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If you would like to read the syllabus for the Life Science or Earth Science, please click on the links to access information such as classroom rules, the grading scale, and topics to be discussed.
One last thing that you might find interesting is a NASA picture of the day. Every picture has a great description of what you are seeing.


Enjoy!

Classroom expectations

I expect you to:

1. Always think safety first. NO HORESEPLAY IN THE LAB AREA!
2. Be in the room and prepared for class when the period begins.
3. Do your own work and work on science in science class.
4. Respect each other, yourself, and science as a worthwhile subject.
5. Follow all school rules including the dress code.
6. Take responsibility for your own actions!

I will not tolerate:
1. Swearing, offensive language, or rudeness
2. Tardiness
3. Cell phones in the classroom
4. Cheating
5. Physical Contact – hitting, kicking, pushing, etc.
6. Unsafe Actions – anything that you intentionally do that puts you or someone else in danger
7. Defiance

Monday, September 26, 2011

Practice for the 7th grade test

Chapter 8 Life's Structure and Classification

Section 1 Living things practice quiz

Section 2 How are living things classified practice quiz (I would like you to know questions 3-5)

Section 3 Cell Structure: The organelles. Practice quiz (I would like you to know questions 1, 4 &5)

Section 4 Viruses practice quiz

Chapter 8 review quiz (not questions 6, 7, 9, 12, 13)

Chapter 8 Standardized test practice (not question 2, 7)

The Summary at the end of each section contains the main points of what you just read.  The main ideas are also found in the Ch 8 study guide on page 239.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Practice for the 8th grade test

Section 1 review questions
(I do not like the way questions 14 and 15 are worded... I will not have a question on the test like these)

Section 2 review questions

You are expected to be able to balance the chemical equations in problems 7, 8, and 9 in the math practice.

Standardized test practice ... you can skip questions 7 & 8 due to repetition.

Answers to the Math Chapter 1 test

1. 15/27 < 3/5 <  2/3
2. 21.3
3. 8
4. 16.998 cents
5. D
6. they missed the perfect square of 196 (this is 14 squared)
7. 4 and 5 (you should be able to do this without a calculator)
8. 26
9. 24 (you should be able to do this without a calculator)
10. the area is the square root of 5 multiplied by the square root of 5 = 5 (square centimeters)
11. 25 cubic centimeters
12. 44,575 < S less than or equal to 70,000.... I don't have the less than or equal to symbol, so I wrote it out.
13. 18,450 < S less than or equal to 44,575.... I don't have the less than or equal to symbol, so I wrote it out.

14.
15. the square of 2 is 4 and that is an even number
16. {1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 16, 25, 32}    you need the set symbols to receive full credit
17. {1, 4, 16} you need to have the set symbols
18. Putting -3, 0, and 5 into the given inequality, you have to find which are true... {-3, 0}
19. 13 and -13
20. you have to give me 2 sets where the intersection is no answer. Here is my example
{1, 2, 3} n {4, 5, 6}                         you could have an example as easy as this {1} n {2}
21. X + (X +2) + (X +4) = 3 times X +6
22. True (-5 is an integer)
23. 130.4 meters
24. C

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Expoloratory computers...

Edit this History of Gwinnett information by following the directions provided within the document.  Save this document in your Computers folder on the h drive.


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