysis questions may turn them in Monday.
HomeLearning:
Science project procedures are to be uploaded to FOCUS on 9/27.
I wanted to say a quick “Thanks” to all the parents that made it out to open house tonight. Sorry for talking your ears off… hopefully I covered most of the important information!
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me at any time.
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Attention students and parents- please be aware that progress report grades only include assignments due before Wed. Sept 11th. All assignments since then are not part of the calculation.
This means that your student’s actual grade may have changed (in some cases significantly) since progress reports were generated.
As always, please check Focus for the most up-to-date grade information.
A note about Science Project Proposals: students will receive their proposal documents back on Monday. Projects that were NOT approved received a 50%. These projects can be revised and resubmitted by Friday 9/20 and the grade will be changed (upon approval).
The following assignments graded and updated in Focus:
The following assignments are graded and updated in Focus as of now. Science project proposals will be updated before Monday.
Quiz grades have been updated for the Comp Sci Students who completed the SRE Test corrections.
Julia E. Landon – The E stands for you are Expected to be on your best behavior.
Today I am out at an all-day science meeting so you will have a guest teacher. Students in both Biology and Comp Sci 3 will do our first gizmo investigation. Students in Biology and Comp Sci 3 will have a quiz on Friday.
Biology:
Complete the Identifying Nutrients gizmo (www.explorelearning.com) in class. You may share computers, but each student must complete their own exploration guide. Afterwards you may work on your Foldable/comic strip/poster.
Comp Sci. 3:
Complete the Density: Slice-N-Dice gizmo (www.explorelearning.com) in class. You may share computers, but each student must complete their own exploration guide. Afterwards you may work on your Density Practice Problems — don’t forget to show ALL your work and include the units.
Students in class had time to finish up their density investigation analysis.
Density Practice Problems – (due FRIDAY) See FOCUS if you need another copy of these questions. Make sure you show ALL WORK and include units to receive full credit.
Test corrections– I worked with small groups of students to review our Waves through Media checkpoint. Students received a copy of the SRE Test corrections steps. This need to be completed on a separate sheet of paper and turned in on FRIDAY to bring up quiz scores.
Bio students were given time in class to complete their lab analysis questions. See image above if you needed the results from Benedict’s solution.
Macromolecule Creative Project (Student Choice) Due FRIDAY
Today students completed their hands-on density investigation in class. Students are to complete the calculations for density and the analysis questions at home. Yes, you need to do both sides of the lab activity.
If you were NOT able to gather all of your data in the two class periods we had for this lab, you may use the data in the table below. Note: You still need to calculate density for the regular and irregular objects.
Email me - gearyd@duvalschools.org
