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Friday, August 19, 2011

Welcome Back - August 30-Sept 2

Date
Plan
What we did
Monday
Division Inservice
No School
August 29
Tuesday
1) Welcome back
2) Attendance
3) Course Outline
5) Texts and Duotangs
We reviewed the course outline, worked through expectations and class norms.  Introduced the Who am I? and goals sheets.
August 30
Wednesday
1) Who am I? and Goals sheet
2) Start Unit 1 pre-assessment
3) Textbooks and Duotangs

) Texts and Duotangs
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1) Who am I? and Goals sheet
2) Start Unit 1 pre-assessment
3) Textbooks and Duotangs
4) Graphed our class learning styles
5) Started Review of chemistry.
August 31
Thursday
1) Unit 1 Overview
2) Big Ideas and Key Questions in Biochemistry
4)   Cross word Review
1) Reviewed NESD Personal & Social Development Rubric.
2) Reviewed Big Ideas and Key Questions
3) Worked on Review of Chem (if finished started X-word)
4) Demo Challenge Question - Why did the water turn yellow?
Have upto #12 finished for tomorrow.
Sept 1
Friday
1) Challenge question - Do we have an answer?
2) 5-10 minutes to complete Review of Chem
When Done:
- Highlight or underline key vocab words
- Note any questions you have
- Work through review x-word puzzle (as a team)
3) Work through the Review of Chem review - clarify any concepts
4) Set quiz date.
1) Class came up with the answer for our challenge question.
2) Wrapped up notes on Review of Chemistry.
3) Cross Word Team challenge:
Phase 1 - 10 minutes - you have 15 tokens, your team's job is to answer as many as you can, if you can't figure out one answer you may pay 1 token to another team for that answer.
Phase 2 - consolidate your answers on to the official page and highlight any not answer yet.
- As a team decide what question you would like a hint on.
Phase 3 - Class Hints. Each table group can ask for a hint about one question - everyone gets to hear the answer.
 
Phase 4 - Total your tokens.
 
Phase 5 - Follow along as we answer the questions.  Your team pays 1 token for any missing or incorrect answers.
 
Wrap up  - Team with the most tokens wins today's points.
Today's winners were team 3 and 5 with 16 points.
 
 
 
Sept. 2