Quiz scores are in!

It was a lot of work, but I managed to grade all the quizzes today. Your grades are in teacherease with individual comments. It was a tough quiz, no one got 100%. The class averages were 81.4% for third period and 80.0% for fourth period. We will go over some common mistakes on the quiz tomorrow, so you can see where you went wrong. I'm handing back your quizzes tomorrow so that you can do corrections over spring break. I will accept corrections on the short answer questions only. If you want to submit corrections you need to re-write your answer on a separate sheet of paper, staple it to your quiz, and turn it back in to me on the first day back after spring break.

Be prepared to get some dirt on your hands in science tomorrow, either in the classroom or in the garden if it is not raining too hard!

Protein, Carbs, and Lipids Quiz Review

The weather does not look the best this week for planting in the garden. Our best chance of getting dry weather to plant is probably Friday, so we will have the quiz on Thursday. If we cant get outside on Friday we may at least be able to prepare some starts. The quiz is going to cover everything we learned about Protein, Carbohydrates, and Lipids over the last few weeks, focusing on the energy. Here is what you should review for the quiz.

• Examples of food that contain Protein, Carbs and Fats.
• Elements found in Protein, Carbs and Fats
• How to calculate calories in food based on grams of Protein, Carbs and Fat.
• Understanding how to read Nutritional Information labels on food.
• Understanding serving size vs. total amount of calories on packets.
• Total weight vs Net weight.
• Sugars vs Starches.
• Conversion to energy of Carbohydrates.
• Examples of different types of sugars and where they are found.

GREEN Congress Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be out of school all day with 8 lucky 6th graders at the Student Green Congress at Evergreen. I wish I could take all of you, but rules are rules. Ms Smith will be subbing in Science. I would like you all to make your column graphs of your results from the Carbohydrates Lab like I showed you in class today. And I would like you to begin answering the Carbohydrates Lab Questions which Ms Smith will hand out tomorrow. They are both due on Tuesday. Have a great day tomorrow without me! I will take photos.

Carbohydrate Lab Photos

What do you think caused the colors to form in these layers?

Which of these do you think had the most sugar?

Grinding up some fruit

The solutions in hot water

Someone is happy to be in the photo!

"You want to take a photo of me?"

Tomorrow's Lab

Here are some of the materials we will be using in tomorrow's lab. Can you guess what we will be testing? (Hint: what is the difference between the item on the left and the item on the right?

Homework for Monday

Hope you are having a great weekend 6th graders. Here is the assignment for Monday.

A graph of one of the tests (pH, DO, Turbidity etc.) that includes a title, axis labels, and is easy to read.

Also answer the following questions.

1. What was your hypothesis? Did you think there would be much of a difference between Site 1 and Site 2? Did you think there would be a difference between Fall and Winter. Mention all tests DO, Temperature, DO Saturation, B.O.D., pH, Nitrates, Turbidity.
2. Explain the graph that you created, what does it show? Does this match up with your hypothesis? Why do you think this happened ?
3. How do you think we could improve on our procedure? What problems did we have?

Moxlie Creek Fall and Winter Results

Awesome job at the Science Fair last night everyone, it was so much fun!

I would like to revisit the Water Monitoring Data we have collected, now that we have the data for the fall and winter. Below is the final results for each of the tests.
They are listed as:

 Test (units) - Fall Site 1, Fall Site 2, Winter Site 1, Winter Site 2.

DO (mg/L)- 15.25, 17.8, 9.9, 9.1
Water Temperature (Celsius) - 10, 11, 10, 10
DO Saturation (%)- 135, 155, 80, 83
B.O.D. difference (mg/L) - 2.75, 3.0, 8.27, 8.3
pH - 7.5, 7.25, 7, 7.25
Nitrates (mg/L) - 3.75, 0.25, 2.1, 1.2
Turbidity (JTUs) - 25, 55, 22, 47

Science Fair!

Students: Please arrive at 7pm on Wednesday and come up to Room 5. Bring your Science Fair Notebook and any other props related to your project. Be prepared to present your project to parent judges. Judging will be from 7-8pm, certificates will be awarded afterwards and should finish by 8.30pm.

Parents: Please drop your student off at 7pm. If you would would like to judge (optional), check in with me (Mr Kehoe) on the night and I will give you a clipboard and instructions. You can claim 1 hour towards your service hours for this. The whole event should finish by 8.30pm.

Science Fair Score Sheet

Some of you asked for a copy of the Score Sheet the Judges will use at the Science Fair next week. Here it is. Hope you are all making great progress!

Science Fair Conclusion

Hope you are all enjoying your long weekend. I just want to remind you all that your science fair project conclusion is due on Tuesday. This should be a brief summary of your findings. Make sure to include whether your results support you hypothesis, and include a brief discussion of why or why not. Evaluate your experimental procedure making comments about its success. Suggest possible changes you would make if you were to re-do the experiment. And discuss what you could do next, if you were to continue your experiment.

The final project is due on Friday, that is less than one week away now! Remember, you need to get your own poster board like the ones I showed you in class. The standard size is 36 by 48 inches, and they are available at most office supply stores like Office Depot and Staples.

See you all on Monday!