Welcome Back Dynamic Team!
Upcoming Events: Grades will be mailed home January 11th
MLK Holiday – January 21st
Hixson Adult Trivia Night – January 26th
Important Information: If students have not yet cleaned out their binders and restocked their school supplies, they should still do that. Some students may need a few new spirals and to check the workability of their binders. We have had several students asking for pencils and erasers this week, so they should restock those, as well.
The Hixson Adult Trivia night is coming up. Attached you will find a registration form: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/file/d/0B47t0_AnyTUhd2Y4S3I5cF9jUkU/edit.
English –
Math –
Mrs. Slaughter was out this week, but students have continued their work with Shrinking and Stretching.
Science –
In Dynamic Science today we are working on Goal #1: I am able to describe the movement of energy through the biosphere. The students wrote a hypothesis about which of the following would be the hottest or coldest:
After they collected their temperature measurements they entered the data on a GoogleCloud document. You might ask your student to show it to you.
Welcome back to the second half of 7th grade Dynamic Systems Science! We have stormed into resuming our weather unit this week! We have been discovering the kinetic temperature concept and air density/pressure! The students are doing data collection and graphing temperature and barometric pressure over time on the same graph (a new graph type) to analyze the relationship.
Standards based grading (please see bulleted list below) has been very beneficial for student learning and achievement! I have been delighted about the students’ increased focus on learning! Please review with your student about their learning experiences in Science and about their achievements with developing their skills creating data tables and graphs, identifying independent variables, dependent variables, and constants, and writing hypotheses and conclusions.
1. Can perform skill only with help. (D)
2. Can perform some or most the skill independently. (C)
3. Can perform all important aspects of the skill independently. (B)
4. Can transfer the skill to a new situation or set of circumstances never seen before, or make a prediction about something which has not been tested. (A)
Weather Unit Outline:
In Dynamic Science today we are working on Goal #1: I am able to describe the movement of energy through the biosphere. The students wrote a hypothesis about which of the following would be the hottest or coldest:
- Shallow pond water
- Deep pond water
- Sunny asphalt
- Shady asphalt
- Sunny concrete
- Shady concrete
- Sunny grass
- Shady grass
After they collected their temperature measurements they entered the data on a GoogleCloud document. You might ask your student to show it to you.
The links for the course websites are listed below:
4th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330004
5th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330001
6th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330002
7th Period - http://www.edline.net/pages/Hixson/Classes/M330003
If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Systems Science – Coach Daniels
314-918-4603
Social Studies –
On this first week of the new semester we have continued with Ancient Greece. We have explored the secrets of the Parthenon, and looked at the three dominant eras in Greek art. Next week we will focus on Athens and Sparta and towards the end of the week we will begin our Greek Myth Books.
I am available for after school help every Thursday until 4:00 p.m.
The links for the course websites are listed below.
Course Websites:
314-918-4602
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