Science Bellwork

Week 22 - February 6-17

2/6 - We will begin to do bellwork on edmoto.com this week. If you do not have an account or are having problems posting your answer, you will need to check here for the question and e-mail it to me. What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial? If you didn't watch the Super Bowl, please say so.

Week 21 - January 30-February 3

1/30 - Who is your scientist?

1/31 - When was your scientist born? Is there anything else that happened on that date in history (not necessarily the same year)?

2/1 - What is one unusual fact you learned about your scientist?

2/2 - What is a common name for Marmota momax?

2/3 - Is your wanted poster the best possible work you could have done? (I want you to truly reflect on this and answer honestly.)

Week 19 - January 16-20

1/16 - No School

1/17 - What is the word we use for all living things?

1/18 - What are the 6 characteristics of all living things?

1/19 - What are the 4 things all living things need to survive?

Week 18 - January 9-13

1/9 - When you picked your menu items, did you pick items that would challenge you or ones that sounded interesting?

1/10 - What's one interesting fact you've learned about an animal you didn't know before?

1/11 - What are the seven levels of classification?

1/12 - Who was the scientist that came up with binomial nomenclature (you'll have to look it up!)?

1/13 - What did you enjoy most about the project? What would you change if we did it again?

Week 17

1/5 - Without looking it up, what do you think biology means? (There are no wrong answers here)

1/6 - What are three characteristics of a bird? (How can you tell it's a bird by looking at it?)

Week 16

12/5 - What is the name of the largest volcano in the world?

12/6 - Name a landform that forms from magma.

12/7 - What are the smallest lava fragments that are produced by an explosive volcanic eruption (hint: they can be as fine as powder...)?

12/8 - What are the three types of rocks?

12/9 - How do you feel about using technology for assignments?

Week 15

11/28 - What are two different types of volcanoes? (hint: there are 3 Volcano Types)

11/29 - What's the main difference between magma and lava?

11/30 - Name a part of a volcano.

12/1 - What 4 things contribute to how a volcano erupts?

12/2 - What do we call the hole left when a volcanic mountain collapses?

Week 14

11/21 - What is a mountain that forms on Earth's crust when molten material reaches the surface?

11/22 - How do you plan to spend the long weekend?

Week 13

11/14 - Next up is volcanoes... Where can you find about 75% of the world's volcanoes?

11/15 - What part of sex-ed has been your favorite so far? Least favorite?

11/16 - Where in the United States can you go to find volcanoes? Can you name a volcano in the U.S.?

11/17 - What is one thing you need to work on to make sure you succeed in school?

11/18 - Have you been doing your parent interviews...?

Week 12

11/7 - "Careful what you wish for, Miss Arpin!" What was your reaction to the earthquake?

11/8 - No bellwork - Standard of excellence celebration at the High school

11/9 - No bellwork - split classes

11/10 - Go to http://www.ready.gov/earthquakes and tell me one thing you should do during an earthquake to be safe.

11/11 - Go to http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/disaster/quake/earth.html and scroll down to "Responses Inside Buildings During an Earthquake". What is the biggest danger to people in an earthquake?

Week 11

10/31 - No School

11/1 - What did you do for the long weekend?

11/2 - What is the pattern of lines that record seismic waves?

11/3 - What type of seismic waves causes the most ground movement?

11/4 - Go to USGS.GOV and tell me where one of the two seismic stations in Kansas are.

Week 10

10/24 - What are the waves that travel through Earth caused by the energy released during an earthquake?

10/25 - What are the three types of stress that act to change rock?

10/26 - What type of fault is the San Andreas Fault?

10/27 - What do we call the part of the fault that lies above the fault angle?

10/28 - Which seismic waves travel fastest?

Week 9

10/17 - Welcome to the beginning of the 2nd 9 weeks. What is the shaking and trembling that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface?

10/18 - If you were to build a house where there's a lot of earthquakes, what would you do to make it "earthquake proof" or at least earthquake resistant?

10/19 - Another day, another question... What's the best book you've read this year? I'm counting the summer and the first 9 weeks only. I would have to say mine is 13 Reasons Why.

Week 8

10/10 - Now that we are gearing up for conferences, what do you need to do to prepare for the end of the 9 weeks (get work done, work on conference short)? Please keep in mind that there is after school homework center if you need to get caught up on missing work. After this week, I will NOT accept any assignments from this 9 weeks NO EXCEPTIONS!!!

10/11 - Write at least two complete sentences about what you learned this chapter.

10/12 - Next week, we are going to begin earthquakes. What do you already know about them?

10/13 - What goals do you have for yourself for the next 9 weeks?

Week 7

10/3 - Name a piece of evidence you can think of for the theory of continental drift.

10/4 - Who was the scientist that came up with sea-floor spreading? (note: it wasn't Einstein)

10/5 - Name at least one difference between plate tectonics and continental drift.

10/6 - No bellwork

10/7 - What are the three types of plate boundaries?

Week 6

9/26 - Next up, we will be learning about plate tectonics. What do you already know about that? (you can use what you've learned from doing this project as well)

9/27 - This weekend, I will be grading your projects. How do you think you did? What grade do you think you've earned?

9/28 - Who was the scientist that came up with the theory of continental drift?

9/29 - Where in the US can you find a transform boundary?

9/30 - Name a location from yesterday's activity and what you found interesting there.

Week 5

9/19 - Which continents are you going to include in your project? Which tectonic plates?

9/20 - How do you plan to label your project? (Attach labels/Paint them on, etc)

9/21 - What do you have left to finish on your project? Make a list and consider it your to do list.

9/22 - What do we call a boundary where the plates are moving AWAY from each other?

9/23 - What would you like to see us do for future PROS parties?

Week 4

9/12 - Are you pleased with how you are doing in class right now? What can you do to improve your grade?

9/13 - What is the correct spelling of the supercontinent that broke apart over 2 billion years ago?

9/14 - What are you using to make your Earth project?

9/15 - How deep is it from the surface of the Earth to the center?

9/16 - What materials are you using to create your project?

Week 3

9/5 - No School

9/6 - What are the two metals that make up Earth's inner core?

9/7 - Name one way in which two of Earth's spheres interact with each other.

9/8 - What is the name of the three layers in the mantle?

9/9 - What are the two places inside Earth where convection currents occur?

Week 2

8/29 - Name the 4 layers of the Earth, in order, starting from the surface going in.

8/30 - What do you like best about using the iPods?

8/31 - What do we call the force pushing on an area?

9/1 - What are the three kinds of heat transfer?

9/2 - What is the most active volcano in the world? (Hint: It's not the volcano from yesterday)

Week 1

8/22 - What is your user name for your "textbook"?

8/23 - What is your favorite thing you learned in science last year?

8/24 - What was the name of the supercontinent that broke apart billions of years ago?

8/25 - Which sphere of the earth system includes trees, grass, and squirrels?

8/26 - Name 2 things that contribute to erosion.