Review for Chemistry Test

Chemistry Quiz is coming up.  If you'd like to 'test' yourself on what we've covered so far,  click here , print and fill it out.  You can check your answers here.

Then play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Review below.

The Magic that Makes Chemistry Happen

GET READY FOR CHEMISTRY!

BILLS WAY

Cartesian Diver Homework

Submarine Homework

Helping Hand --- Click on THIS WEBSITE to help you understand more about submarines!

Mass, Volume, and Density!

This guy is AWESOME!  He makes me laugh and makes me sing!!  Singalong to Mr. Edmonds to understand more........ Singalong!!!

Helping Hand of Science - MASS

Review of EVERYTHING about Volume

The Helping Hand of Science --- Kind of goofy - but if you need some review of volume of liquids, solids, displaced water - take a look.  It's LOOONG too - so just scroll to the parts where you might need review.  Comment and let me know if it helped you understand.

Gumby and Pokey

Click on the picture to view a short episode of the 6year old Mrs. Hill's FAVORITE show!

Practice Volume of Liquids

         Click on the picture and scroll through for a little more practice with graduated cylinders

Reflect Upon your Learning Behaviors

Bill Explains It Best!

Measurement

Let's practice some simple metric measurement.  Click on the picture and scroll through the tutorial to see how accurate you are.

As you go through, read the metric system information carefully and see if you can understand how it works.  The meter is the basic unit of measurement for length.

                                                                                                                 

Observation

Keen observation.  In science,  observation and data collection and analysis are key to solving problems.  Watch this clip and see if you can accurately count the number of passes made by the team in white.  Observation! 

Lab Equipment Review

Want a little more practice?  Try this Equipment Review

Laboratory equipment self review 2013 from sinnes

Lab Safety

Welcome to Sixth Grade Science!

Welcome to Mrs. Hill's  blog site - where indeed learning occurs in the oddest of places.  We'll be using our blogs throughout the year for homework and to document our learning and share information.  I find it to be a fantastic way to interact with each other and give each other feedback as we go along.   It will also become the primary learning site for our class this year.  I'm excited!  Are you?  Let's have an AWESOME year.

Bits and Bots Electricity Review

Clean Energy from Hot Air Drafts

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/solar-wind-energy-tower/

Wireless Electricity - Ask Derek!

Click on the picture to find out about Wireless Electricity.  Interesting!  Thanks, Derek

Electricity - Tim and Moby Style!

No One Explains it Better!  

Watch these twoTim and Moby clips on electricity and circuits (click on the picture - sign in as singapor, singapor). Take the quiz to see how well you understand electricity.

Hey Soon to be Teenagers... Time to Rethink Geek.... He's Changing the World!

Thanks, Derek! Check this out everyone....

Derek shared this video with me and I thought it was spectacular. Imagine being able to convert salt water into fresh water without using the enormous amount of energy needed today.  Thanks for sharing, Derek!

Elodea Lab

From the cell webquest and the onion and cheek cell labs you've learned a few fundamental differences between plant and animal cells. Both plant and animal cells have a cell membrane, but only the plant cell also has a cell wall. In the elodea lab you can clearly see the structure and function of each. The process you will see is called plasmolysis - you'll do some further reading on it in the lab. Plasmolysis in action!

Lab Part Three:

Upload the video to your blog

Go to this link and click on the diffusion/osmosis basic principal. Read about diffusion and osmosis.

Then click on the plasmolysis animation.  Watch the animation carefully. On your video blog post, explain what happened, using the following questions as a guide.

1. What happens to the cells as the salt water flows under the cover slip?

2. Why does this happen?

3.    Why didn’t the outer boundary of the cell collapse?

4. Why do plants wilt when there is not enough water?

Water Project Reflection

FIELD TRIP REMINDERS

SCROLL through the slideshow for our field trip reminders.  Do NOT forget a water bottle!!  If you need a reminder of your group and bus number - click here

2014 sungei reminder powerpoint from sinnes

SUNGEI BULOH SIGN UPS

Click on the image to sign up for your hike of choice

WEBQUEST

Today in class we're going to be 'questing' for information about cells.

Click on the cell picture to take you to the quest.  MAKE A COPY  of the document and put it in the dropbox before you begin. Fill out the document as you go along.

TAKE A BREAK - SUPER COOL RAT TRICKS!

Thanks Mr. Olsen - super cool HS science teacher - for sharing this video!

MICROSCOPE WORK

For extra practice with the compound microscope - do some virtual work using the same website as we used in our manual-virtual urchin. 
Click on the microscope icon to take you there. Peruse and work through the list of items on the left hand side of the site. It's kinda fun!  Scan the QR code for an extra little piece of information.

THE WATER PROJECT IS HERE!!!

LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

I love to see so many of you excited for this challenge!

                                                                    

For those of you who were absent - here are the guidelines:  

PROJECT GUIDELINES AND CALENDAR.  

Don't forget that you need to bring the planning sheet back to class with parent's signature before you begin.  Planning sheets and signatures - due at the end of the week.

SOLUTIONS

Created with Padlet

We've discussed global water problems and shared startling water facts.  Now let's look at some of the things people and organizations are doing to help. Check out these websites - and any others you find on your own. When you find a piece of information you'd like to share, put it on the padlet wall above, as I showed in class. Hopefully this will work! If not, then just comment on the post and share your information. There are so many wonderful organizations and inventions out there!  Here are a few.....
ICT
The water project, 
Global Water Challenge,
The Other 90 Percent,
Water.org .

When you share your information on the wall, PLEASE TRY NOT TO OVERLAP ENTRIES ONTO EACH OTHER.  You can move the wall around by dragging it and moving it right or down.  That way we'll have plenty of room for everyone.

Just move it until you find a good bit of blue, then double click and begin typing your information..Make sure you write the name of the organization or invention and also write a bit of information about it.   You can upload a picture or even video if you wish as well. Let's try to see if we can get everyone posting something different.

MICRO LIFE IN A DROP OF WATER!

Today in class you had the opportunity to see all the 'wretched beasties' in the digital microscopes.  Yuk! Here are some of mine -- Imagine drinking THAT?

 For homework tonight, upload the protist pictures and videos from class.  Comment on the types of protists or other water life you found in your samples (click here to find information about the water microbes) and then visit the sites below to find three facts about our global water problems and waterborne infectious disease.  Either add them to your blog or write them down and be ready to share in class.
Here are a few suggested sites - but you can research your own as well.   You might find better sites! Please use more than one site.                    
http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts
http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_crisis

30,000 YEAR OLD VIRUS REVIVED!

BUBONIC PLAGUE

Typoid Mary was certainly the most famous carrier in the world, but what about the most famous vector?  Is there a most famous vector too?  The mosquitos which carry dengue and malaria are well known culprits, but in the late 1800s and early 1900s it was a little fellow that lived on the rat that came to stardom.  Watch this very short segment on the bubonic plague by clicking on the picture (adapted from Science Odyssee).

Click for Homework reading and questions - Answer analysis questions 1-4 on C-18.  Answer in journal.

The full video of the the bubonic plague.  The episode starts around 4:50.

TYPHOID MARY

In class we played the role of epidemiologists, trying to find the carrier of a disease that is spreading through Sauk Junior High School.  The most famous carrier in the world was a lady by the name of Mary Malone, more commonly called "Typhoid Mary".  if we didn't finish in class or if you are absent be sure to view it.  It is a fifty five minute documentary on Typhoid Mary.  If curious.... scan the QR code.

EPIDEMICS EVERYWHERE!!

MICROBES EVERYWHERE!!!!

Public Service Announcement Guidelines

Public Service Announcement Rubric.

The Spread of Infectious Disease

Germs!

We're beginning our study of microlife and infectious disease. Bill Nye gives us an overall view of the microbes we'll be studying - in true Bill Nye fashion. Enjoy.

 

Acid Base Jeopardy and Study Guide

Acid/Base Study Guide
Test your knowledge worksheet - (If you turn in this worksheet - you will get an extra point on your quiz- evidence of studying.)

The Importance of pH

Here's a pretty good website with information on the pH of our body.  You might find it interesting.
Body pH

If you do use the pH strip at home - Please don't bring the strip into class!

Explore More about the pH Scale

Click on the picture to explore more about acids and bases.

Have fun with your Cabbage Investigation!

UNDERSTAND BIG!

This is the final week for Chemical and Physical Properties and Change!  Check your Understanding.....

THERE'S MORE STUDY RESOURCES!

1. Test yourself - CLICK -- this interactive site
2. If you want to take a practice reveiw - print this and fill it out.  
3. Then check your answers here.

Be sure to check the notes and lessons tabs on our class blog as well.

 At Home Chemistry need to be finished by Wed/Thurs. of this week.

Create some study guides of your own - whether flash cards, quizlets, review sheets..... Bring them in to class and earn some extra points on your quiz!

What Does Chemistry Have to Do with YOU?

The Magic that Makes Chemistry Happen!

Is it magic?  Or is it science?  
If you didn't get all of the notes from class today -scroll through the ppt.

Chemical and Physical Change

My heros - Tim and Moby.  Watch their clip on chemical and physical change and just like before (click on the picture) - take the quiz, print, paste in your journal. Make sure it is done by next class so we can begin our CHEMISTRY STATIONS~

If you want to start your At Home Chemistry make sure you review physical and chemical change from the notes beforehand.  The due date for that is not yet determined but you'll have at least a week to get them done.  Check supplies beforehand - and have fun!  

Chemistry with Tim and Moby

Watch Tim and Moby's  episode Chemical Equations and take the quiz.  Print your quiz results and GLUE IN YOUR JOURNAL.

We will be exploring these concepts for the next week.  I love Tim and Moby!  Moby especially - He's the man!  Tin? Robot guy/person/thing?

Click on the picture and type in your user name and password:  singapor

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