2 - Aquatic Science-2nd Period Assignments

Choose a song, artist, or genre!!

Can you believe it? We are finally here. The end of the year.

Please share with me your thoughts and ideas. I do encorporate student suggestions from past years....

Please take some time and put some thought into your answers. I appreciate you.

Hello all!

Let's get to know some fish in our area!

1. Choose your fish randomly
2. Research your fish and fill out the Indirect Questions, then build the profile on pages 3 and 4 - you have 45 minutest to complete this part.
 a. potential websites: 
- https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/water/aquaticspecies/


- https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/#fish
3. We will set - up the room for speed dating - everyone will meet one fish at a time, presenting themselves, asking questions, then the other fish goes. After 5 minutes total, everyone rotates!

Use this list to find your root word meanings!!!

Please add or upload pictures from class to this assingment!


Or you can email them to me: [email protected]

Hello all!
 
1. QOD
2. Fish notes and diagram
3. Fish dissection!!!

Patrick, here we come!

1. Notes on seastars
2. Feed fish
3. Dissect Seastar!!

Hey all!

Short class today!

1. QOD
2. Test tanks/maintain tanks
3. Crustaceans!!

Hello all!

Today we will enter, manipulate and analyze your data from the year-long field investigation of Tule Creek! AND give your tanks some love.

1.  QOD
2.  Enter data
3. Tank work
4. Analyze data, make graphs, complete data trends questions.
 a. graphs to make: 
       - Water temp and air temp by dates
      -  D.O. and water temp by dates
     -    Your choice

Hello all!

We will finish My Octopus Teacher and move onto another cephalopod - the squid!!

1. Finish Movie
2. QOD
3. Introduction to Squid
4. Dissect Squid!

That is right, I am letting an Octopus take over the class!

1. QOD
2. Test tanks
3. CPR
4. Begin 'My Octopus Teacher'

This is it! Time to polish up the paragraphs, data, pictures and posters!

1. QOD
2. Finish Project - attach your project to this assignment!!!
3. Test Tanks - give some love to your fish!!

Happy Tuesday!

1. QOD
2. Finish experiment - test pH of each solution, weigh shells
3. Work on Results, Discussion, Conclusion
4. Feed fish

Hey all!

Today you continue working in your groups - you will get your introduction paragraphs back, and you can now work on the next three sections of your major grade.


1. Post - test in Eduphoria: https://bit.ly/3kpfvRx
  a. use your lunch number/student ID 
  b. google password
  c. Vander Pluym - Aquatic Science POST test
2. QOD
3. Introduction to OA returned
4. Spread out the work of the group: combine introduction to OA paragraph, work up introduction to experiment, materials and methods, results prep

Hello all!

Happy Monday!!

Today is a workday. You will focus on the last section of the Ocean Acidification lab report and paper.

Below you will find the document you will turn in after today's work in groups. You can use a paper version if you choose!!

1. One person in your group will make a folder in google drive and share it with everyone. 
2. You will put all the pictures and work documents in here so everyone has access to eachother's work.
3. Today, you will focus on researching 3 solutions to Ocean Acidification
  a. Explain the solution.
  b. Explain how the solution helps ocean acidification.
  c. Describe how we can convince humans to do this solution (be creative on this one!! What do YOU think will work help?)
4. Decide as a group if you will communicate these three solutions as:
   a. part of the paper in paragraphs and pictures
   b. or as a poster
   c. or as a trifold pamphlet
   d. or as a video that you all make
5. Design the outline, layout, or storyboard for this section of the project.
6. Do as much work as you can on the draft before you turn it in today.

Hello all!

Today we begin the Major Project on Ocean Acidification! 
1. QOD - do this today!
2. DUE TODAY - each person has to do some research, make a list of ideas for the Introduction to Ocean Acidification and write/type a draft paragraph.

Below you will find:
- Ocean Acidification Lab Report and Paper - this is a description of the project
- Project Timeline - complete with multiple due dates
- Project Rubric - expectations and point values
- Multiple articles to to help with research
- Links to videos that will be helpful
- Links to articles that will be helpful

Video:

KEDT NOVA video: https://kedt.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvls-sci-acidification/what-is-ocean-acidification/#.WepH_CiGO71
NOVA effects on ocean critters: https://kedt.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/nvls-sci-researchingimpacts/researching-impacts-ocean-acidification/

NOAA Ocean Acidification: https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification#:~:text=NOAA's%20Ocean%20Acidification%20Program%20serves,as%20fisheries%20and%20coral%20reefs.

Articles:

Understanding Ocean Acidification: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-ocean-acidification

NOAA Ocean Acidification: https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification

CO2 and Ocean Acidification: Causes, Impacts, Solutions: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/co2-and-ocean-acidification#:~:text=The%20most%20effective%20way%20to,the%20harm%20to%20marine%20ecosystems.

Research for more sources!!!

Hello all!

Today we begin an experiment that will be central to a Major Project!
1. Add a new section and return work
2. Feed Fish
3. Review last week's lab.
4. QOD
5. Notes on Ocean Acidification
6. Begin Ocean Acidification experiment with oyster shells.

Welcome back, everyone!!! It is wonderful to be with you all again.


Today we are going to lavish some love on our tanks and critters. Then find out if those crazy Norwegians and the one Swede make it Polynesia on a raft....


1. Test and Care for aquarium ecosystems
2. Discuss Oyster Cultivation - Wednesday talk - the Oyster Company
3. Finish watching Kon-Tiki
4. QODs about Kon-Tiki - what happened????

Happy Monday!


We finally dive into the full on open ocean. I hope you are ready, because it is quite a ride.


1. QOD
2. Ocean Currents Notes
3. Ocean Currents Lab
4. Tank testing....

Hello all! 


1. QOD
2. Oyster worksheet - finish
3. Tank testing and binder turn in
4. Lab clean-up

Hey all! 

We delve into oysters as the ecosystem engineers of the estuary.

1. QOD
2. Oyster introduction notes and activity
3. Oyster dissection

Hello all!

We continue our fun with plankton with bigger microscopes!

1. Reflection
2. Return work, science notebooks
3. Test tanks
4. Microscopes and plankton

Hey all!

Happy Friday! Woo hoo!


Today's message: https://youtu.be/PJK5DyfWssQ

Announcement: WE ARE GOING ON A FIELD TRIP ON NEXT WEDNESDAY DURING CLASS TO THE BAY EDUCATION CENTER!

Today, you all are going to choose some topics and ocean facts that you think are interesting and tell me about them.

1. Feed fish and make sure tanks look good for the weekend.
2. You will research Ocean Facts and summarize them on a worsheet the sub will pass out
   a. go to NOAA's National Ocean Service Ocean Facts: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/
   b. Click on a topic that you are interested in and choose one Ocean Fact to read and summarize.
   c. Do this for 2 more topics/facts.
3. Share one of your facts with your class and vote on which one is the most interesting!!
4. Turn in your sheet to the drawer.

Hello all!

I hope you are well. I miss you! Life is pretty boring at home. Thank goodness for the chickens, dogs, and cats!

Please do your best to show the substitute how well you know your tank systems today!
1. You all will have 25 minutes to test your tanks AND RECORD THE DATA IN YOUR BINDERS WITH NOTES!
2. Don't forget to add water, clean off filters, and change water if you need to - explain what you are doing to the sub!
3. Please put all of the testing solutions and equipment back nice and organized and plugged in for the next classes.
4. QOD - Week 24 below
5. Chapter 11: Bays and Estuaries - you will read the chapter and answer the accompanying questions.

Hello all!


LAST CHANCE to turn in your Major Grade packet about estuaries!


1. 10 - 20 minutes to finish the packet.
2. QOD
3. Short notes about salinity and density
4. Salinity and Density lab!

Good morning party people!


Today we will do a couple of things and then FINISH your major grade packet. Who can get the best oyster farm rating?????


1. QOD
2. The Story of my Tank...
3. Finish Major Project - https://waterstothesea.org/CoastalBendEstuaries/#
4. If there is time - Test tanks, finish backdrops

Hello all!


First thing - we will do ROOT WORDS: Estuar, Sal, Brac (german root)
--- IF YOU ARE ABSENT, do the google slides below following the directions for root words as if you were in class. This is part of a grade!

WATCH today's video lesson: https://youtu.be/LDXnkecTiCM

Today's assignments are following a program designed by Texas A&M and other partners that use video and a game to teach us about our estuaries! This region is called the Coastal Bend and we are smack dab in the middle!

You will go to a website and watch videos and answer questions. You will also play an oyster reef building game to figure out what oysters need for salinity in order to be successful.

Follow the directions on the assignments. WATCH the video lesson and I orient you to the website and what I expect you to complete!

Enjoy getting to know your area....
 
1. QOD 
2. Root words: Estuar, Sal, Brac (German root)
3. AT HOME/ABSENT: WATCH the video lesson.
2. Open the Google doc - Estuaries in the Balance_the Texas Coastal Bend
3. Open this website: https://waterstothesea.org/CoastalBendEstuaries/
4. Follow the instructions of watching each segment of the program and answering questions about Estuaries on the way. You should pause the video to write down the answers or go back to hear things again. Each video is 5-7 minutes.

Happy Monday, y'all!

1. QOD
2. Finish Benthic Macroinvertebrate Lab and questions
3. Test tanks
4. Finish backdrops for tanks

Hello all!

Lab day - how can the living things in the stream help us assess water quality?

1. QOD - #1 only
2. Root words: Benth, vertebr, In, Macro - VIRTUAL students at home sick do the root words slides, everyone else we will do these in class!
3. Benthic Macroinvertebrates quick notes
4. Macroinvertebrates Lab!!

Hello all! 


1. QOD
2. Enter data from Winter Tule Creek sampling - go into the Data topic
3. Look at data trends between Fall and Winter sampling
4. Test tanks
5. Root words to prepare for Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Benth, Vertebr, Macro, In

Hey all!


It is Friday, woo hoo!


1. QOD
2. Work in your pairs and finish the Stream ecosystem Food Web - with colors!
3. Prepare for Next Week's field trip to Tule Creek! Winter Sampling, let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Hello all!


1. Root words activity in scientific notebook Ecology section (if at home, do this on a google doc and attach to this assignment):
   Auto -
   Hetero - 
   - troph
a. For each root word find the meaning by going to your GC Resources section - Root words and meanings - open the HB Biology roots pdf.
b. write the meaning.
c. look up two words that have the root at the beginning for Auto and Hetero, and end for troph and write them down.
d. Choose one of the words and write a sentence.
e. Do this for each root word.


2. QOD


3. Test tanks - all parameters


4. Work in pairs: Food Web - design a food web for a stream in Texas


5. Introduction to using the presence or absence of Benthic Macroinvertebrates (BUGS and SLUGS) as indicators of water quality.

Hello all!

Happy Monday! Today we are getting into the why behind the what - we have been sampling and building ecosystems all year but we have not been doing this knowing why things are present in an area and how they work within that area.

Ecosystems - Let's gooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

1. QOD - What do you remember from Food Webs waaaaaay back in elementary and middle school???
2. Read through the slides - Introduction to Ecosystems
3. Complete a packet in class.

Hello all!

You all are going to learn more about your state's rivers and share it with me!

1. QOD
2. Conduct your River Research
a. Draw a major river from the slips of paper in class.
b. Open the River Research assignment below OR make a flipbook display with 3 sheets of paper and one piece of cardstock.
c. Use three sources - Wikipedia does not count. Here are some suggestions:

https://texasalmanac.com/topics/environment/rivers

https://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/pwd_rp_t3200_1047/index.phtml

https://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/states/texas/texas-river-map.html

Grading criteria - Slides 1 - 9 are worth 10 points a piece. Creativity - 10 points

Hello all!


Today we continue the "fishless cycle" of establishing the bacteria community in your aquarium ecosystems so the nitrogen cycle can be established before putting any other live creatures in there!


1. Fluency card sort activity.
2. Test Tanks - Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature and Salinity (saltwater group).
3. QOD - work together as a group to answer this.
4. Notes on Rivers!!

Hello all!


Friday is here! We are going to add Bacteria and you all are going to design creative mini-lessons for how and why to test for individual parameters.


1. QOD
2. Tank testing information and mini-lesson design and presentations
3. Test tanks
4. Add Bacteria and unplug filters.

Hey, hey, hey! 


We continue on in our journey through maintaining an aquarium ecosystem....


1. QOD
2. Fluency
3. Update Fishing Report
4. Keeping your fish alive notes
5. Test tanks and add Bacteria!!

Welcome back!!!


I hope everyone's break has you refreshed and ready to rumble with some aquarium ecosystems!!


1. Reflection in notebooks
2. QOD
3. Fluency - water quality matching
4. Finish setting up tanks - cord management and labelling, fix filters if needed....

Happy Thursday y'all!!


Today we continue our journey into Aquarium Land!


1. QOD
2. Update Fishing Report
3. Work on your tanks in groups
4. Brainstorm in aquarium groups.

Hey all!


We finally made it to building our aquaria!! BUT, we need to finish our maps and posters first.


1. QOD
2. Finish maps and posters
3. Update fishing report
4. Aquarium Ecosystem notes - paper notes in class. Come get a copy if you are going to be absent.
5. Groups and aquarium building!

Hey all!


Today we start with a QOD, will go through a review and take a quiz (you may use your science notebook for the quiz).


1. QOD

Hey all!


Today we will continue mapping the school grounds and transferring your notes onto a large map.


1. QOD

Hello all!


We continue our focus on watersheds and turn our attention to the RFHS campus.


1. In class we will reflect on a quote from Maya Angelou in our science notebooks.
2. QOD.
3. Update our fishing report - go to the Data section and open the fishing report spreadsheet then update the past few weeks worth of data from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department website.
4. Map inputs into our local watershed from the RFHS campus.

Hey all!


Today you will begin with answering the QOD below.


THEN, we will get in our groups and go to work on creating the watershed of your dreams!

Hey all!


We continue our journey into understanding where our water comes from and why as well as what forces have impacted that water before we ever see it!


1. QOD


2. Watersheds vocabulary practice and kahoot!
 a. Open the Watersheds - Article
 b. Read the material and answer the questions thinking about the vocabulary that you worked on last class.
 c. When you are done go to this kahoot and keep trying until you get a 100: enter your name with a number for each try (example: Mrs. VP1, Mrs. VP2) and you will win a PRIZE once you reach a score of 100: https://kahoot.it/challenge/05752949?challenge-id=3c39c630-c660-40eb-a561-b7c05de54020_1634676203980


3. Open the Texas Watershed Viewer and type in Rockport. Look at our watershed, zoom in and out and you will see our river basin, watershed and subwatersheds.
   a. https://tpwd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=2b3604bf9ced441a98c500763b8b1048


4. Now we are going to run a watershed video game to investigate the effects of soil types and land cover on watersheds
  a. Open the Watersheds Modeling virtual runoff simulation: https://runoff.modelmywatershed.org/
  b. Read the instructions to the simulator and then open the simulator using the link in the document.
  c. Set your soil types, ecosystems, land cover and more then run the simulator - answering the questions in the document as you go.


5. In class we will begin designing our own watersheds in groups.

Hello all!

A review and something new!!!

1. QOD
2. We are going to do a review reading and answer questions.
3. Socratic seminar - A Plastic Ocean

Good morning!!


IN CLASS:
1. QOD
2. Water quality sampling practice: use our equipment: pH, salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, temperature, temperature


ON-LINE:
1. QOD
2. Go on a virtual tour of an amazing aquatic ecosystem in Colombia that the people have protected because it is the source of an entire region's water. Answer the questions on the google doc while watching the video!
a. Go to this link for the virtual field trip video: https://youtu.be/lbbAKqXGAF8
b. complete the google doc questions - Journey through the Paramo.

Hey all!

In class we will finish our Dissolved Oxygen lab questions together. Then we will move onto two other measurements of water quality: turbidity and salinity.

IN CLASS:
1. QOD - answer question #2 or both if you need to catch up!
2. Finish the DO Lab and questions.
3. Turbidity and Salinity introduction.
4. Use our stream sampling equipment to sample salinity, turbidity, pH, Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature of 4 different samples of water from all over Rockport (and one inside the class of your choice!).

ON-LINE or ABSENT
1. QOD #2
2. Open the Turbidty worksheet.
3. Watch the video from the link at the top of the worksheet.
4. Open the Turbidity fact sheet, answer the questions on the worksheet following the fact sheet and what you learned in the video.

Hello all!

Today we dive into Dissolved Oxygen - the oxygen that everything that lives underwater uses to live! Gas dissolves in water - did you know that?

EVERYONE:

Here we go:
1. QOD - start us off with the QOD below as usual.
2. Open the Dissolved Oxygen Fact Sheet. Read this.
3. Open the Dissolved Oxygen Worksheet in Your Work. 
  a. You will answer these questions using the Dissolved Oxygen Fact Sheet.
  b. You will also look for answers in the Dissolved Oxygen slides.
  c. There is also the Dissolved Oxygen reading if you are still having trouble understanding what dissolved oxygen actually is!

IN CLASS:

4. After completing the worksheet, we will conduct a Dissolved Oxygen Lab!

Happy Monday!!

On-line students only:

1. Open the QOD and answer question #2. You already answered #1 last week. If you missed it, you can answer both.

Happy Wednesday!!


EVERYONE:


1. Open the QOD and answer question #2. You already answered #1 on Monday. If you missed it, you can answer both.


In Class:


2. pH Lab!!!!

Hello all!


WATCH ME video lesson for the day: 

https://youtu.be/xjwuPl72rLI (Start on minute 5:53 and do not do the lab)

Today we are going to do multiple things! We will start with something new. We will begin our collection of local fishing report data. Then we move onto the QOD into the main lesson which focuses on Water Quality and pH.

IN CLASS and AT HOME:

1. Fishing Report Data:
   a. In google classroom go to the Data topic.
   b. Open the Fishing Report Data assignment (DUE on May 13)
   c. You will follow the directions in that assignment - going to Texas Parks and Wildlife website link and putting the fishing report into the excel data sheet. We will do this every week to track our local aquatic wildlife!

2. QOD - Question of the Day Week 6

3. Water Quality introduction and pH deep dive. 
   a. Open the pH Slides for 3 - 2 - 1 and read through the first 6 slides.
   b. Open the pH Discovery 3-2-1 google doc.
   c. For each pH slide (7 - 11)  fill out a section of the google doc pH Discovery 3-2-1.
   d. the directions tell you to read each slide, and for EACH slide, fill out three things you learned, 2 questions you have, and 1 thing you want to learn more about in that slide.

Hey all!


We will start with a QOD then we will finish up the Climate project assigned last week.


IN CLASS:
1. QOD
2. Finish Climograph and RFHS weather
3. Complete a Climate project for another location in slides or make a poster (last week's Climate assignment slides)


AT HOME:
1. QOD
2. Finish the Weather and Climate assignments from last week.
  a. Weather data on last Wednesday Week 4
  b. Climate slides for Rockport and another location from Friday, Week 4 that is due TODAY.

Hello all!


WATCH ME: Video lesson that explains our new material and the project that you are responsible for AT HOME:  https://youtu.be/m3wWbuSFLlw



This video shows you how to take a screenshot with a chromebook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIa_pqjyZs

1. DO the QOD FIRST!!!

2. Go through the climate project slides. They teach us about what climate is and how we look at climate data.
3. At the end of the slides, there is a description of what is expected of you for the Climate Project.
4. You will complete a description of the climate for Rockport AND one other city in the world. It will be in the form of slides (you will need at least 3 for each city/region) or you can make a poster in another app you like (Canva.com, Adobe Spark), you could also make it into a movie if you wish. If you want to make a physical poster you can as well and take a picture of it. Each slide show or poster should include this information for each city:

a. Type of Climate - description of what it is like throughout the year in terms of temperatures and rainfall.
b. Climograph - graph with average rainfall in inches by month overlayed with temperatures in degrees F - you
can find this on the websites above - take a screen shot and crop the picture when it is in the slide.
c. Latitude and Longitude of the city.
d. Key Features - bays, beaches, mountains, what physical features are present in the landscape.
e. Extreme weather in the area (what extreme events are possible in the area)
f. Annual high temperature
g. Annual low temperature
h. Average Precipitation
i. Images - make these slides or posters attractive with images!!

Websites to find climate information: For the US: https://www.usclimatedata.com/ and For the world: https://en.climate-data.org/ - you can use any others as well, but put in the slides or poster which sites you used!

Hello all!

Wednesday is here - woo hoo! We are going to dive into Weather and Climate today.

IN CLASS:

1. Return work and organize scientific notebook.
2. QOD 
3. Weather notes
4. Complete Weather satellite data collection for Rockport, TX.
5. Collect weather data around RFHS in small groups!

AT HOME:

1. QOD
2. Open the Weather slides below and read through them.
3. Collect your own weather data from satellite sources: Complete the REMOTE: Weather vs. Climate sheet below - BOTH pages!
 a. First you will go to 3 different weather websites to collect current weather data for Rockport.
 b. The second page - you will choose which weather website you like best and look up and record what the current weather is in 3 other locations in Texas.

Hello all!!


Today we are going to do a few things!


IN CLASS:
1. Current Event in Aquatic Science - we will decorate our hall with current events!
2. Begin our first Project - Properties of Water.
 a. We will watch an introduction video below about the properties of water.
 b. You will look through slides introducing you to more of the science behind those properties.
 c. In groups you will design your own mini lesson and demonstration that will be given on Thursday on ONE of the properties of water.


Materials to help you: 


Properties of Water slide show, both videos - one we watch together, one by the Amoeba Sisters, the internet!


AT HOME LEARNERS: 
1. Open the Current Event in Aquatic Science doc and complete it finding a current event that has anything to do with aquatic science!


2. Watch the first video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eNSnj4ZfZ8


3. Watch my mini lesson describing your project: https://youtu.be/7pUbW8Rinr4


4. Open the assignment slides: Remote learners: Properties of Water Intro
 a. Follow the directions choosing one property of water and filling in the slides with the information each one asks you to include about that property of water. If you have questions, watch my mini lesson again and then send me a comment.
b. You can customize the slides as you wish as long as you include what is required for the project!


Materials to help you: 


Properties of Water slide show, both videos - one we watch together, one by the Amoeba Sisters, the internet!

Happy Thursday!


IN CLASS:
1. Finish Bubbleology Lab write-up.
2. Scientific Notebook - goal setting, scientific method section
3. Current events 


REMOTE/AT HOME:
1. Finish the Heart rate Lab from Tuesday - you can go to Tuesday, Week 2 and finish that lab.
2. Goal Setting - these will go in your scientific notebook when you return to school!
   a. open the Where will I be in..... document
   b. Take some time to think, dream, and open your mind to what the future can hold
   c. Write out the goals on the sheet. If you want to do art work as part of your goals, you can write out a paper version and take a picture of it and attach it to this assignment.


3. Catch up on any Questions of the Day or unsubmitted work.

4. Feel Better and have a great weekend!

Hello all!

Today we are going to do a few things. EVERYONE will take the Pre-test and do the QOD.

In Class and Remote:

1. Take the Aquatic Science Pre-test - REMEMBER-you are not supposed to know the answers, so don't cheat or look anything up! Rush right through it.


You will take this today AND at the end of the year to see if I am a good teacher!
   a. Log in to EDUPHORIA. This is taking the place of DMAC. Click on this link: https://bit.ly/3kpfvRx or the login below.
  b. Use STUDENT ID NUMBER/Lunch number and password for your chromebook/google classroom
  c. You should see a screen with your name in the upper lefthand corner.
  d. Click on the VANDER PLUYM Aquatic Science Pre-Test
 e. Take the test - don't TRY, this is some of what we learn this year.
2. Open the QOD - Question of the Day Week 2 and take some time to think then answer to the best of your abilities.

IN CLASS
3. We will conduct the Bubbleology Lab.

REMOTE Students:

3. You will complete the Heartrate lab!
  a. Open the Hearth Rate Lab below and follow the instructions.
  b. All you need is yourself and something to use for a timer. If you can get the family in on this, it will be more fun. The fish were not interested
  c. Myself and a few others made this video to show you how to do the lab! It is rather entertaining: https://youtu.be/zG1fLVg0UBI

Happy Friday!!!! We made it through the first mini- week! I am proud of us.


This Assignment:
1. QOD - Scientific Method Week 1
   - watch the video if you are at home or not if you are in class!
   - think about the question for 60 seconds - set your phone or chromebook timer.
   - answer the question


2. Open the Scientific Method 2021 slides below.
  - read through them very slowly to review the Scientific Method
 - ANSWER THE FINAL SLIDE - THIS IS A GRADE!!


3. Have a great weekend and I will see you next Tuesday! Bring your Composition book or let me know if you need one.

Open up the google form below and take a full 2 minutes to think what you would like to learn about in this class.

Hello!


If you were unable to join us in class please fill out the survey below so I can get to know you more!


Here are my answers:


Jenny Vander Pluym
I did not participate in any competitions
I did not work!! Yeah!
I speak some Spanish
I at a lot of BBQ - pork is my favorite - ribs!
I left Rockport and visited San Antonio
I left Texas and went to Arizona, and a road trip up North: Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado
I celebrated my birthday this summer, it only happens in the summer!
This summer I:
rode a bike
went fishing
watched fireworks
went swimming in a pool, river, lake and ocean
played games with my family - dominoes, exploding kittens, card games
ate a lot of popsicles


Now you go!


I look forward to meeting you soon!