Monday, August 30, 2010

August 31 (A Day) and September 1 (B Day)

OBJECTIVE: Students will perform an activity in order to practice the scientific method.


WARM-UP: What is the phrase we talked about to identify independent and dependent variables?
VOCABULARY:
1) Independent variable
2) Dependent variable
3) Control
4) Constant

CLASSWORK:
1) Review Warm-Up and Vocabulary
2) Pre-Lab discussion
3) Laboratory Activity
4) Graph individual data
5) Share Data and Draw Conclusions
6) Closure

THIS WEEK'S HOMEWORK
Study for test on Thursday and Friday of this week, it will cover all of Unit 1- Scientific Method and Lab Safety

(Due Tuesday 9/8 and Wednesday 9/9):
Write out an experiment to test which fertilizer (gro-more, nutri-plant, or feed-me) causes plants to grow the most. Make sure to identify the independent and dependent variables.

HOMEWORK DUE:
none

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Test on Thursday and Friday of this week.  It will cover all of Unit 1 (Lab Safety and Scientific Method)