Starters

All of the starters in science class are completed in the spiral notebook used for all three team classes. The student must write for 5 minutes on a given topic. The topics for each day are given below:

8/28/13 - Science 9/3/13 - The Scientific Method 9/4/13 - Hypotheses 9/5/13 - Variables 9/6/13 - Experiments 9/9/13 - Your "Flipping your lid" Experiment 9/10/13 - Analyze and Data 9/11/13 - The Scientific Method 9/17/13 - Atoms and Matter 9/18/13 - Your "Wind" Experiment 9/19/13 - Atomic Theory over time 9/23/13 - Our model of the atom 9/24/13 - Atoms, molecules, and compounds 9/25/13 - Why our model of the atom is incorrect 9/30/13 - States of Matter 10/1/13 - Everything we have learned so far 10/3/13 - Mass 10/7/13 - Volume 10/8/13 - Density 10/9/13 - How do I find mass, volume, and density 10/10/13 - What do I use to find mass, volume, and density 10/14/13 - How can you change density 10/15/13 - What does density tell me 10/16/13 - How do mass and volume change density 10/21/13 - Your Bread Density Lab 10/22/13 - Did your experiment from yesterday work, why or why not? 10/23/13 - Finding density of liquids 10/28/13 - Bill Nye Buoyancy 10/29/13 - Why the Titanic sank 10/30/13 - Your plan to find the density of a gas 11/4/13 - Everything you have learned about density 11/6/13 - Temperature 11/7/13 - The ice melting demo 11/11/13 - Diffusion (give examples) 11/12/13 - Your rate of diffusion lab 11/13/13 - Expansion and Contraction 11/18/13 - The Earth 11/19/13 - The Layers of the Earth and their characteristics 11/20/13 - How to find the mass, volume, and density of liquids and solids 11/21/13 - Your Earth Materials Experiment 11/25/13 - What kinds of situations would allow Earth materials to separate by density? 11/26/13 - How are you going to build your barricade? 12/2/13 - Everything you have learned about the Earth 12/4/13 - Microscope Parts 12/5/13 - Cells 12/9/13 - Microscope 12/10/13 - Cell Parts 12/11/13 - Metaphors 12/12/13 - Your Metaphor of the cell 12/16/13 - The difference between plant and animal cells 12/17/13 - What did the cells look like under microscope? 12/18/13 - Osmosis 12/19/13 - Cell Parts 1/6/14 - Cells 1/7/14 - Characteristics of Life 1/9/14 - What are diseases? 1/13/14 - Circulatory System 1/14/14 - Respiratory System 1/15/14 - Digestive System 1/16/14 - Nervous System 1/21/14 - What does your disease do the systems of the body? 1/22/14 - 1/23/14 - Your disease 1/27/14 - Domino Effect about your disease 2/3/14 - What did you learn in the video on Thursday? 2/4/14 - Organs in the body 2/6/14 - What traits do we inherit from parents? 2/10/14 - Acquired Traits 2/11/14 - Inherited Traits 2/18/14 - Differences between inherited and acquired traits 2/19/14 - Heredity and Genetics 2/20/14 - Sexual and Asexual Reproduction 2/24/14 - How do organisms survive? 2/25/14 - Adaptations 2/26/14 - How do adaptations come to be? 2/27/14 - Dogs and types of dogs 3/3/14 - 3 Types of Adaptations 3/4/14 - Breeding on purpose 3/10/14 - How we classify people 3/11/14 - Nonliving, living and dead 3/12/14 - Classification Keys 3/13/14 - How to make a classification key 3/17/14 - Carl Linnaeus 3/18/14 - Characteristics of kingdoms 3/19/14 - Organisms in each kingdom 3/20/14 - Levels of Classification 3/24/14 - Kingdoms of classification 3/25/14 - Levels of classification with examples 3/26/14 - Classification 4/3/14 - Atoms 4/7/14 - Atom models 4/8/14 - Density 4/9/14 - States of Matter 4/10/14 - Density Simulation from yesterday 4/14/14 - Layers of the Earth 4/15/14 - How do earth's particles separate with moved by water? 4/16/14 - Cells 4/22/14 - Body Systems 4/23/14 - Levels of organization of the body 4/24/14 - Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction and Inherited vs. acquired traits 4/28/14 - Adaptations 4/29/14 - Classification 4/30/14 - Kingdoms

5/1/14 - Everything we have learned this year 5/12/14 - Scientists 5/14/14 - Your scientist 5/15/14 - What makes a scientist a scientist? 5/19/14 - Organs