678 Trip to the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center - April 3rd

Students who wish to attend this trip must return the permission forms by next Friday, March 28

I give the discovery center a full count of students on this date.

Students who hand in forms after this date will not be able to participate on the trip.

6&7 Science Homework - due 3/1813

Please read section 3 of chapter 1 in the Environmental Science Text titled Interactions Among Living Things.

As you read, please add the vocabulary into your science journal, and complete the three questions at the end of the section.

We will go over this on Monday along with section 2.

6 & 7 Planting Materials needed (cleaned yogurt container)

Very shortly we will begin planting some tomato seeds that have been in the high Arctic or in the International Space Station.

In order for you to bring your tomato home, you will need a pot for it to grow in.

The best pots that I have found can be made by recycling your yogurt containers.

Please save, rinse well and bring to class any and all yogurt containers that you may use, larger or small, we can use all kinds.  If your container has a lid, rinse and bring that too.

I will be talking to everyone in class and at lunch tomorrow about how best to save your containers.

Thank you in advance for all of the containers for your plants!

678 Science Fair Materials and Procedure - due this Friday 3/15

Research Paper

Materials/Procedure

Name:____________________________________ Due Date:3/15/2013

Parent/Guardian Signature________________________ On Time? Yes/No

List of Materials

Every item that you will use to complete your experiment or project should be

listed in this section. Including the number of people you intend to survey or

use as participants.

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Describe the Procedure

The procedure describes the experiment in a step-by-step sequence. It may

help to think of the procedure as a recipe, in which every step is clearly

explained.

How will your materials be used, and how and when will they be measured?

If each step is carefully explained, another person should be able to follow

the procedure of the experiment and get the same, or similar, results.

List your procedure on a separate piece of paper either neatly handwritten or

typed.

2013 Villa Augustina Middle School Science Fair Guide

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6 & 7 Habitat posters due tomorrow

I am looking forward to seeing a huge habitat of animals in science tomorrow!

Good luck completing your posters today!

678 Snow Day - science hypothesis, reading and habitat posters reminder

No Snow Day projects today!

Please work on you science fair hypothesis, they were due today, I will collect them on Monday.

All grades should complete the reading assignments for science class, including the questions in the chapter section and vocabulary.  8th grade is reading section 3 of chapter 1, 6 & 7 grades are reading section 2 of chapter one.

6 & 7 grades, this would be a good time to work on your habitat posters that are due on Wednesday.

6 & 7 Habitat Poster Reminder

Habitat posters are due next Wednesday, 3/13/13

Use the diagram on page 10 of your text as a guide to how to set up your poster.  You can replace the prairie dog with your animal and its population and community.

Be sure to label your diagrams neatly!

We will be using the posters for an activity related to the food chains and food webs.

Please keep your posters to the size that I demonstrated in class, smaller is better, bigger will be hard to use for the activity.

I'm looking forward to seeing what our community of animals will look like!!

6 & 7 Habitat Poster due 3/13/13

You have all chosen an animal that lives in New Hampshire to research and create a habitat poster about.

Please use the example on page 11 of your text as a guide to creating your poster. 
You may draw your own pictures, take photos or use Google Images.
Site your sources on the back of your poster.

Your poster should be no bigger than a half sheet of poster board since we will be using them for another activity as we move farther into the adventure of ecosystems and how they work.

Your poster should include:

• the name of your animal and its scientific (Latin) name
• where the animal lives in New Hampshire (the whole state, northern areas only, southern areas only, in lakes, streams or at the ocean, etc)
• the resources that the animal needs in its habitat to survive
• the population of this animal in New Hampshire
• the type of community the animal lives in
• the ecosystem that supports the animals survival

You will be graded on the following: 5 points each

• Neatness
• Labels on all items (horizontal labels)
• All information is included
• All parts are identified clearly
• Images, drawings, pictures are of NH animals (no desert coyotes, rocky mountain black bears, etc)

This is due on Wednesday March 13, 2013

678 Science Fair Research Project - Hypothesis

Below is the next assignment for your Science Fair Research Project

I will be handing this out on Monday

The due date is in bold.

Research Paper

Hypothesis

Name:____________________________________ Due Date: 3/8/2013

Parent/Guardian Signature________________________ On Time? Yes/No

Make a Hypothesis

A hypothesis is a statement that predicts how an experiment will turn out, and why it will happen that way, based on what you already know. What do you think that the answer to your research question will be?

Remember, hypotheses do not need to be correct - they just need to be informed guesses. If you have enough research on this topic, then your research should help you make a good hypothesis.  

A Hypothesis is often written using an “If…, then…, because…” format.

Your research question __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Your Hypothesis based on your research (your because statement should paraphrase from your research) Use more paper if needed or type on a separate sheet of paper.

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