Syllabus 12/1/08

Syllabus for the week of DECEMBER 1, 2008

Emmanuel Apostol-Percy Julian Middle School 

Blog: www.d97eapostol.blogspot.com

FOCUS: Alternative Resources & Media Center Monday, Wednesday, & Friday.

WOD: a comprehensive list of vocabulary words that will be used, studied, and quizzed the entire year. WOD will be listed in BOLD. Write the date, word, and definition in your planner each day.

ECOLOGY PPP: Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem, & Biosphere information should be included. Take time this week to make sure that review your past material and be sure that there is a theme with the rest of your slide. Remember that your personality should be reflected in your work. Due Wednesday, December 10, 2008.

REUSE PROJECT: A black leather belt will be sent home with each child. Please spend time with him/her to find an alternative use for the belt to teach them the idea of REUSE. Other material may be added or the belt may serve as an additional part to another object. Whether it is the primary or secondary component include all the details and materials needed to complete this product. Due Monday, December 8, 2008.


Monday: (QUALITATIVE) Report to the Media Center. Work on slides related to the following topics: Pollution, Resources (Non-Renewable & Renewable), Alternative Resources, & 3 R's.
HW: Scientific Process WS. Explain or give an example for each section.

Tuesday: (QUANTITATIVE) Discuss the Scientific Process & Lab Reports. How do you create a lab report (experiment)? What does each section mean? What is the purpose of Science? Giant Greens Project. What does the class think causes a plant to grow? List the variables (factors) and choose which one to experiment on tomorrow. Write down what you believe will happen if you adjust one of them (Hypothesis).
HW: #1) Write a story about what the future will look like in 10, 20, 50, or 100 years. Include all aspects of life and include WHY these things have occured. Due tomorrow. #2)List as many variables that could change the growth of the plant. Due Thursday 12/4/08.

Wednesday: (INDEPENDENT/DEPENDENT) Report to the Media Center. Work on a slide BIOSPERE slide on "What Will the Future Look Like?". This slide should include a story detailing what you see the future looking like AND what caused it to become this way. PPP is due next week Wednesday, December 10, 2008.
HW: (look at #2 homework from Tuesday)

Thursday: (VARIABLE) Plant your tomato plant. What are factors, variables, & constants? How do they relate to our experiment and our hypotheis. Create an "If, then..." statement about the plant growth. Begin creating a template of a table that can be used to gather your data on the plant growth. Choose the variable that will be used and whether your data is qualitative or quantitative.

HW: Create the table (electronic if you can) from class to monitor the progress of your plant growth until our last day before winter break. HARDER: Create two tables, one with quantitative observations and another with qualitative observations.

Friday: (CONSTANT) Report to the Media Center. Final Class period to work on your PPP on Ecology.

Reminders:
* GREEN IDEA (from students): Shop consignment store or use hand-me-downs to conserve resources.
* PARENT/GUARDIAN(S): None
* MR. APOSTOL’S ADV.: Adopt-a-family- read letter and please assist us with this service project
* DONATION: None
* NEXT WEEK: Reduce, REUSE, Recycle Project.