Zixth Grade

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Important Announcements:

• Abstinence Training parents meeting 8 AM, Wednesday, October 8. A representative from Arizona Youth Partnership will speak with parents about their program and answer any questions. Students will participate in the program October 20-24.
• We’re bumping the Chapter 6 test! We will continue with the test the week of October 27. With all the work we did with sling psychrometers last week, we didn’t have time to read through all of the weather chapters.
• Sorry for the downtime. Edublogs.org upgraded their service, and we lost access this weekend. Everything should be up and running even faster than before.

And now…

This week, we answer the question How can you track severe storms? We’ll put together our understanding of high and low pressure, warm and cold fronts, and data analysis to find out how meteorologists and scientists track and predict severe storm movement.

Objectives:

• Understand how to track the path of a hurricane.
  
• Understand how weather is forecast.
  
• Describe different types of severe storms.

Vocabulary:

• thunderstorm
• tornado
• hurricane
• blizzard

Assignments:

• Hurricane Tracking map and conclusions
• Worksheet RS 52-53

We’re all about weather this week as we catch up on some book work. We will dig into the question What is weather?

Objectives:

• Investigate the effects of air pressure.
• Understand air masses and how they cause weather.
• Identify global wind patterns and other factors that affect climate.
• Cause and Effect: Look for causes of weather changes.

Vocabulary:

• air pressure
• relative humidity
• front
• climate
• warm front
• cold front
• nimbostratus clouds

Assignments:

• Relative Humidity investigation Summary
• RS 50-51 Worksheet
• Fan face self portraits for the Fall Hullabaloo.

We’re half way through September and we’re ready to kick off a new unit: Earth’s Weather Patterns. This week we’ll work to answer this question: What makes up the atmosphere? If you come across any useful links, post them in the comment section to share with our classmates.

Objectives

• Map the composition of the atmosphere.
• Identify the layers of the atmosphere.
• Recognize how the sun affects the atmosphere.
• Main Idea and Details: Look for the details that describe the atmosphere.
• Technology: Create a plain text file and save it in a new folder on a networked drive.

Key Vocabulary

• atmosphere
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere

Assignments

• Investigate: Layers of the Atmosphere lab report and graph on page 245
• Atmospheric layers diagram
• Reading Support 48-49
• Plain text files saved on district server

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Math:
Unit 7 Test corrections
Design a fair game

Writing:
Revise and Proofread a How-to Essay

Reading:
PB 140
PB 143
PB 148

Science:
RS 9-10