IMPORTANT THINGS COMING UP:
1. Science fair is coming! The entire 6th grade is requiring a science fair project. Students will be receiving support in all content classes as well as some connections. Please be on the look out for a letter and timeline coming home with your student. They will need a COMPOSITION NOTEBOOK the week after Fall Break AND A TRI-FOLD BOARD (in December). This week we began discovering the differences between all 8 planets. Once we are done gathering information, students will create planet trading cards. This is a really fun project that requires a good deal of critical thinking. Students will need at least 10 - 4x6 index cards. If you have extras you could donate, I would greatly appreciate it. Week of September 9-13
Students this week will finish studying gravity and inertia before beginning planets. We will have a gravity lab and an inertia lab. Students will get to experience and test the gravitational pull on 4 different weighted items as they fall to the earth and use a marble and a cup to witness inertia and record what they see. Stayed tuned for the announcement of our first unit test! We will conclude our learning about the evidence behind the Big Bang Theory at the beginning of this week before transitioning into how the interaction of gravity and inertia governs the motion of objects in the solar system.
We will take notes before completing discovery labs on inertia and then gravity. Here is a great introduction about the interaction between gravity and inertia |
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