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8-18-15 Bell Ringer Why are experiments important for science?

8-19-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between kinetic and potential energy? Give one example of each.

8-20-15 Bell Ringer Where does energy come from? How did you get energy today?

8-24-15 Bell Ringer Name at least three forms of energy you see in the picture. Tell how you know it’s that form of energy.

8-25-15 Bell Ringer Define the Law of Conservation Explain what happens when you turn on an electric stove

8-26-15 Bell Ringer What is temperature? What are the three temperature scales?

8-27-15 Bell Ringer What are the tree forms of thermal energy? List an example of each type of thermal energy

8-28-15 Bell Ringer Describe a scenario of when a form of potential energy transforms into kinetic energy (use vocabulary words!)

8-31-15 Bell Ringer Draw a food web using the following items (more may be included: Sunlight An omnivore A plant A herbivore A fungus A carnivore Be prepared to discuss the energy transfer in your web.

9-1-15 Bell Ringer List the planets in order and tell one fact you know about each.

9-2-15 Bell Ringer Solar System question: What is the difference between a revolution and a rotation? Draw a diagram to explain.

9-3-15 Bell Ringer Why do the tectonic plates shift? What is the evidence that they are moving?

9-4-15 Bell Ringer Fill in this chart with the correct energy forms: Potential Energy Kinetic Energy C T G R S. M. E N S

9-8-15 Bell Ringer List 3 different items that you use daily and where the resources came from to create those items.

9-9-15 Bell Ringer What is an eclipse? How do they occur?

9-10-15 Bell Ringer List 3 different animals that live in the ocean and how they contribute to the ecosystem.

9-11-15 Bell Ringer List 3 examples of Kinetic energy and 3 examples of Potential energy.

9-14-15 Bell Ringer Compare and Contrast Kinetic and Potential Energy.

9-15-15 Bell Ringer List the four Kinetic Energies and give an example of each. (TRES)

9-16-15 Bell Ringer List the four Potential Energies and give an example of each. (C.N.G.SM.)

9-17-15 Bell Ringer List two things you learned from the energy presentations yesterday. (Must be from someone else’s presentation)

9-18-15 Bell Ringer No Bell Ringer today – Look through your notebook and be sure it is ready to be turned in. Then, place it in the crate with your class period on it. 

9-21-15 Bell Ringer What is the life cycle of a frog? Draw a small diagram in your notebook.

9-22-15 Bell Ringer List 5 differences between mammals and birds.

9-23-15 Bell Ringer Define the term “ecosystem.”

9-24-15 Bell Ringer List 5 differences between reptiles and mammals.

9-25-15 Bell Ringer What are the northern and southern hemispheres? What is the difference between them?

9-28-15 Bell Ringer What are the prime meridian and the equator? What is the difference between them?

9-29-15 Bell Ringer Name all the oceans. (Do your best with the spelling)

9-30-15 Bell Ringer Name all the continents. (Do your best with the spelling.)

10-5-15 Bell Ringer You can see me in the dark. I wear a warning to “stay away”. The great horned owl is my only predator. I raid turtle nests to feast on eggs. My scent is unforgettable. Do you know who I am?

10-6-15 Bell Ringer Draw a small diagram of the water cycle and label each of the different steps.

10-7-15 Bell Ringer Fifty teeth often make me look like I’m snarling. My ears and tail are sometimes frost-bitten. I can use my tail to hold on to a branch or carry leaves for my nest. I have an opposable thumb. I am North America’s only marsupial. Do you know who I am?

10-8-15 Bell Ringer What is something that you learned from the melting ice lab that has helped you create a better home for your penguin?

10-9-15 Bell Ringer Try to identify what the “big picture” is for each of these close ups!!

10-12-15 Bell Ringer How are math, reading and history all important to the study of science? (Write at least a sentence for each)

10-15-15 Bell Ringer What is something that you learned from Learning Blade in the Computer lab?

10-16-15 Bell Ringer List two ways that you have seen heat transfer this week in your life.

10-19-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, and scavenger?

10-20-15 Bell Ringer Why are fossils important? What role do they play in scientific history?

10-21-15 Bell Ringer What is erosion?

10-22-15 Bell Ringer Define thermal energy transfer.

10-23-15 Bell Ringer List the 3 heat transfer forms and an example of each.

10-26-15 Bell Ringer What is the greenhouse effect?

10-27-15 Bell Ringer What is Pangea?

10-28-15 Bell Ringer What is the longest river in the United States?

10-29-15 Bell Ringer Describe a hurricane.

10-30-15 Bell Ringer Describe a tornado.

11-2-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between a mechanical wave and an electromagnetic wave?

11-4-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between a transvers and a compressional wave?

11-5-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between frequency and amplitude?

11-6-15 Bell Ringer What is a wavelength? How can you find it in a compressional wave? How can you find it in a transverse wave?

11-9-15 Bell Ringer List 5 ways you have encountered sound waves today.

11-10-15 Bell Ringer Why do sound waves travel faster through solids than they do gasses?

11-11-15 Bell Ringer What is white light?

11-12-15 Bell Ringer What is one thing that you learned from the “Jigsaw” activity on Wednesday?

11-13-15 Bell Ringer Why is it important that we understand how light and sound waves travel?

11-16-15 Bell Ringer List 3 examples of waves that you have encountered in the past week.

11-17-15 Bell Ringer What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

11-18-15 Bell Ringer Identify one of the different wavelengths on the Electromagnetic Spectrum and tell one fact about it.

11-19-15 Bell Ringer Write a question you think may be on the wave test tomorrow.

11-20-15 Bell Ringer What is the difference between digital and analog signals?

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