Fiegel+8th+Grade+Sci

9/1/2011 Planner Content: Scientific Method Graphing/analyze Data Home work: Study for the thest Reminder-Test on 9/6

Notes: Students took their worksheet from yesterday and put it on page 6 of their composition notebook. They used pages 7 and 8 to create graphs of their data, one for distance traveled and one for time in the air. We also began a long term data project. Students are creating a data table to follow 23 college football teams (wins/losses) for the season.

8/31/2011 Planner Content: Descriptive investigation Quantitative Data Independent Variable Dependent Variable

Notes: Today we did a balloon lab to practice taking data. Students measured mass, distance and time and filled in their data table and answered analytically questions about their data.

8/30/2011 Scientific Method Presentation **Homework: Test Review/Study Guide**
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 * Test: 9/6/2011 **

Today we introduced vocabulary related to the scientific method. Also there was a video on the scientific method: Scientific Method Video

Items added to the science binder:
 * Study Guide (section 4)
 * Color Coded vocabulary notes from PPT above (section 3)

8/29/2011 Science Binder Assembly Composition Book Assembly completed initial science binder organization and set up composition notebook through page 5 with the periodic table on the last page of the composition notebook.
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