This week's schedule was a little weird so we made the best of it. There was no school Monday for President's Day, and then Tuesday we did the same thing that Thursday's classes did. On Wednesday, only juniors were at school for the ACT test, but it still counted as a "B" day so "A" day students got some work time when they came back to class on Thursday, which was fine because there was a lot of missing work out there. On Friday, we watched a water pollution TED talk and took post test 13 and pretest 14.
This week, we read a couple of Newsela articles about Canadian tar sands and what the extraction of these tar sands is doing to the local environment and economy. We also watched a handful of Youtube clips about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the standoff that happened at the Standing Rock reservation. We continued our water pollution powerpoint, and also went over our Power Standard 13 pretests and answers. We also did a lab on drinking water analysis and did a "silent discussion" activity about the pipelines.
This week we started the week with an awesome activity. We read a case study on Suminoe Oysters and Chesapeake Bay. The lesson started with the first 6 minutes of a short documentary about the dire situation the Bay was facing. We then read and discussed the case study, and followed the reading up with a think pair share activity that lead to a great discussion. We had a snow day on Wednesday, but ended the week reading about the Coelacanth, a thought to be extinct fish we discovered 80 years ago. We started a powerpoint about water pollution and did a lab on analyzing watersheds.
This week, we took post test 12 and pretest 13. We also tried to do an Oceanography webquest assignment but the internet went down for half of the day so it kind of threw a wrench in our plans. As it was, 1B and 4B were able to complete the assignment as scheduled, while the internet was down for 2B and 3B. In response, those periods had to get caught up later in the week which meant some work time was given in the other classes to get caught up on missing work.
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AuthorMr. Saurer is a science teacher and basketball coach currently teaching at Granger High School. Archives
February 2019
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