Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Happy New Year

Here is your week 5 homework



Week 5 homework

and here is your long overdue link to the brainpop Property changes

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Week 4 homework

Howdy folks!
     Here is homework week 4 all ready to go and your link to the Matter Changing States BrainPop.

Optical Illusions, Ernst Rutherford, tongue torture with soda (or "pop" as Minnesotans call it) and a shocking experiment inspired by the John Travoltage simulation from the previous post.  Good Luck!


--Russo

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Part of Homework week 3

Howdy folks!
     Here is the link to BrainPop States of Matter and the pdf of the homework will be online Monday if I have it scanned on time.  This week we finish exploring dissolving using M&M's.  We will compare this to other candies and see if they react the same way, and if so... why?

And here is the rest... Quarter 2 Week 3 homework 

and this link is a simulation called John Travoltage that made me laugh... it will make you laugh too as you learn about how static electricity is formed and released.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Science Simulation

Howdy!
     We are using a computer simulation to learn about how atoms and molecules behave.

Computer Simulation

Enjoy!

Monday, December 5, 2011

More homework!!!

Howdy everybody!
       Here is the link for the science homework for week 2.  

And before I forget, here is the BrainPop link For the Atomic Model

That said, our exploration to how atoms and molecules work and move are taking a tasty turn as we use M&M's to explore matter.

I just learned that we are going skiing on January 17th so mark your calenders and start scraping $25 buck together because going skiing and tubing and snow boarding beats staying in school and going to class.

--Russo

Sunday, November 27, 2011

The first homework of Quarter 2

Howdy folks!
     I hope you all have had a great break.  KK and I tested out our Disney YES program trip with 23 former 6th graders.  The trip was an unprecedented success!  I look forward to offering the trip to this year's class.






Thanksgiving was a trip... literally!  The family packed up and headed out to William O'Brain State Park where the boys discovered a tree house... so to speak.





So Quarter 2 is fast approaching and with it a new set of homework.

Quarter 2 Week 1 is due Dec 1st.

Oh yeah... and the BrainPop Measuring Matter

This quarter we will study matter and the physical properties that make matter different from each other. 

Monday, November 7, 2011

The last homework for Quarter 1.... or is it???

Howdy folks,


Here is the link to this week's homework Week 9 homework

And the link to Brain Pop's Cell Structures

That said... we are wrapping up the quarter by practicing the steps of the scientific method.  We are counting the drops of water that will fit on a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter.  Once graphed, students use this information to predict how many drops of water will fit on a silver dollar and a half dollar.

--Russo