Keeping Up to Date

Assignments due upon return in January.

• Achieve 3000 (A3K) – two articles: Floating Free and Space Café
• Fusion Science book Lesson 3-2 including lesson review.
• Fusion Science book Lesson 3-1.
• Foldable for Comparing and Contrasting the Geocentric and Heliocentric models of the Solar System.
• There are 2 Gizmos about Tides available for students who need to raise the menu grade for the 3^rd and 4^th columns. Each Gizmo is worth up to 25 points. They are due on the first day of class in January.

Holiday Assignment

 Holiday Packet: FCAT Explorer Vocabulary Activities. See DCPS website for log in information.

You may also work ahead in FCAT EXPLORER. Starting in January you will be assigned sections for home learning. The first assignment will be the Nature of Science. Yes, it will be graded and it is your first attempt that will be used to calculate your grade.

 

Directions for foldable

Fold a sheet of white paper in half (hamburger style).

Cut along the fold. Save the other piece of paper for the first class of January.

Fold a 2cm flap at the top of the paper. This will be your glue in flap.

Now fold the sheet of paper in half (hamburger style). Cut along the fold up to the bottom of the flap.

Open the foldable. The flap is on the back side.

Cut out the models from p. 112 of your Fusion book. Glue one on each front section of the foldable.

Cut out questions #17 and #19 from p. 112. Glue each question to the back of the foldable matching the model on the front.

Glue the flap onto your ISN page. You will want to glue the flap in the margin of the page.

Lift the foldable up and on the ISN page make either a Y diagram or a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two different models. Use the following criteria for your diagram. You may add more information to make it a stronger diagram.

Prior observations that laid the foundation for the theory or model.

Arrangement of the solar system.

Developer of the model.

Country where the developer lived.

Dates for the development of the theory (or when developer lived).

Other scientists who accepted the theory.

Countries where these scientists lived.

Scientists who opposed the theories.

Countries where they lived.