In class we have been working on test taking strategies in all the core areas of testing, language arts, math and science. Here is the site we have been using in class that you might find helpful.
http://lindon.alpinedistrict.org/webinstruct.html
This site has multiple choice tests based on the standards and objectives students have been learning all year.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Forbes Family Movie Night Schedule
We here at Forbes are having a fundraiser sponsored at The Water Gardens movie theater in Pleasant Grove right across the street from the Macey's grocery store. The fundraiser will be Thursday, April 21st and it will run from their 3 pm show until their late show.
How it works. We need to recruit as many people as we possibly can. Each person that goes to the movie, any movie of your choice, on this evening and tells the box office they are with Forbes, all their ticket proceeds will come to us, that is $3 per person which is awesome! I am hoping we will have an amazing turn out so our 6th graders won't have to pay for Clear Creek.
Long story short, please help if you can! Come one, come all, bring your families and your neighbors and your friends! Share this even with everyone you know.
Thanks in advance!
MICROORGANISM REVIEW WEEK
Here are some sites that are very helpful while reviewing microorganisms:
http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/core/6th/TRB6/default.htm This is the state site with a literacy reading, vocabulary, lessons, and assessments.
http://peer.tamu.edu/curriculum_modules/Properties/module_1/lesson.htm This site gives specifics of all the types of microorganisms, pictures, good and bad types and various facts that are necessary to know for the state test. There are also games available. Use the following review to navigate the site.
Students need to be able to identify by description or picture; bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and virus. They should be able to also list good and bad examples of each.
Lastly, students need to be familiar with the scientists who pioneered the use of the microscope and how to control microorganisms in the use of vaccines and modern day anti-biotics.
http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/core/6th/TRB6/default.htm This is the state site with a literacy reading, vocabulary, lessons, and assessments.
http://peer.tamu.edu/curriculum_modules/Properties/module_1/lesson.htm This site gives specifics of all the types of microorganisms, pictures, good and bad types and various facts that are necessary to know for the state test. There are also games available. Use the following review to navigate the site.
Directions:
1. In the web address bar type : http://peer.tamu.edu/curriculum_modules/Properties/module_1/lesson.htm
2. You will be reviewing the different microorganisms you have learned about. Answer questions after you have read each section.
Bacteria
1. List some places bacteria can live. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Draw and label the example bacteria shown.
3. What is at the center of the bacteria structure? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. How does a bacteria move around, what does it have to help it move? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. What type of bacteria cause disease? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Click on the yellow activity icon. List three good bacteria and 3 bad bacteria.
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Protozoa
1. What do protozoa feed on? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Draw and label the example protozoa.
3. What are some sources of infection from protozoa? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. List three protozoa infections, their symptoms, and preventions.
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Fungi
1. Describe the important role of molds in nature, what purpose do they serve?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Tell two common ways in which fungi are beneficial to you.
a.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
b.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What can mold look like and how is it spread around? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What symptoms can show that you are sick from mold? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Draw the two structures for mold.
6. Click on the yellow activity icon and guess which fungi are good, bad, or both.
Students need to be able to identify by description or picture; bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and virus. They should be able to also list good and bad examples of each.
Lastly, students need to be familiar with the scientists who pioneered the use of the microscope and how to control microorganisms in the use of vaccines and modern day anti-biotics.
Biology Microscope
Internet Activity
http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~mbi-ws/microscopes/index.html
Founding Fathers of Microscopy
______ and Zacharias _________, ~1590, _________ Eyeglass Makers
* Credit for the first ______________ is usually given to ______________ Janssen, pictured at the left, in Middleburg, Holland, around the year _________.
* The magnification of these early scopes ranged from ____ to ____, depending on the size of the ______________ openings
Robert ___________, 1635-1703, ____________ Chemist, Mathematician, Physicist
In _________________ (1665), he coined the word _______ to describe the features of plant tissue (_________ from the bark of an ________ tree) he was able to discover under the _______________.
Anton ______ ________________, _________ - _________
Leeuwenhoek made simple (_____ ______) microscopes. He was not the first person to build a microscope, but the microscopes that he did build were the ________ ones for that time period. __________________ was the first person to describe ____________ (from ________ scrapings), _______________ (from pond water), helped to prove the theory of __________ ___________.
Friday, April 8, 2011
DATES TO REMEMBER
Thursday, April 21 - Forbes Family Movie Night at Water Gardens Cinema 6 (across from Macey's) Anyone who goes in and purchases a ticket for a movie showing between 3pm-close and says they are from Forbes will help raise money for 6th graders to go to Clear Creek.
Friday, April 22 - School wide Walk-a-Thon.
Thursday, April 28 - The art fair and recyclables fashion show is in the evening.
Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 13 - Little Caesar's Pizza Kit Fundraiser. Helping to raise funds to purchase an art curriculum for use next year.
Friday, April 22 - School wide Walk-a-Thon.
Thursday, April 28 - The art fair and recyclables fashion show is in the evening.
Monday, May 2 - Friday, May 13 - Little Caesar's Pizza Kit Fundraiser. Helping to raise funds to purchase an art curriculum for use next year.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Heat and Light Review
Heat and Light Test Review
1. Which of the following is an example of heat conduction?
A. An air vent from a furnace sending hot air into the house.
B. A metal cup heating up when hot water is poured into it.
C. The sun melting the ice formed on a frosty lawn.
D. Cool air sinking to the ground on a cold night.
2. Which is the best activity to help keep a home cool in the summer?
A. Open the refrigerator often.
B. Turn off the television, radios and computers.
C. Open the windows during the day.
D. Close the shades where the sun is shining.
3. In a room in the wintertime, where would you find the warmest air?
4. What happens to the light particles when light hits an uneven surface.
A. They are reflected off in a straight line.
B. They are scattered in many directions.
C. They are absorbed by the surface.
D. They pass through the surface.
5. Why do you see your image in a mirror?
A. Light is reflected.
B. Light is refracted.
C. Light is absorbed.
D. Light is diffused.
6. Which of the following is an example of a light reflector?
A. the planet Mars
B. lightning
C. exploding fireworks
D. stars
7. Why is the moon classified as a light reflector instead of a light producer?
8. Nate was stirring hot soup on the stove. Why should he use a wooden spoon instead
of a metal spoon?
9. Heather put a straw in a glass of water. When she looked at the side of the glass she
observed that the straw appeared larger and also appeared to be broken. Why did it
appear this way?
10. Explain the difference between a light producer and a light reflector.
11. By what process does heat energy travel from the sun to Earth?
12. What makes a hot air balloon rise? The particles of air in the balloon
A. decrease in size and make the balloon lighter than air.
B. increase in size and make the balloon lighter than air.
C. are farther apart and make the balloon lighter than air.
D. are closer together and make the balloon lighter than air.
13. What happens to light when it passes through a translucent material such as waxed
paper? Most of the light
A. passes through.
B. is reflected in a straight line.
C. is absorbed and very little is reflected.
D. is not allowed to pass through.
14. Why are curved mirrors used in car headlights?
A. They make things look smaller.
B. They make things look bigger.
C. They focus light straight ahead.
D. They spread light in many directions.
15. Which of the following is an example of a light reflector?
A. fluorescent light
B. fireflies
C. concave mirror
D. campfire
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16. Explain why you are able to see the colors of the rainbow when you look at
sunlight shining through the spray from a sprinkler.
17. Why can a person see his or her reflection in a mirror?
Monday, April 4, 2011
Forbes Family Movie Night
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