What's Going On: Week of 1/17-1/20

The 8th graders will be finishing up our unit of solar system formation.

The 6th graders will be learning about how the solar system formed. They will be researching this topic starting today. Yesterday, they watched a Discovery Channel How the Universe Works episode called Solar System.

By the end of the week, students will be receiving progress reports from my class.

What's Going On: Week of 1/9-1/13

I'm sorry for this late post. Here is what is going on this week. Because of state-wide standardized testing, we won't cover as much as we need to this week.

8th graders will be starting a project on solar system formation. They watched a video from the Discovery Channel series How the Universe Works on solar systems, which gave an overview of how our solar system formed. This project will go more in-depth into that and introduce terminology relevant towards understanding how solar systems formed.

6th graders started learning about the Big Bang this week. They will create a timeline of important events that occurred from the beginning of the Big Bang to the present day, 14 billion years after the Big Bang. After that, the 6th graders will perform a lab on Hubble's Law. Hubble's Law states galaxies are continuing to expand away from each other, due to the force of the explosion of the Big Bang. We will complete a kinesthetic activity on Hubble's Law.

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Today in Science Class

The 8th graders have finished their timelines on the Big Bang, so we are moving on. We'll be completing two activities today. One activity will be on Hubble's Law and the other activity will tie in with the timeline that students created.

The 6th graders have finished their notes on motion and speed. They started a lab on finding speed yesterday and will finish that lab today. Afterwards, I have worksheet that will help them practice finding speed and acceleration.

Big Bang Timeline

Today, in 8th grade science, we are learning about the Big Bang. Here is a timeline that is a very good representation of how the big bang led to our universe today.

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What's going on this week: 1/2-1/6

This week, the 8th grade will be learning about the Big Bang theory and how the solar system formed. The 6th grade science class will be studying motion and completing a lab later this week.