Week of Nov 4th

Welcome back

This is what we will be covering this week in Science and Social Studies

Note: I will be out Tue and Wed this week for Professional Development and your student will have a substitute teacher for those days

Science:
First: "Hurricane Chasers" and Weather Underground -logging severe weather data and mean, median, mode
Then: Science Worksheet packets for Tue-Wed with substitute teacher
Next: Working to update Science Notebooks
Lastly: Textbook Lesson 9 Oceans and Climate

Social Studies:
Human Migration Lessons
Play "hunter/gatherer" game in small groups

Week of Oct 28th

Welcome Back

It's conference week this week and all days are minimum day schedule with a release time of 11:40

If you don't have a conference time, please email your students 3rd period teacher in order to schedule one

Have a great week!

Mr Franey

Week of October 21st

Hello again - Here's what we will be doing in Science and History this week...

Reminder- Parent/Teacher Student led Conferences begin next week (Oct. 28th)  I will see some of you then!

History: We are Still studying Late Paleolithic People and the students are really into it!
              The lessons for this week are Paleolithic Cave Art, Fire, and Mastodon Extinction Theory

Science: We deep into our Weather and Climate Unit and we get to do a couple experiments
               Experiments= Heating and Cooling rates of Sand vs. Water
                                       Sand Science "Magic Sand"

                Lessons= Earth's Surface, Heating Earth's Surfaces, and Ocean Temperatures 

Thanks for Reading and if you ever need to know more, remember you can always email me

Mr Franey (mfraney@ttusd.org)

Week of Oct 14

Welcome back to another work week at ACMS

This week will do the Following:

Science: Heating and Cooling of Earth's surface- A 2 day hands on experiment
               How do water and land affect climate/weather?
               Ocean Temperatures
               Investigating Water
               Oceans and Climate

History:  Finish up Paleolithic Tools Lessons
                Extension: Otz the Ice Man virtual field trip 1
                                 Cave Paintings of South France with virtual field trip 2
                Art Project: Cave Drawings using oil pastels and brown paper

Thanks for Reading,
Mr Franey

Week of Oct 8

Welcome back to another exciting week! Once again read below to find out what we are doing this week.

Science:  We are starting off Tues. with a make and take lesson called "spherical science" and relating it to raindrops at the end.  We are still in the middle of a "climate and weather" unit and next up is Extreme Weather Events using Climate Data from Weather Underground.

History:  We are still studying PreHistory.  We will compare/contrast Early-Late Paleolithic People.  After that we will explore Paleolithic Tools and Fire

Thanks for reading,
Mr Franey

Week of September 30th

Science:  This week starts with Meteorology.  We will be Investigating Local Weather History (Daily Weekly and Monthly).
 We will be using a website called "Weather Underground" to assist us in filling out lots of Weather Data Charts and then we will be Analyzing the Data for our different needs.

History:  Prehistory Continued
We will be Exploring our connection to Hunter-Gatherer Societies.  We will also explore Paleolithic People and their tools, tasks, and fire.

Thanks,
Mr Franey

Week of September 23rd

Science:  We are starting a new unit:  Climate Change
                This unit is part of our Pilot using the Company  (Lab-Aids)
                Lab Aids is connected to The Lawrence Hall of Science and University of California        Berkeley

History:  We are doing hands on activities with a focus on Artifacts.  When we are finished, we will begin studying PreHistory -  The first Humans

Thanks for Reading,
Mr Franey