I WANT TO WELCOME TO EVERY 7th GRADE SCIENCE STUDENT THIS COURSE TO MY CLASS AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY AND LEARN A LOT ABOUT WHAT WE PERFORMANCE AND ACHIEVE INTO THE CLASSROOM.
HAVE FUN
AND ENJOY THE SCIENCE!!
Se muestran los artículos pertenecientes a Agosto de 2017.
7th GRADE SCIENCE , Article 1 : Welcome 7th Grade Science Students !! 2017-2018.
Publicado: 11/08/2017 16:28 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 2 : Classroom rules.
Publicado: 12/08/2017 18:00 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
7th GRADE SCIENCE’S RULES :
- In order to develop a proper environment for a good learning process in class and for the students to get most profit of contents the following statements must be followed by every student :
1. Show respect to yourself and others. Follow your teacher directions.
2. Raise your hand before speaking or leaving your seat.
3. Arrive on time, prepared and ready to learn.
4. Say please and thank you.
5. Don’t either eat or gum in class. Drink when allowed.
6. Make Friends and be thoughtful.
7. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
- MATERIALS YOU NEED TO BRING TO CLASS FOR THE LESSONS :
> Notebook, pencil, eraser, scissors, glue.
> Your phone and headphones.
> Wish to learn.
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 3 : Lesson 1 FORCES AND INTERACTIONS.
Publicado: 12/08/2017 18:34 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
LESSON 1
FORCES AND INTERACTIONS.
- Pre-task (5 points) :
Level test to assign current course students level.
- First of all, we should check what science is and what is used for, because we are studying forces and forces are just a part of the big branch of Physics (science).
* Activiti 1.0 (5 points) : WHAT SCIENCE IS. ( 8/17/17 Thursday )
1.0.a Sit in groups of four and write in a sheet the answers you think are appropiate for the following questions : (discussion in groups).
- Copy the following questions in your notebook :
What science is? , what is it for? , How many parts does it have? , Which ones are we going to study? , do we use it in our daily life?...
1.0.b Watch this video and after check again the answers you gave to the previous questions and change the answers if needed.
* Activiti 1.1 (10 points) : Force’s effects. ( 8/22/17 Tuesday )
1. In order to learn what a Force is and the effects Forces can produce we develope the ACTIVITY 1.1.
1.1.a In this activity you are going to follow your teacher instructions in order to manipulate the following materials : Two pieces of paper, a pen, marble, your own hands.
In pairs, with those objects, ask your partner what you must do to get the following effects :
- Folding.
- Deformation, loss of shape.
- Breaking.
- Heating.
- Change of velocity, turn, spin, motion.
1.1.b Draw a chart at your notebook in which you write the effects a force can do.
Besides the effect write a little description of an example of you have done in order to get that effect.
Draw a chart like this : CHART.
1.1.c We should try now to explain what a force is, what it is not an easy task.
Talk in a voice level 2 with your classmate about how to explain what a force is. Try to explain to each other without using the Word FORCE.
1.1.d Once you have talked for a while, and when your teacher tells you, watch the following video and after watching it, talk with your partner again trying to explain now with other words what you thing a force is.
After watching the video and talking with your classmate, write a proper definition at your notebook about what you think a force is. You can use an example (situation) in order to explain it.
1.1.e > Once you have written your own definition about what a force is, copy the following description of a force :
A Force is :
a) A force is a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object’s interaction with another object.
b) Whenever there is an interaction between two objects, there is a force upon each of the objects.
c) When the interaction ceases, the two objects no longer experience the force. Forces only exist as a result of an interaction.
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 4 : Lesson 1 Forces. Support, stabilize and stiffen structures.
Publicado: 13/08/2017 17:19 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
* Activity 1.2 ( 20 points ): Supporting structures. ( 8/23/17 Wednesday )
- ACTIVITY 1.2 : Forces are very important in every facets of our life. But today we’re going to analyze what they have to do with the structures that surround us.
1.2.0 Review concepts from activity 1.1
At the following crossword look for five word-concepts we learnt at the last activity 1.1
( Force’s effects )
1.2.a To understand what we’re going to do today we watch a very nice video first :
- Supporting structures. ( 8/24/17 Thursday )
1.2.b Build that triangle structure in order to support a pile of books.
Use the materials given by your teacher to build it.
1.2.c After building the structure you have made and checked, talk in pairs about the reason why it is necessary to have a bunch of these triangle strucutures in order to support an object. What is happening with the forces around these triangles?.
Write your answer at your notebook and show it and give it to your teacher.
- Make a report of what you have done in class about building your stiffen structure.
1.2.d What does it happen when forces are not nicely worked out?...check it!!
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 5 : Total solar eclipse on 21th August 2017.
Publicado: 17/08/2017 23:28 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
TOTAL SOLAR ACLIPSE ON AUGUST 21th. ( 8/18/17 Friday )
1- Are you ready for the total solar eclipse on 21th August next week?. Check on the following video what a total solar eclipse is and how you may watch it without damage your ayes and why it is going to be well visible in Kentucky.
2- Read the information given by your teacher about the total solar eclipse and answer the questions at the paper’s bottom.
3- Will you go out to see the eclipse next Monday?, you will enjoy if you do.
VIDEO HOW TO DO A PINHOLE CAMERA.
Try now to explain with your own words what a total solar eclipse consists of. Write you explanation at the paper’s back from the activity 2.
4- Explain the way you are going to see the eclipse for you know you cannot see it looking directly at the sun unless you want to damage seriously your eyes. Which method are you going to use to see the eclipse? glasses? pinhole?.
HOMEWORK FOR WEEKEND 8/19/17 - 8/21/17
- As a homework about the solar eclipse to can do these two works :
1) Look for the meaning of the following vocabulary (PDF file attached) on internet :
2a) Search in internet how many total solar eclipse there have been since the year 1900 to on 21 August 2017.
2b) How many of them have been able to be seen in USA (Kentucky)?.
- At the following link you can find how many solar eclipses ( counting partial and total solar eclipses in total, about 92 since 1900 ) there have been since 1900 to 2017 :
Number of solar eclipses since 1900
- Addicional interesting and nice information about the solar eclipse :
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 6 : Sort of forces.
Publicado: 21/08/2017 03:43 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
WHAT KIND OF FORCES IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE?
CAN WE CONNECT EACH KIND WITH A CERTAIN HUMAN ACTIVITY?.
* Activity 1.3 (5 points) : Sort of forces. ( 8/25/17 Friday )
1.3.a Review crossword exercise. (stiffing structures ).
Students must finish their report from the class of yesterday (stiffing structures ).
Show video about Tacoma bridge collapse.
1.3.b Paying attention to the activities societies achieve for living, we can deduce the different kind of forces we can have. ( Electrical force, magnetic force, tension force, friction force, nuclear force, contact forces, non contact forces or action at a distance forces, gravitational forces, centripetal force, centrifugal force, etc ) , but in physics we have the following classification.
Observe the drawings at the sheet you are given and try to match each one with the appropiate kind of force using arrows :
( 8/28/17 Monday )
Activity 1.3.b.2 - Review of the kind of forces we studied on last Friday : CROSSWORD 1. ( 5 points ).
- We must now organize and distribute the forces we know in two main groups :
1.3.c Make a table and classify the kind of forces you know in two groups, "contact forces" and " action at a distance forces or non contact forces" :
( electrical force, applied force, normal force, frictional force, magnetic force, nuclear force, spring force, gravitational force, air resistance force, tension force ).
TABLE ( 5 points ).
1.3.d Make groups of four people and with the objects given, try to creat some of the different kind of forces you have learnt.
( string , marble, elastic band, battery, paper, rug, plastic tube, nail, wire, tape, balloon, paperclip, magnets, ... some other objects you can have around you...). (10 points ).
1.3.d 8th Period, poster about kind of forces, pictures and drawings. (10 points).
In groups of 4 students, organise and create a poster to be hanged on the
wall outside science classroom about the main kind of forces we have
studied in class. ( 15 points ).
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 7 : Making an electromagnet.
Publicado: 21/08/2017 06:20 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
MAKING AN ELECTROMAGNET.
* Activity 1.4 ( 35 points ) : Electromagnet. ( 8/29/17 Tuesday )
1.4.a Crossword review activity :
CROSSWORD ( Contact and non-contact forces ) ( 5 points ).
Let’s see the video to make an easy electromagnet. VIDEO. ( 2:09 - 3:09 min ).
1.4.b NOW , DO IT !!! (Materials are given to you, groups of 3 people). ( 20 points ).
( You need a battery, wire, tape, clips and a nail ).
1.4.c Make a report about the steps followed to make the electromagnet and give it to your teacher. Use the template your teacher gives you in order to full all the important sections
REPORT TEMPLATE ( 10 points ).
( In case that you have more time for working at this class, it would be nice if you could draw an electromagnet outline showing the main parts of it ).
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 8 : Explaining how an electromagnet works.
Publicado: 28/08/2017 01:37 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
EXPLAINING HOW THE ELECTROMAGNET WORKS.
When using an electromagnet we have two kind of forces involved, electric forces and magnetic forces. The running electrical current throughout the cable and wrapped around the nail creates a magnetic field that generates magnetic forces. This forces atract finally the metallic clips.
* Activity 1.5 ( 15 points ) : Explaining an electromagnet. ( 8/30/17 Wednesday )
1.5.a Review crossword exercise ( electromagnet’s parts ). ( 5 points ).
1.5.b The following activity allows you to understand how an electromagnet works.
Try ordering the paragraphs so that the electromagnet’s mechanism can be understood.
ORDERING PARAGRAPHS ( 10 points ).
1.5.c At the back of the paper given in the last activity, place the electromagnet’s parts at the appropriate location.
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 9 : Showing an electromagnet.
Publicado: 29/08/2017 17:33 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
SHOWING , DISPLAYING AN ELECTROMAGNET.
- Our task for today is to make a presentation or a poster in order to show others what we have learned about electromagnets and magnetic forces.
* Activity 1.6 ( 23 points ) : Showing an electromagnet. ( 8/31/17 Thursday )
1.6.a Review crossword electromagnet working. ( 5 points ).
1.6.b At the following activity you work in groups of 4 or 5 people in order to create a poster on a construction paper showing the different parts an electromagnet has and what they are used for.
Use the drawings given to form this work. ( 10 points ).
7th GRADE SCIENCE : Article 10 : Electromagnet test and finishing posters. Extra work.
Publicado: 31/08/2017 17:44 por easyfisquim en 7th GRADE SCIENCE.
ELECTROMAGNET TEST.
* Activity 1.7 : Electromagnet. ( 9/1/17 Friday )
1.7.a TEST ( 8 points ) about electrical and magnetic forces and about electromagnets.
1.7.b Crossword review activity :
CROSSWORD ( Showing an electromagnet ). ( 5 points ).
1.7.c SHOWING AN ELECTROMAGNET POSTER , FINISH IT !!!
(Materials are given to you, groups of 4 people). ( 10 points ).
