Monday, April 27, 2020 Remote Learning Plan

Grade 8 Lesson

Click here if you are a seventh grade student.

Your lesson for today is evaluate a case study of how natural selection and evolution are impacting the fight against HIV.

Students who have missing work will also receive instructions to make up the "Density Practice and Review" assignment.

  1. Your first step will be watch a segment of video on natural selection in HIV.

  2. Your second step will be complete a worksheet with questions to reflect on what you learned in that video.

  3. If you also receive a makeup assignment, your third step will be to complete that work as described.

Now, go to Google classroom and get to work!

Wednesday, April 22, 2020 Remote Learning Plan

Grade 8 Lesson

Click here if you are a seventh grade student.

Your lesson for today is to review natural selection and to use your knowledge to explain a strange story of a newt and a garter snake.

You will go to Google Classroom to complete this assignment. All of the documents you need are located there.

  1. Your first step will be complete the assignment titled “Natural Selection Review” located in Google Classroom. In it you will watch a short Amoeba Sister’s video on the topic and answer a few questions.

  2. Your second step will be to watch a short video explaining the relationship between two small animals in Washington state and explain the odd relationship between them. Again this assignment is in Google classroom.

Now, go to Google classroom and get to work!

Monday, April 13, 2020

Schools in the Wachusett Regional School District are closed per order of Governor Baker. We are offering online “Distance Learning” activities to continue the education of our students.

Important links:

Monday, March 30, 2020. D18

Schools in the Wachusett Regional School District are closed per order of Governor Baker. We are offering online “Distance Learning” activities to continue the education of our students.

Important links:

Friday, March 13, 2020. Day 5

Wachusett Regional School District is closed March 16-27.

As the district leadership works with our building administrators, educators and the state Department of Education, we will make decisions about distance learning for our children.

Parents will receive notification from the superintendent when programming decisions about student instruction have been made.

Thank you for your patience.

Thursday, March 12, 2020. Day 4

Prep:

Homeroom:

Morning Advisory:

Grade 7 Agenda:

Do Now:

Please get out your data from our 10 meter sprints.

Homework:

no homework

Lesson:

Use FDSS format to:

Calculate the speed of your best sprint time.

calculate your KE during this sprint.

See me with your neat calculations to enter class data.

Finished?

Read energy transformations (393-397 in the text)

work on completing the lesson outline

Afternoon Advisory:

Grade 8 Agenda:

Do Now:

Homework:

Lesson:

Dismissal:

Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Day 3

Prep:

Homeroom:

Morning Advisory:

Grade 8 Agenda:

Do Now:

Obtain and turn on a chrome book

log in please.

Homework:

Complete the “Making of the Fittest” packet fully for tomorrow.

Lesson:

  1. ESS2-2 CA Question

    • Complete this in Google Classroom

    • It will be graded

  2. After completing this, watch the Making of the Fittest video on you tube again

    • Use the information in the video to answer the questions on the last page of the packet.

    • do not lose this packet - you may use it on an open note quiz on Friday about this lab

Afternoon Advisory:

Please remind your students that Pennies for Patients will end on Monday 16th. 

Thanks, 

Jen 

Grade 7 Agenda:

Do Now:

obtain a chrome book

have a calculator ready

Homework:

Lesson:

Forms of Energy Quiz

Online portion

Problem Solving to follow after finishing online.

When finished - calculate the speed of your best run in FDSS format.

Use S=d/t as a formula where:

s = speed, d= distance (10 meters), t = time (seconds)

Dismissal:

Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Day 2

Prep:

Reset alarm time

Homeroom:

Morning Advisory:

Grade 7 Agenda:

Do Now:

Do Now Vocab Practice Quiz

Homework:

ENERGY AND FORMS OF ENERGY QUIZ ON WEDNESDAY

STUDY GUIDE

Lesson:

Review Study guide

Measuring the KE of a thrown object.

Afternoon Advisory:

Grade 8 Agenda:

Do Now:

Write the name of each substance in the boxes arranged from least dense to most dense.

Write the name of each substance in the boxes arranged from least dense to most dense.

Homework:

Lesson:

pass back

  • gene to trait quiz

  • NOVA video worksheet

fiinish making of the fittest

THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST - STUDENT HANDOUT

GROUP ASSIGNMENT

PASSING OUT MATERIALS

STUDENT PACKET - 1 EACH

GROUP PACKET - 1 PER GRP

ASSIGNMENT EXPLANATION

COMPLETE PART 1

Dismissal:

Monday, March 9, 2020. Day 1

Prep:

Reset alarm time

Print

The Making of The Fittest - Student Handout

  • 70 individual packets

  • 26 group packets

STUDY GUIDE (35 copies gr7)

forms of energy summary table (70 copies gr 7)

Homeroom:

Morning Advisory:

Grade 8 Agenda:

Do Now:

Homework:

No Homework:

Lesson:

The Making of The Fittest - Student Handout

Group assignment

Passing out materials

Student Packet - 1 each

Group packet - 1 per grp

Assignment explanation

Complete Part 1

Afternoon Advisory:

Grade 7 Agenda:

Do Now:

Homework:

Energy and Forms of energy quiz on Wednesday

Lesson:

Around the world format

forms of energy summary table

Answer Key

Dismissal: