Thursday, January 21, 2010

Jan. 18-22: Finish Freshwater

We're finishing our discussions about freshwater this week. We'll finish taking notes about the reservoirs where water is found here on Earth (atmosphere, groundwater, icecaps, and oceans), we'll do a mini-lab about the properties of water (cohesion, adhesion, and dissolving power), and we'll make up any work that was missed last week. I was sick last week, so here's what they should have done: made new notebooks, read and discussed water conservation possibilities, read and discussed about water quality indicators, and read articles about pollution found in our local area. LOTS of reading...sorry... but it's hard to come up with more active things for subsitutes to do with a class of students they don't know.

Speaking of substitutes... unfortunately, my three 9th grade classes gave the substitute the hardest time. Please remember how to behave when there is a guest in our room. I expect better in the future!

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