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Weds. 8/26

1.  Seating charts and how to straighten your desk.

2.  Introduce myself and the class.

"We will dissect after Christmas!!!"

3.  Hand out opening day letter and go over.

*Circle web site and email address.

*You must do homework or you'll sit in the back.

4.  Discuss when to visit lockers.

5.  Do class rules on PowerPoint.

6.  Useless facts.

Thurs. 8/27

1.  Class stuff:

A.  Useless facts

B.  Homework and class competition

C.  Free time

D.  Doodle board

E.  Web poll

F.  Books in back

2.  Hand out and go over safety letter.

A.  First lab is next week.  Have it by then or don't do lab.

B.  Print out on web site too.

3.  Do "Laws of the Lab".

Fri. 8/28

1.  Collect safety letters.

2.  Ask:

A.  What is an observation?  Examples?

B.  What is an inference?  Examples?

C.  What is an experiment?  Examples?

3.  Show red liquid.

A.  Observations?

B.  Inferences?

C.  Experiments to find out what it is?

4.  Show green object.

A.  Observations?

B.  Inferences about what it is?

5.  Quickly make observations and inferences about someone in class.

6.  Show bead bucket.

*As the observations increase, the inferences get better. (That's

why we study cancer so much.)*

Mon. 8/31

1.  Safety letters?

2.  What did the bucket of beads teach us?

(As the observations increased, the inferences got better.)

3.  Quickly review observation, inference and experiment.

4.  Pass out Science Mystery Boxes and let students work on them.

5.  Draw predictions on board.

A.  Why different?

B.  Compare data and make class inference.

C.  Stress that, as observations increase, the chance that the

inferences are correct increase too.

D.  Any tool that might help?

6.  Homework! (20 observations about your room in complete

sentences.)