Welcome back! Hope you all had an incredible February break whether you traveled or kept it low key and local. You all did an excellent job presenting down in the library before break - it was great to see so many different topics from the whole year. Today, you will be checking out the feedback that students and teachers left you and will be filling out a feedback form to grade yourself based on the comments you received by others.
Before break, we also collected precipitation data - looking at how the air pressure, temperature, and humidity change as the amount of precipitation changes. This week, we will use this data to understand why specific types of weather happen and help us to create rules that can predict the weather. Stay curious and keep looking for answers! - Mr. Bowles Business: After school help is available Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday this week. Welcome back from the last weekend before February break! We've got three main things going on this week - finishing up the Weather & Climate Independent Study, creating some rules to help us predict the weather, & Google Site preparations and presentations.
The last in-class day for Independent Study work is today. You'll finish collecting & analyzing data/examples that show how your independent variable has an effect on your dependent variable. For example, the amount of air pressure has an effect on the wind speed of a tornado. Graded check-ins for this last independent study assignment can happen today, Tuesday, & Wednesday this week. Tomorrow & Wednesday, we'll using data from the location of your Precipitation Screencast (Assignment #2 on the playlist) to create some rules to help us predict the weather anywhere around the world. On Friday, you will be presenting down in the library. You are welcome to present anything you've posted on your Google Site this year. You may present your whole Google Site or just parts of it, but you must present at least TWO THINGS you've posted for science. It's extremely important that you understand and can explain the scientific ideas you are presenting on, so that when you are asked questions you feel confident answering them. We will be doing preparations & practice for presentations on Thursday. You are welcome to present with one other person if you did a project with them. Have a great week and please let me know if you have questions along the way. Stay curious and keep looking for answers! -Mr Bowles Last week, we began venturing into the question, Can we predict the weather? Our steps towards answering this question, brought us to analyze a specific area of the world that had precipitation and collect some data about that location. This week, we'll take step back to learn first hand how clouds are made & reflect on why precipitation formed during at a specific spot in the world during your screencast. We will also continue our Independent Studies on Friday in order to finish answering all three formatted questions and begin collecting data on your independent & dependent variables. Don't forget that last Friday's assignment needs to be completed before the end of the week. Make sure to get the graded check-in for your the Independent Study page of your Google Site before Friday. Stay curious & keep looking for answers! -Mr. Bowles Business: - After school help is available Tuesday & Thursday this week. Before school help is available upon prior request. |
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