Quarter 2, New Beginnings

Quarter 2, New Beginnings

Hello there, Today began the first full week of the second quarter. We continued with our learning about ways and causes for organisms changing over time. To begin class, we completed a small NSTA probe to see what we know…

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Text Tuesday: Natural Selection & Homologous Structures

Text Tuesday: Natural Selection & Homologous Structures

Hello everyone! Today we looked a mini-lesson about natural selection to prepare us for our in-depth study next week, and then switched gears to complete a Text Tuesday on homologous structures. We began class by playing a fun game/demo that modeled natural…

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Monday Happiness

Monday Happiness

Happy Monday everyone, Today was the best Monday to start to the week this school year! I have some of the BEST (I’m talking “créme de la créme” status) students this year! They really made today (my birthday) special with…

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We’re Really Thinking this Thursday!

We’re Really Thinking this Thursday!

Hey everyone! Today we covered a few mini lessons to prepare for our CFA #2 (Earth’s History, Structures & Processes). We did a brief overview for mechanical weathering, unconformity, porous and permeability, and geologic time scales and recorded those pieces…

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Text Tuesday with a Twist

Text Tuesday with a Twist

Hello everyone! Happy [Text] Tuesday! Today we read a multitude of informational texts about methods for determining the age of fossils and rocks, and climate patterns from Earth’s past. We started the day with a quick review about radioactive dating…

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