September+29th+-+October+3rd

=Friday, October 3rd, 2008=

===Fridays are "Tech" days, where students use their websites to do research or update their sites with the week's assignments. Today's assignment was to create a new page linked to their Science page (Weather page for middle school students, Zoology Project for high school students). After creating the page they were to follow a step-by-step checklist in order to complete their assignment.=== [|Middle School checklist] [|High School checklist]

Students who did not complete the assignment in the allotted time were asked to put the checklist into their "bigmouths" (take-home binders) for homework.
=Thursday, October 2st, 2008=

1) Sit down quietly and take out their Pride and Progress cards
===2) Start work on the science activity that has been placed at their seat or is on the board. These activities are usually short logic problems, science trivia, or visual puzzles. Today's activity was a visual logic problem.===

__Main Activity__
===**Middle School students**: Students were given a [|Weather Videos Worksheet] to fill out as we watched clips of various types of weather. Class discussions followed the clips and students were given time to fill out the sheet. ===

===**High School students:** Students began the [|brainstorm packet] for their Zoology Projects by filling out a packet that asked for their interests, what they already know about the topic, what they would like to know, and how they could demonstrate their knowledge. ===

=Tuesday, September 30th, 2008=

====**Middle School:** Students went outside to start brainstorming about weather and complete the [|Minnesota Weather intro activity]==== ====**High School:** Since we will be studying habitats and ultimately creating our own, students began the week by studying the habitats currently in the room. They were asked to identify various requirements of a habitat by drawing and labeling the classroom aquariums.====