1. What could you invent to measure something in a new way…….
What would you call it?
How would it work?
What would it measure?
What units would it have?
Things to have out/do!
Take out old quiz and corrections!
2 students need to return it!
Take out behavior log - Peer comments
Copy Objective, HW into assignment list
Return parent letters/survey for guardians

2. Mantra - Your Turn! Today is a great day for science because:
science is power.
We are powerful because:
We always make a difference.

3. Goals
* State the Objective(s)/Standard (s)- Sci.7.1a, L.7.4b-L.7.6, RI.7.4
* State the Purpose (Big Idea) - By understanding how fossils are made, we learn our place in life, and what our future may be
SWBAT plan their own experiment topic based on student interest
SWBAT cite elements of materials and procedure report sections

4. Agenda Connections Friday Materials/ Technology Procedures
Work Time on Materials Section
Summary/ questions/ feedback

5. Connections Friday Volunteers
Science demonstration of your own choosing
NEEDS APPROVAL BY MISS K; Lasts ONLY 1 minute! OR
Describe something you know that requires a good introduction (& Why!)

6. Tools, Materials, and Technology
Make your report detailed to the point that when someone goes over your science fair work, they could repeat the project exactly the way you did.
Don’t limit what you write – put all that you use!
Do-Now:
Explain how technology is linked to measurement and new ideas

7. What are you measuring? What do you need?
** Dependent Variable
What are you measuring? What do you need?
Blue Red Green Purple

8. Materials Section Requirements You should be able to complete now!
Lists all equipment or places to be used in project
Explains experimental design and variables
Describes method of data collection
Describes method of analyzing data
Strategic full points: Includes appropriate research and topic; May use relevant outside information of a formal or informal nature; Identifies all important aspects of the scientific problem and shows understanding of the relationships between them.
Communication full points: Gives a complete response with a clear, unambiguous response; Presents strong supporting evidence where appropriate; Writing is relatively free of grammatical and spelling errors.

9. Your Turn What would happen if it were not?
Describe how a successful procedure should be written and why it needs to be that way.
What would happen if it were not?

10. What is wrong with the following? How can they be fixed?

11. Your Turn
3. Create a picture cereal label to tell someone in a foreign land how to properly eat cereal.

12. Procedure Section Requirements
Clear, numbered, specific list of all steps in the correct order to be taken during experiment

13. HW: Writing a simple how-to:
Write a detailed step-by-step procedure for how to make a paper airplane.
Due Tuesday… If you don’t write it, we don’t make them!
Be as detailed as possible
Include pictures/ drawings if possible
Sample How-To!

14. Last Items/ Questions Review Project Packet & have a guardian sign it!
Class cup starts again Monday!
Calendar on Class Website outlines when sections due
Office Hours Tomorrow 12-2 at McDonald’s
COLLECT REPORT PACKETS – I will grade intro/materials
HW: How-To due Tuesday
Wait to do: Procedure due next Friday

15. GO GO FEEDBACK FRONTIER!
Miss K – In my baggie (Comments on my teaching, living up to my goals, and any personal things you need to privately tell me)
Your peers – Feedback to 1 or 2 people… What is something you saw him/her do that matched up with our class values? Why was it really great to see this?

16. Paper return/ Grade Sheet Update
No.
Name of Assignment
Unit Name
Date
Points Earned 1.
How Do You Know
Inquiry
8/10/16
/10 2.
Community Map
8/15/16 /7 3.
Scientific Method Quiz
8/18/16
/16 4.
Biweekly Test #1
RI/RL
8/25/16 5.
Fossil Performance Task
8/29/16 /4 6.
Introduction Section
Materials Section
9/2/16

17. Performance Task Rubric