Astronomy 1 Test - Friday, May 3rd

All-Star students will take the Astronomy 1 Test this Friday, May 3rd.   

Students should study all of the Astronomy material in their binder since the start of the unit.  This includes notes, do nows, homework assignments, labs, lab pages, and handouts. If you have been absent from school it is your responsibility to make up the work you have missed.  It will be included on the test.

Study Guide:

Rotation/Revolution
Distances/Our Galaxy
Seasons
Equinox/Solstice
Moon Phases
Eclipses
Tides

Extra help is available during your lunch period this Monday - Thursday. Additional resources that may be useful can be found by clicking on “Unit 9: Astronomy" in the margin on the right.

Community Service Project

Our class will be incubating eggs this spring in support of the Re-Introduction of Northern Bobwhite Quail project.  Here are some photos of our incubator set up as we begin this adventure together. 

The fertilized eggs arrived on Friday, April 19th.

The temperature settings in our incubator was "just right".

 

 

Additional information will be posted as the hatching process takes place, as well as the brooding of the baby birds here in our building, and then at Caleb Smith State Park before they are released into our local environment.

Welcome to the Astronomy Unit!

Today our class began our last unit of the year, Astronomy.  Enjoy this music video set to the song from the "Black Eyed Peas" to help you review the first few concepts in our curriculum!

Cumulative Chemistry Test - THIS FRIDAY, April 12th

All-Star students will take the Cumulative Chemistry 2 Test this Friday, April12th.   

Students should study all of the Chemistry material in their binder since the start of the unit on February 15^th.  This includes notes, do nows, homework assignments, labs, lab pages, and handouts. If you have been absent from school it is your responsibility to make up the work you have missed.  It will be included on the test.

Study Guide:
-States of Matter (3 types and properties of each)
-Law of Conservation of Matter
- Density (Calculating, Estimating Density using % under water, does changing the size of an item change its density?)
-Physical and Chemical Changes
-Periodic Table (using the laminated Periodic Tables in our classroom to find an element based upon its Period, Group, and Family name)
-Metals/Non-Metals
-Electron Shell Diagrams (Drawing them accurately, determining if an element is stable or not)
-Counting/Identifying  atoms and elements in compounds
-Types of Chemical Reactions
-Factors that change the Rate of a Reaction
-Interpreting Solubility
-Chemistry Vocabulary (copied into your binder during this unit, plus the terms on page 40 in your lab manual)

Extra help is available during your lunch period this Monday - Thursday. Additional resources that may be useful can be found by clicking on “Unit 8: Chemistry" in the margin on the right.