FINAL Grades Posted

All assignments have been entered along with the extra credit. 

DANCE FESTIVAL CLOTHING

The dance festival will start and end with the 6th grade performing.  The first dance is a folk dance, please have your child wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt.  Our second dance is Thriller.  Students are strongly encouraged to dress up like zombies for this performance.  Some students are wearing old Halloween costumes, others are finding old worn out clothes and adding further tears, it would be awesome if most of the kids could wear white make up on their face with blacked out eyes.  Whatever is chosen by you for your child to wear please make sure that they can change into it quickly.  Students will only have 5 minutes to change!  Thanks for all your help in making this a dance festival to remember.

Final Grades and Dance Festival

Last Wednesday every student took home a progress report to be signed by a parent/guardian.  All grades have been entered into skyward.  The only item left to enter is the movie night extra credit. 

For dance festival we are dancing two dances.  The first dance our folk dance, it is suggested that students wear a white t-shirt and blue jeans.  The second dance, we are dancing to Thriller.  For this dance students are encouraged to dress like zombies, no blood though.  Students will only have 5 minutes to change in between the routines so zombie outfits need to be easy to get in and out of.

WHAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW!

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED THIS YEAR! 

6^TH GRADE SCIENCE STUDY GUIDE

ALL TERMS NEED TO BE DEFINED and EXPANDED ON.

HEAT

·      Synonyms –transfer/flow

·      Types of heat (3 types), examples of each

·      Heat always flows from ________ to _______

·      Conductors, what it is, 2 examples

·      Insulators, what it is, 2 examples

Light

·      Define light

·      Define Reflection

·      Define Refraction

·      Angle of Incidence = Angle of Reflection (Draw)

·      Prism, what does it do?

·      Electromagnetic Spectrum Order, Biggest to Smallest

·      Natural Producers, 3 examples

·      Natural Reflectors, 3 examples

·      Speed

·      How it travels

·      Visible Light

·      Convex/Concave

Sound

·      Define sound

·      Volume – List synonyms, waves look like

·      Pitch – List Synonyms, waves look like

·      How it travels

·      How to increase/decrease volume.

·      How to increase/decrease pitch.

Microorganisms

·      3 scientists who pioneered the field of microorganisms and what they did.

·      Bacteria – shape, 2 diseases caused

·      Fungi – shape, 2 diseases caused

·      Protists/Protozoa – shape, 3 ways to move, 2 diseases caused

·      All living things must have these 7 things:

·      Why is a virus different?  2 diseases it causes.

·      5 foods we have because of microorganisms.

·      Major role of microorganisms.

·      List three good things microorganisms do.

Moon

·      Moon Phases

·      What can be studied on the moon?

·      Length of phases.

·      Time to rotate/orbit/direction

Seasons

·      Earth’s tilt, how many degrees?

·      Longest, Shortest days.  NAMES

·      Angle of sun in winter/summer

·      Draw direction Earth rotates in and diagram the seasons.

·      What is an equinox?

·      When is Earth closest and furthest from the sun?

Solar System

·      Planet Order

·      Planet Facts (2), include direction of rotation.

·      Describe relationship between MASS/GRAVITY.

·      Scientist who came up with the theory of gravity.

·      Compare/Contrast – Asteroid, Meteoroids/Meteors/Meteorites, Comets

·      Probes job

·      Orbit direction

·      Scientist who proved Earth’s rotation and how.

Universe

·      Difference between Radio/Optical Telescope

·      Earth’s EXACT location.

·      Constellations, zodiac, 3 circumpolar, 1 for each season

·      What blocks seeing constellations during other seasons?

·      Geocentric vs. Heliocentric

·      Two scientists who discovered/supported the heliocentric theory.

Scientific Method – Know the order and an example of each.

·      Define Purpose

·      Define Research

·      Define Hypothesis

·      Define Experiment

·      Define Analysis

·      Define Conclusion

·      Define Variable

·      Define Control

TEST PREP

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. 

Forbes Family Movie Night Schedule

Hello everyone!

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.

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.

______________________________________        ______________________________________

______________________________________        ______________________________________

______________________________________        ______________________________________

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.

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

History of the Microscope

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 __________ ___________.