sept 28

I posted the grades for anyone that finished my test. These grades were scaled.

sept 27, the test is tomorrow!

I hope you haven't waited until tonight to start studying for the test! Other than everything for Mr. Hennessy, there are many things covered on my portion of the test: Definitions for...Science and technology, hypothesis, theory and law, each part of the Scientific method, outlier, independent or manipulated variable, dependent or responding variable, control and variable group, controlled experiment, bar/pie/line graphs, smoothed lines or line of best fit, Requirements for each step of the Scientific method, how to interpret data tables and select the best sets of data within one, how to set up a graph measurements in the metric system and SI units when to use each type of graph ...line, bar or pie How to write a hypothesis how to write a conclusion, including the appropriate language If you have been doing the work for the project and homework, then if you study tonight you should do well. Good Luck

sept 26

Good job today on the review for the test. If you know what we went over, you should be fine. Make sure you know the steps of the engineering design so we can go over it during Mr. Hennessy's review. The test is Friday!!! If you struggled on the review, study the next two nights.

Great job on your drawings today for Mr. Hennessy. Tomorrow we review for the test on Friday which includes everything you learned from my class and Mr. Hennessy's class. Tonight I will try to include a document for review questions we will go over tomorrow. If you prepare it tonight the review will go much faster for you. Remember the expectation is that you check out both Mr.Worden's website and Mr. Hennessy's web site every night. Sometimes circumstances keep us from posting a blog, but we try our hardest to update it. The review will appear in student resources.

We need to continue with the presentations, but make sue you have all the steps, are following the lab rubric in the resources (except no abstract and no observations for this class), make sure you have a graph with the slopes or rates calculated. Make sure you have three pieces of evidence. This will make the presentations go quicker. If you already went make sure to make all corrections in order to obtain the highest grade.

Sept 17

You should have your presentations ready to go for tomorrow.

Sept 17

Tomorrow you will work on your leaf lab presentation. Keep in mind the following things:
It is an outline that follows the scientific method steps.
It has short phrases, not a script.
The hypothesis is in if ...then format
The data table and graph must have a title that mentions what variable is tested
There must be units on data and graph
line of best fit
summary of graph with mathematical relationship between the two groups
conclusion has three pieces of evidence to support or not support the hypothesis

You can present on Wednesday.