Room number 800
Voice Mail (407) 623-1462 ext.491
Welcome to 2008 - 2009
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This link parentaccess.ocps.net should take you to Progressbook
WHETHER YOU REALIZE IT OR
NOT, WHETHER YOU ACCEPT IT
OR NOT, YOU ARE COMPLETELY
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHOICES
YOU MAKE.
IF YOU MAKE BAD CHOICES, BAD
THINGS WILL HAPPEN -- MAYBE
NOT RIGHT AWAY, BUT
EVENTUALLY.
IF YOU MAKE GOOD CHOICES, IT
IS CONSIDERABLY LESS LIKELY
THAT BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.
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SCIENCE
Mr. Hoeppner room 800
Welcome to 7th Grade Science. You can make this year in science very different and exciting, your attitude and cooperation will shape this year. Orange County Schools mandates the material that we will cover and you help me determine how we will cover that material.
I will try to keep two weeks of assignments listed on the board and updated most Wednesday evening. It is your responsibility to keep up with the work and make sure it is turned in.
You will be keeping a notebook containing only your science material. Your notebook will contain ALL the work you do in science class, in the order we do the work. I would suggest you keep a table of contents. It is important to save your returned papers. They are your receipts for your grades. The following outline will help you understand how your grade is determined.
I. ACTIVITIES WILL BE:
1. completed without excessive talking. (noise ???)
2. done efficiently.
3. done leaving the work station in order.
4. done with proper care given to the equipment.
5. done following all safety rules.
II. CLASS WORK
a. being quiet and ready to work when class starts.
b. not leaving until dismissed by the teacher.
c. keeping notebook up to date.
d. raise hand for permeation to talk
e. homework.
f. turning in papers:
1. on time.
2. in the proper location.
3. on standard size notebook paper.
4. with your full name, period, date and assignment on the upper right of the paper.
5. stapled, if more than one page.
6. papers not handed in with the rest of the class will be HANDED TO the teacher.
7. if you are absent, it is YOUR responsibility to make up the assignment.
III. MATERIALS
a. You are expected to come to class with all necessary materials including:
Notebook, planner, paper, pencil and any additional materials specified by your teacher.
b. You are to bring a book of your choice, every day, for reading.
c. Book bags must be kept on or under your desk, not in the walk ways.
IV. MAKE UP WORK
a. When you are absent from class, You are responsible for checking the board,
web page or asking your teacher for make up work when you return.
b. If you miss an announced test, lab or quiz you will be expected to ask to make it up.
V. DAILY QUESTIONS
Each day at the beginning of class you will have some questions to copy
and answer during class. If you are absent, you will still be responsible for the daily
questions. Get them from a friend the web, clip board or see me.
You may use a text or other sources to help you. this will be your best
study guide for tests. Place the day number and date at the top of each set
of questions. Write each question, skip lines for your answers before starting the
next question.
Please share this information with your parents and keep it in your notebook
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Student print name
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Parent: This Material Subject to Change Without Notice EH-08/09
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We will be using a program called Interactions in Physical Science http://cpucips.sdsu.edu/assets/ics_course_overview.pdf
The InterActions program is not a typical textbook program. In parts of this program, students learn as they would in a traditional science course, from reading and from listening to the teacher. However, in InterActions, students do much more than that. They will also conduct experiments, collect evidence, and be guided in figuring out many science ideas just as real scientists do. Students will record their science ideas in a workbook or record book.
Periodically, the teacher will hand out Scientists' Consensus Ideas sheets. Students will be able to see that the ideas they developed in class are the same as the formal science ideas! In addition to learning science, this process will give them valuable life skills such as the ability to think critically, to analyze situations, to explain their ideas, to collaborate with others, and to evaluate explanations.
The best way for your student to get the most from this program is to attend every class and to participate. You can help by asking questions about science class several times a week. In addition to class participation, the best way for your student to prepare for the quizzes and exams is to review the activity and practice record sheets, and to compare the ideas recorded there to the ideas on the Scientists' Consensus Ideas sheets.
I hope you have a wonderful and meaningful learning experience this Year.
CHECK OUT THE Student Page FOR INTERACTIONS IN PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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PLANNER SUGGESTIONS
Or comebacks for all the excuses your child
may try if the planner isn't signed.
- It's the student's responsibility to write down what was done in class and any homework assignment and take the planner to the teacher at the end of the period to be initialed.
- If there is no homework, the student must write "none" or "no HW" and it still must be signed.
- If the student says the homework is finished, ask to see it.
- If a student is afraid of being late to the next class, the teacher can put the time on the planner that it was initialed and that will be the pass to the next class.
- A substitute can sign the planner.
As a check on how the week went, write in bold, colored lettering, "Please give weekly progress," at the top of each Friday's column. That way you won't need to wait until progress reports to learn if assignments weren't turned in, about poor test scores, etc. Email or leave voicemail on Thursday reminding the teachers that you are requesting weekly progress report on Friday. It is still the student’s responsibility to ask for this report.
This system usually works very well, if a few things occur:
- The parent consistently checks and signs the planner each night.
- A contract is written, signed by both of student and parent(s), put on the refrigerator (or another prominent location), that states exactly what classes you expect to be initialed by the teachers (all six classes, only the academic classes, only math?) and what occurs if the planner is not signed. For that night only, the student loses a privilege or earns back something that was taken away, if the planner is not properly completed and initialed. Choose something that "pushes your child's buttons": 30 minutes of television, telephone, basketball, Nintendo, or whatever you know will motivate the desired actions.
- If the consequences need to be enforced, follow through. Calmly tell your child that you are sorry that he/she did not choose to follow through as spelled out in the contract, but because of breach of contract, then there's no (television… phone… insert designated consequence here) that night.
Other Helpful Tips:
Expect at least one hour spent on school work each night. The following order is suggested:
Complete all homework.
Review what was covered in class that day and the day before and for upcoming tests. This helps to put it into long-term memory.
Work on any assigned projects.
If there is nothing else that needs to be done, read, read, read.
If your child needs help with homework, especially in math, there is assistance available through our After School Zone program, run at Maitland MS through the YMCA. Registration forms and weekly schedule available in the front office. Bus transportation also provided. To be sure that your child is going to the Homework Help or Math Help class and not to Spectacular Sports (a common situation), in the planner on the heading on the far left side for the last elective block, write in “Homework Help” or “Math Help” and require that the teacher initial it each day your child stays.
Some Hints to Help Your Child Have the Most Successful Year Possible
- Help your child set up a weekly calendar that shows the hours of each day, writing in all activities, chores, church, scouts, etc. and blocking out time for school and homework.
- Set up a schedule for homework, preferably in an area without distractions, but where you can monitor progress. Whether it should be right after school or after time to relax is up to the parent; different schedules work best for different students.
- Have materials needed for school work at hand, such as extra paper, pens, pencils, erasers, dictionary, pencil sharpener, white out, colored pencils, markers, scissors, etc.
- Check through the backpack and notebooks to help with organization.
- The first time, dump everything out of backpack onto floor or table.
- Help sort papers into separate piles for each subject.
- Put all papers for each subject into proper notebook for that subject, in chronological order. [Insist that your child dates every paper so you can tell what is current.]
- Check through the notebooks to be sure that only science is in the science notebook, etc.
- Check that the homework is put in the front of the notebook for that class, so it won't be lost before it's turned in.
- No papers should be stuffed, loose, into the “black hole”, a.k.a. the backpack.
- Look over the work being done, offer suggestions to improve it and to orally quiz on the material.
- Find out when progress reports and report cards are scheduled to go out and put those dates on your calendar. If one doesn't’t come home when expected, no matter the excuse given, contact the grade level counselor. If you have access to email, it is wonderful, because you don't have to play phone tag. If you do not have access to email, phone the counselor or teacher for assistance or clarification.
- Help your child learn how to break down a large project into small pieces easy to deal with.
- On a month-at-a-glance calendar, divide the project up into smaller parcels and write them on the calendar on chosen “mini” due dates along the way to prevent the night before due date panic.
- Copy those dates into the weekly portion of the calendar on the corresponding dates.
- Copy those same dates on the family calendar, so a parent can see what’s due that week and encourage the child to not get behind.
- Always make projects due to you two days before it's actually due to the teacher. That allows some time to solve last minute emergencies: printer ran out of ink, need poster board, etc.
- No 10 p.m. runs to WalMart! Tell you child that if materials must be bought for anything for school, they must notify you at least 24 hours in advance. . This teaches them to learn to plan ahead.
- If at any time, you are concerned that you may not be getting all the information you need from you child, please contact the teacher or grade level counselor by phone or email ASAP.
- A list of tutors is available through the Guidance Department.
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START 2nd 9 WEEKS (322 or close to it)
Read How to #10
Start U1C3A4
m 10/27 Day 1 Daily Questions
1. How can you avoid being marked
tardy to class?
2. What is the only way you can
come late to class and not be
recorded as tardy?
3. What heading is required on your
papers?
4. If your assignment is longer than
one page, what must you do
before turning it in?
5. Where do you put late papers?
u1c3a
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t 10/28 Day 2 Daily Questions .
1.Define: property, length,
standard unit
2. Should you taste any thing in lab?
3. Remember qualitative and
quantitative? What are they?
4. What are two ways to write the
equation for volume of a rectangle?
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Bill Nye: Buoyancy
w10/29 Day 3 DailyQuestions .
1. Write two sentences using the every day
definition of property and two using the
scientific definition.
2. What is the volume of a box that is 3m tall
4m wide and 7 m long?
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Buoyancy
Don't forget your
Name and Period
1. What is Bill trying to show by letting out his air while under water?
2. If a boat displaces 20KG of water, how much will the boat weigh?
3. In the clay boat experiment, did the ball or the boat displace more water?
4. What is it called when a boat pushes water out of the way?
5. If something displaces as much water as it weighs, will it float or sink?
6. Does most beach trash displace as much water as it weighs?
7. What is Tammy's job during the "what floats" test?
8. How are fish similar to the pen cap submarines?
9. Define neutral.
10.Can you have buoyancy any place other then in water?
11.How is the contents of this video summarized at the end?
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Start activity 5
Vobac Quiz V2-1
r 10/30 Day 4 Daily Questions .
1. How can you prove that gas has mass?
2. What was demonstrated when the
2Liter bottle was massed, filled
with compressed air and massed
again?
3. what was demonstrated when the
carbon dioxide was massed?
V2-1
multiple loop circuit deflection
knife switch D cell
single loop circuit vibrate
armature influence
electromagnet coil
V2-1
1. single loop circuit 1. circuit that has all it’s parts connected
in a single loop
2. multiple loop circuit 2.a circuit in which two pr more single
loops connect to the same cells
3. electromagnet 3. coil of wire connected to a source of
electricity the coil is usually wrapped
around a magnetic material
4. coil 4. several loops combined together
5. deflection 5. we measured the degrees of
movement of a compass needle and
called it this.
6. knife switch 6. metal bar used to open and close a
electric circuit
7. D cell 7. a standard size battery
8. vibrate 8. rapid movement back and forth
9. armature 9. the moving part of a motor or buzzer
10. Influence 10. bring about change, persuade
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VP Lighting
f 10/31 Day 5 Daily Questions .
NOVA - LIGHTNING
Don't Forget your
Name and Period
1. How many people are killed by lighting each year?
2. What storm season is best to study lightning?
3. How many people get struck by lighting each year?
4. Why were church belles rung during storms?
5. What did Franklin's experiment prove?
6. What is the charge of clouds?
7. How long was the New York black out?
8. Where is the lighting capital of North America?
9. What do they use to get the lighting to strike the model town?
10. Where are the positive charges found that cause lighting?
11. What city does the lighting photographer live?
12. How close is too close when taking pictures of lighting?
13. How do they think the third type of carbon is formed?
14. What do they find, from the balloon data, about the anvil?
15. Where is the worst place to be during a lighting storm?
16. How many people were hit by lighting at the lacrosse game?
17. What should do when you are in a lighting storm?
18. What is the leading source of in door lighting death?
19. What is a folgerite?
20. Is lighting predictable?
21. How many times a year is a plane struck by lighting?
22. Why do they use a rubber tube to set of the rocket?
23. Does lighting have just one strike when it hits ?
24. Are underground power cables safe from lighting?
25. What is the ultimate sound and light show?
1 .grade VP buoyancy
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m11/3 Day6 Daily Questions .
1. How is mass different from volume?
2. Do equal volumes of different materials have the same mass or different mass?
3. what is the formula for density?
4. How do you measure mass?
5. is volume (size) always related to mass (weight)? Explain
6. what is the density of an object that is 15.5cm3 and has a mass of 12g?
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Density Demos
Finish U1C3A5 in class or homework
t11/4 Day7 Daily Questions .
1. Why is Carlos wrong? Book p 93.
2. How can you tell if something will
float or sink before you place it in
water?
4. If you have two materials with different mass but the same volume what statement can you make about their density?
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1. All of U1C3A6= Practice due Thurs
2. U1C3A5P due
w11/5 Day 8 Daily Questions .
1. Can you determine what metal something is made of if you know its magnetic or electrical conducting interactions?
2. how is the brightness of the bulb effected by
nichrome wire Vs copper wire?
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U1C3A6= Practice due
2. New vocab V2-2
r11/6 Day 9Daily Questions .
2. What is nichrome wire?
3. What type of circuit is used in activity 6?
4. Will it float or will it sink in water:
object that is 2cm by 2cm by
2cm having a mass of 8.5g
5. What material has a density of 5.8 cm3/g?
V2-2
volume cube
rectangle property
length standard unit
graphite sense
graduated cylinder solid
V2-2
1. volume 1. the amount of space an object occupies
2. cube 2. three dimensional square
3. rectangle 3. a shape with opposite sides of equal length and 90
angles
4. property 4. description of how object interacts other objects
5. length 5. measure of distance (how long
something is)
6. standard unit 6. a measurement with an agreed size
(like the meter)
7. graphite 7. soft carbon (latten, to write)
8. sense 8. way of gathering information using:
smell, touch, taste, sight, hearing
9. graduated cylinder 9. tube shaped measuring device with
division markings
10. solid 10. definite shape and mass
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1 . Grade VP lighting
2. review for U1C3 Quiz on Monday
f11/7 Day 10Daily Questions .
1. What metal, listed in the book, is the best conductor of electricity?
2. Does the length of a wire change the flow of electrons?
3. If you were going to use a very long extension cord for some lights, would you want aluminum or copper wire to make your lights as bright as possible?
4. Will it float or will it sink in alcohol:
you have 24ml of liquid and it has a mass of 23.9g
5. Why does salt water sink in fresh water?
6. Why does the decision making
cube not sink to the bottom?
7. draw a sketch of the water
currents around a piece of ice
floating in fresh water.
1. review for quiz
m/11/10 Day 11 Daily Questions .
1. Will antifreeze float or sink in
water? Your evidence?
2. list the properties we have tested
for so far this year.
3. Will it float or will it sink in water:
you have 40ml of liquid and it
has a mass of 28g
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U1C2Quiz
t11/11 Day 12 Daily Questions
1. how is the brightness of the bulb effected by nichrome wire Vs copper wire?
2. If you have two drink boxes, one 4cm by 10cm by 8cm and another that is 9cm by 9cm by 4cm, which one holds more?
3. Will it float or will it sink in
saturated salt solution:
you have 24cm3 of liquid and it
has a mass of 24.1g
4. What is the volume of a 10g piece of silver?
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Start U1C3 A1
w11/12 Day 13 Daily Questions .
1. get out a sheet of paper and put a heading on it for the V2-2quiz.
2. What is an energy transfer?
V2-2
volume cube
rectangle property
length standard unit
graphite sense
graduated cylinder solid
V2-2
1. volume 1. the amount of space an object occupies
2. cube 2. three dimensional square
3. rectangle 3. a shape with opposite sides of equal length and 900 angles
4. property 4. description of how object interacts other objects
5. length 5. measure of distance (how long
something is)
6. standard unit 6. a measurement with an agreed size
(like the meter)
7. graphite 7. soft carbon (latten, to write)
8. sense 8. way of gathering information using:
smell, touch, taste, sight, hearing
9. graduated cylinder 9. tube shaped measuring device with
division markings
10. solid 10. definite shape and mass
NBT # 4
r11/13 Day 15 Daily Questions .
START TEST # 5 material
1. What type of interaction takes place when you turn on a light bulb?
3. Give three examples of waves.
4. define: amplitude, transverse wave
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Start A 2
f11/14 Day 15 Daily Questions .
1. Define: frequency, wave, compression wave, wave length.
2. Draw an energy diagram of
throwing paper in the trash.
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finish 2 start UU2C1A3
m11/17 Day 16 Daily Questions .
1. define: energy source, energy
receiver, phenomena.
2. What is the relationship between
frequency and wavelength?
3. What are three properties of
mechanical waves?
4. Draw an energy diagram of
throwing paper in the trash.
Interaction type ________________________
Energy source energy receiver
Evidence __________________
5. give an example of energy transfer by water waves. Soccer ball in pool waves rock boat
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t/11/18 Day 17 Daily Questions .
1. Define: frequency, wave, compression wave, wave length.
2. Give an example of a light interaction.
4. How would describe an electric circuit consisting of just a cell, bulb and connecting wires. Describe this interaction in terms of energy.
V3-1
transverse wave slinky
disturbance phenomena
energy source amplitude,
wave length frequency
energy receiver, influence
V3-1
1. transverse wave, 1. material movement perpendicular to wave
2. amplitude, 2. wave heights
3. influence 3. something that makes something happen
4. frequency, 4. speed waves pass a given point
5. slinky, 5. spring like device used to show energy
interaction
6. wave length 6. distance between similar places on a wave
7. disturbance, 7. to interfere or interact
8. energy receiver, 8. object to which energy is transferred
9. phenomena, 9. something out of the ordinary, unexpected
10. energy source, 10. Object that is the supplier of energy
11. wave 11. a continuous succession of pulses
12. compression wave 12. a wave in which the motion is parallel to
the direction of the wave
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Waves vi