May 29, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• No video today. Follow instructions on the presentation and the Agenda below.

• Week at a Glance document: 5/26-5/29

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/26-5/29

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can completing any missing work and/or review my birding skills by completing a sit spot assignment.

Agenda
1. Missing Work: Check your Science grade on Synergy. Make up a missing assignment. When you make up work, send Ms. Lopez an email with the assignment name and date!

2. Use the distance learning presentation and follow instructions for sit spot #2 assignment. You will complete it in your science notebook, then go to Google Classroom to turn in the assignment.

May 28, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's Video, please watch!!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/26-5/29

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/26-5/29

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can completing any missing work and/or review my birding skills by completing a sit spot assignment.

Agenda
1. Missing Work: Check your Science grade on Synergy. Make up a missing assignment. When you make up work, send Ms. Lopez an email with the assignment name and date!

2. Use the distance learning presentation and follow instructions for the sit spot assignment. You will complete it in your science notebook, then go to Google Classroom to turn in the assignment.

May 27, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• No video today!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/26-5/29

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/26-5/29

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can take care of myself by completing any missing work and doing something that will help me be healthy and happy.

Agenda
1. Missing Work: Check your Science grade on Synergy. Make up a missing assignment. When you make up work, send Ms. Lopez an email with the assignment name and date!

2.Take Care of Yourself: Check out Aptos Junior High website for Wellness resources for students.

May 26, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/26-5/29

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/26-5/29

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can demonstrate my knowledge of rock transformations by completing a notebook check and final assessment.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions


2. Go to Google Classroom to complete the Notebook Check 5/26/20, Press Turn In when finished. 

3. Click the link to complete the Final Rock Transformations Assessment Press Submit

May 22, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/18-5/22

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/18-5/22

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can explain why the rock from the Rocky Mountains and the rock from the Great Plains have similar mineral compositions.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions

2. Discussion of Models: Watch the daily screencastify video and use the distance learning presentation to find out about how the rocks of Rocky Mountains and Great Plains can be different types of rocks but have similar mineral composition.

3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com and go to the Rock Transformations Unit, Lesson 3.4, Activity 4: Write about how the rocks of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains formed. Click Update/Hand In/Next Activity

May 21, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/18-5/22

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/18-5/22

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can understand and model how rocks form and change as matter moves through the Rock Cycle.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions

(you do not need to log in to Amplify today)

2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation and follow the instructions to complete today's activities.

• Watch Brain Pop video (link in presentation)
• Create Rock Cycle model in your notebook

May 20, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/18-5/22

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/18-5/22

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can take care of myself by completing any missing work and doing something that will help me be healthy and happy.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Missing Work: Check your Science grade on Synergy. Make up a missing assignment. When you make up work, send Ms. Lopez an email with the assignment name and date!
3.Take Care of Yourself: Check out Aptos Junior High website for Wellness resources for students.

How did the Hawaiian Islands form? If you're curious, watch this video!

May 19, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/18-5/22

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/18-5/22

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can use a simulation to explore how subduction and uplift lead to the transformation of rocks.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com and go to the Rock Transformations Unit, Chapter 3, Lesson 3.2, Activity 3: Moving Rock
3. Open the Distance Learning Presentation and follow the instructions to complete today's activities.

May 18, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/18-5/22

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/18-5/22

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can actively read and annotate an article about the oldest rock formations on Earth.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation and follow the instructions to complete today's activities:
Unit: Rock Transformations, Chapter 3, Lesson 3.1

• Activity 2: “The Oldest Rock Formations on Earth”
• Activity 3: Discussing Annotations

May 15, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/11-5/15

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/11-5/15

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can explain the scenario that could have caused rock from the Rocky Mountains to have transformed into the rock from the Great Plains, and the scenario that could have caused rock from the Great Plains to have transformed into the rock from the Rocky Mountains.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation and follow the instructions to complete today's activity: Activity 4: Reflecting on the Claims

• How do the rocks of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains form? How might these rocks be connected?
• Read the following claims and think through the possibilities. 
• To be completed in your Science Notebook - title “Reflecting on the Claims”

May 14, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/11-5/15

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/11-5/15

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can make models to show how igneous and sedimentary rocks form.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation and follow the instructions to complete today's activity: Modeling How Rocks Form. Draw the models in your science notebook. (you will not need to log in to Amplify today)

May 13, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/11-5/15

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/11-5/15

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can take care of myself by completing any missing work and doing something that will help me be healthy and happy.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Missing Work: Check your Science grade on Synergy. Make up a missing assignment. When you make up work, send Ms. Lopez an email with the assignment name and date!
3.Take Care of Yourself: Check out Aptos Junior High website for Wellness resources for students.

May 12, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/11-5/15

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/11-5/15

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can explain how energy transforms rocks.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation

• Use the Learning Presentation to complete the activity in your science notebook.
• Write the title “Energy Transforming Rocks” and update your Table of Contents.
• Look at the example on the slide.
• Complete one of the three choices that follow by using the word bank and writing at least three complete sentences in your science notebook.
• To be completed in the Science Notebook

May 11, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/11-5/15

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/11-5/15

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can complete a vocabulary word sort to show my understanding of the processes that form igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation
3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com

• Complete Lesson 2.4, Activity 1: Warm Up - Use the igneous and sedimentary rock sorting tool. Press the blue Hand In button. In Activity 1, click Update/Hand In/Next Activity

May 8, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/4-5/8

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/4-5/8

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can demonstrate my understanding of how rocks transform by completing a notebook check and a quiz.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation
(No need to Log in to Amplify today)

• Notebook Check 5/8/20: To be completed in Google Classroom. Follow the instructions on the presentation carefully!! Press Turn In when finished. 

• Rock Transformations Quiz: Click here for Google Form Don't forget to press Submit

May 7, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/4-5/8

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/4-5/8

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can explain how magma and sediment form.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation
3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com

• Go to Lesson 2.2 and do the following:
• Activity 4: Fill in the four blanks in Amplify. This will be graded as a four point quiz!  Click Update/Hand In/Next Activity

May 6, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/4-5/8

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/4-5/8

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can reflect on distance learning and make up any missing work.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Complete any missing science work.
3. Optional (extra credit 4 point assignment): Read This Article and Respond on this Google Form. How do you feel about distance learning? Do you relate with anything the student who wrote the article thinks about distance learning vs. classroom learning?

May 5, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/4-5/8

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/4-5/8

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can read and annotate an article to learn about the Devils Tower rock formation, and reflect on my annotations.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation
3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com

• Go to Lesson 2.2 and do the following:
• Activity 2: Actively read “Devil’s Tower”. Include a question and summary statement for each paragraph. Highlight the main ideas.
• Activity 3: Reflect on your annotations. On page 2, answer the question in the box: share the most important thing you learned instead of what you discussed with a partner.  Click Update/Hand In/Next Activity

Devil's Postpile National Monument Website

May 4, 2020

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 5/4-5/8

• Distance Learning Presentation 5/4-5/8

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can re-watch a video to understand and be able to explain the process of weathering in detail.

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation

Watch the Understanding Weathering Video a second time (in the Presentation)

3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com

• Go to Rock Transformations Lesson 2.1 Activity 4
• Answer the question in at least three complete sentences. Click Update/Hand In/Next Activity.

May 1, 2020

NOTE!! I made an error on today's video. You only need to turn in the model where you create it, then you will see it on the original screen. That's all you need to do. Sorry!!

Resource Documents: 

• Today's video PLEASE WATCH!

• Week at a Glance document: 4/27-5/1

• Distance Learning Presentation 4/27-5/1

• Check your grades on Synergy and check Amplify for comments on your work.

• Please email me if you have questions: julia_lopez@pvusd.net

Success Criteria
I can use a modeling tool to identify which energy sources cause weathering and melting of rocks and where these processes occur. 

Agenda
1. Watch today's video for instructions
2. Open the Distance Learning Presentation

Watch the Understanding Weathering Video in the Presentation

3. Log in to Amplify through Clever.com

• Go to Rock Transformations Unit, Lesson 2.1, Activity 3: Create a model in “Weathering and Melting”. Press Hand In within the model. Then, your model should be uploaded into Activity 3. Press Hand In within the activity to submit it to your teacher.