6th Grade Science Class

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Enjoy the winter break. We will see you on Monday January 3rd 2011.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, I had the students make up or finish sources of energy test. I also had students make up assignments that they were missing and not in the grade book. The rest of the class worked on Christmas activities that they completed with partners. We only have 5 days to Christmas and only 2 more to Christmas Break. Hang in there Christmas is almost here.

6th Grade Science Class

Concepts To Study For Sources Of Energy Test

1) potential energy: energy that is stored in an object’s position or its chemical composition

2) advantages of wind energy

3) global warming: tmosphere of our planet has warmed by an amount between .5 and .9 degrees Celsius

4) disadvantages of solar power

5) fossil fuels: from decaying plants and animals covered with mud and soil over millions of years

6) mechanical energy: type of energy is the result of the movement of machinery

7) geothermal energy: energy created form the heat within the earth

8) examples of renewable and nonrenewable energy resource

9) nuclear energy: an energy resource that comes from atoms

10) biomass: energy that comes from animal waste and living plants

11) reasons for and against drilling for oil in the ANWR territory in Alaska

12) disadvantages for nuclear power

13) kinetic energy: the energy of motion; something that must have mass
and be moving

14) advantages of biomass

15) examples of fossil fuels

16) light energy: electromagnetic or radiant light from the sun

17) the United States uses 20 million barrels of oil per day

18) renewable energy: energy resources that can be used over, that are
naturally replenished


sources of energy test is 25 multiple choice questions

6th Grade Science Class

I hope everybody enjoyed the snow day we had on Tuesday and it was good to see everyone back today. Due to the snow day, everything was pushed back one day. We will have the review day for the sources of energy test on Thursday, and the students will take the test on Friday. Today we finished watching the movie on energy resources and filled in the movie review wkst. The students then took a post assessment over energy resources. If they had a perfect score, they were able to grab a piece of candy out of the candy bag. There were many perfect scores today!

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, I passed out the study guide for the sources of energy test that will be on Thursday. We also took a preliminary assessment over the movie the class later watched Energy Resources. We went over the answers to the preliminary assessment and had the class fill in the video review as they watched the movie on Energy Resources. Finally we went over the video review. Tomorrow the students will take the post assessment on the movie "Energy Resources," and we will go over the answers to it. I will also pass out the reading A to Z packet on Energy Sources: The Pros and Cons and the students can see the grades they earned on the packet. Finally the students will watch a movie on Nuclear Energy: The Cost and The Benefits. On Wednesday we will review for the test playing a review game, and on Thursday the students will take the sources of energy test. The only homework for this week is to study for Thursday's test.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, we went over the homework on Global Warming and their scores were put in the grade book. The students were then put in partners and had to read the National Geographic Book on Using Energy. The students were given a set of questions that went along with the book that they had to answer. We will go over the answers tomorrow. Tomorrow, the students will continue reading about renewable forms of energy and have a homework assignment over wind and solar energy.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students finished ready the book Energy Sources: The Pros and Cons and completed a worksheet that contained filling in a Venn diagram comparing two types of energy, finding and listing synonyms and antonyms of each vocabulary word, and listing the independent and dependent clause of each sentence. We will go over the answers to the worksheet tomorrow. Tomorrow the students will have to complete a 14 question assignment that went along with the Energy Sources: The Pros and Con Book for a grade. The students will have a homework assignment over global warming that needs to be completed and turned in the next day. On Wednesday, we will go over the homework and begin looking at the National Geographic book on using energy.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students had to complete a fill in the blank paper on fossil fuels. We went over the answers once the students were done. The students also had to answer questions over the fossil fuels article. The students were given a homework assignment on natural gas and petroleum that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow for a grade. In class tomorrow, we will go over the homework and then watch a movie on fuel consumption, traffic and air pollution. If there is some time left in class, we will do a locker clean out.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students finished Focus On State Standards; Forms of Energy packet covering the types of energy. The students then read an article on renewable and nonrenewable energy source in which they had to answer questions on the smart board. The students finished with a fill in the blank assignment on renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. We went over that assignment at the end of class. Tomorrow the students will read an article about fossil fuels and be given a homework assignment over natural gas and petroleum.

6th Grade Science Class

Have a Happy Thanksgiving and Enjoy the Thanksgiving Break! See you on Tuesday...

Potential & Kinetic Energy Experiment

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students exchanged papers and graded the forms of energy homework from last night. I collected it and used it for an academic grade. Next I took the students down to the computer lab to take the Global Scholar Test On Science. The test was 12 multiple choice questions covering the concepts that we have covered this year in science. Finally I handed out the homework on types of energy that needs to be completed and is due tomorrow. In tomorrow's class, we will go over the homework and do an experiment on potential and kinetic energy. The students will record the data from the experiment and turn it in for a effort grade. There will be no homework Thursday or Friday.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students worked in partners and read the articles out of the current science magazine. They also answered the clues to the crossword puzzle that went along with the articles they read. We went over the crossword puzzle at the end of class. Tomorrow the students will continue working out of the Focus On State Standards: Forms Of Energy Packet. The students will also be given a homework assignment on forms of energy that will be collected and be given a grade when they come to class Wednesday. On Wednesday the students will be taking the Global Scholar Science Test. It is an online test developed by the curriculum director that will be over everything we have covered in science. I will give a homework assignment on types of energy that needs to be completed and due on Thursday.

6th Grade Science Class

In today's class, the students finished up the assignments I had the substitute hand out while I was on the Washington DC trip. I also gave the students a matter study guide to help prepare them for the test. The students will have a test over matter on Tuesday that will have 25 multiple choice questions and a bonus. The students can make their own study guide from the one I gave them and can use it on the test or just study the study guide to get them ready for the test. On Wednesday the students will start an unit on energy. Here is a copy of the study guide for the test on matter tomorrow.


Matter Study Guide

Carbon: a black substance made by burning
Chemical Changes: changes that happen at a molecular level, making one or more new substances; usually comes with color change,bubbles, or temperature change
Chemistry: the study of mixing chemicals
Excessive: more than necessary
Irreversible: not able to be reversed
Leavening Agents: ingredients used to make bake goods rise
States of Matter: solid, liquid, or gas
Molecules: the smallest unit of matter that still has parts
Oxidation: the process where oxygen mixes with another substance
Physical Change: changes that do not change the identity of a substance
Tarnish: black coating that appears on silver when air touches it
Closed System: a set of matter with boundaries that mass can’t cross
Conservation: the saving of something
Mass: a measurement of how much a substance an object has
Matter: something that takes up space and has mass
Open system: a set of matter where mass can come and go from the environment
Volume: the amount of space an object takes up
Weight: a measurement of gravity’s pull on an object
Solid: has a definite volume and a definite shape; atoms packed tightly
Liquid: has a definite volume but not a definite shape; atoms spread out
Gas: doesn’t have either a definite shape or definite volume;
atoms spread way out
Combustibility: property of matter that has the ability to be burned
Elasticity: property of matter that has the ability to be stretched
Buoyancy: property of matter that has the ability to stay a float
Solubility: property of matter that has the ability to be dissolvable
Viscosity: property of matter that has the ability to flow easily
Archimedes Theory: crown displaced water; the crown took up volume
Alchemist: a person who studies matter

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students continued to work out of Focus On Ohio State Standards: Conservation Of Matter And Energy Packet. We will finish the matter portion of the packet on Monday. Tomorrow the students will work in groups of three creating a physical and chemical change in matter poster drawing and explaining many examples of matter. On Thursday, the students will work in partners on a matter review crossword puzzle in which the teacher will go over the answers at the end of class and collect. On Friday, the students will work with one other person in their pursuit of answering every matter review question in the packet correct to receive candy on Monday. The packet is 100 questions and the partners who answers the most questions correct will receive candy. The test over matter will be on Tuesday. It will be 25 multiple choice questions with a short answer bonus. I will be out of the building the next three days chaperoning the 8th grade trip to Washington DC. Please have the students be on their best behavior for the substitute teacher. There will be no homework this week.

6th Grade Science Class

In science class today we went over the homework how chemical reactions happen. We then passed out the new Focus On Ohio Standards: Conservation of Matter and Energy Packet and began working on building background, key vocabulary, and key concepts. There is no homework assignment tonight. We will only complete the first chapter out of the packet on matter. The students will take a test on matter the week of November 8th. Next week I will be out of the classroom Wednesday through Friday as I am helping chaperon the 8th grade trip to DC. If the students are attending the Halloween Dance Friday afternoon, make sure they bring $2.00 for admittance and snacks. Also dress up for Halloween tomorrow, its always fun. Anyways have fun at the community pep rally/parade/bonfire tonight and the Fairless vs. Tuslaw game on Friday.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today the students finished filling out the data sheet on the five experiments we did in class on Monday dealing with ice, steel wool pads in vinegar, baking soda and vinegar, apple slices, and burning candles. The students turned the data sheet in for a grade. Next we continued working out of the Focus On Ohio Standards: Chemical and Physical Changes Packet. Some classes have finished that up but others are still working on the last remaining pages dealing with physical and chemical changes of the human body, industry, and designing an experiment. The class finished with a homework assignment on the States Of Matter Crossword Puzzle. It is due tomorrow and here are some of the answers to help the students out ..1) slide 4) solids 6) spread 10) evaporation 11) faster 12) three 13) farther 16) atoms 17) states of matter 20) freezing 21) boiling point.

Are These Experiments Physical Or Chemical Changes In Matter?

6th Grade Science Class

In science class today, we went over the homework on how matter changes giving the students 5 points if the assignment was completed at the time we went over it. Next we continued working out of the Focus On Ohio Standards: Chemical And Physical Changes discussing physical changes in size, shape, and state. We also discussed melting versus burning in which once a substance is burned then it becomes a chemical change because that substance can't go back to what it once was by taking away heat. Next the students had to complete a stop and think section that covered the reading they did earlier. Then the students had to decide if oil, vinegar, and herbs mixed together to make salad dressing is a chemical or physical change in matter. Finally the students had to classify physical changes in the lunches they ate this week. The students were also given a homework assignment Changes: Physical or Chemical? wkst. that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today the student completed a review activity on mass and volume in which they had to find the mass and volume of a golf ball, a wooden block, water, and a balloon. Most classes made it to the reading of their put together mini book and figured out the mass and volume of the golf ball and wooden block. Tomorrow the students will finish finding the volume and mass of water and balloon and compare them to the wooden block and golf ball noting the similarities and differences. The students will have a homework assignment on how matter changes that needs to be completed and turned in on Wednesday. On Wednesday the students will get back into Focus On Ohio Standards: Chemical and Physical Changes Packet.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today the students finished reading the articles in the current science magazine and completing the skillbuilder worksheet. Next the students were given a list of matter and had to figure out if the matter was going through a physical change or a chemical change. As a class we went over the answers to that activity. Then the students in groups read a short book "Matter Matter Everywhere" and answered ten questions that went along with the book. We went over the answers to the questions in some classes; in other classes we will do that activity tomorrow. Tomorrow we will start working out of "Focus on State Standards: Physical and Chemical Changes" Packet. The students will also have a homework assignment on the changing states of matter.

6th Grade Science Class

In class we finished up the rocks and minerals unit as the students in groups completed the Focus on State Standards Rocks and Minerals Packet. As a class we went over the answers to the questions and activities. I also have passed out the rocks and minerals study guide on Tuesday to help them prepare for the test that was today. The test today was 25 multiple choice questions and a bonus covering everything in this unit. Tomorrow the students will be reading out of the current science magazine and doing a crossword puzzle that goes along with the reading activity.

6th Grade Science Class: Rock Key Activities

6th Grade Science Class: Looking for Rocks

6th Grade Science Class

In science class today the students had an opportunity to find out the kinds of rocks they gathered on our trip to the different buildings yesterday. They followed a rock guide using the website http://www.rockhounds.com/rockshop/rockkey/index.html. The guide had them answer different questions as well as do different activities like scratch their rock on glass(to see if it would scratch the glass), scratch the rock with a nail to see if it would chip sand, take a hammer and break the rock to see inside the rock for crystals or bands, and drop their rock in vinegar to see if their rock will fizz. The students then identified the type of rock they had. I hope to upload some of the pictures of the activities they have done in and out of class the past two days tomorrow. The students were given a rock review for homework that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow.

6th Grade Science Class

In science class today we worked out of the Focus On Ohio Standards curriculum Rocks and Minerals as we reviewed the three types of rock, rock cycle, and minerals. The students had a homework assignment: uses of rocks and minerals worksheet that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow. As soon as we get good weather, the class we take a walk down to the elementary school and dig around for rocks that they will be bring back to class. The following day, the students will complete different activities following the rock key that will determine what kind of rock is it. They will keep track of their data and turn it in for a grade. I hope to do this tomorrow or Thursday at the latest. The students will have a test over rocks and minerals on Tuesday October 5th.

6th grade Science Class

In class today we went over the earth puzzle homework that was assigned last night. Next as a class we went over the rock riddle paper that the students were working on the last two days. The students should have put those papers in their green folder. Next we watched a short movie on rock types, minerals, and crystal systems in which they had to fill out a paper with questions about each topic. We then we over the rocks/minerals/crystal systems paper together. Finally I handed out the homework "the rock crossword" that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow. Here are the across answers to get the students started..
2) compacted, 4) luster, 6) crystallization, 7) hardness, 11) weathering, 12) sedimentary, 15) metamorphic, 16) erosion, and 18) crystal. Tomorrow or Friday depending on the schedule of events in the district, I hope to take the students on a walk to the elementary school to look for rocks that we can take back to the school and compare them to their rock papers and samples to find out what kind of rock is it.

Rock Cycle Posters

These posters were created by 6th graders to show that they know how the rock cycle works.

Rock Cycle Posters

6th Grade Science Class

First of all I apologize for not blogging at least twice last week in updating what is going on in science class. There was a technology issue during school hours. In class today, the students read an article on sedimentary rock highlighting the important information in the article. The students then using rock samples were able to color in the types of sedimentary rock. The students next worked in partners to answer the rock riddles and puzzles. There was no homework for tonight. Tomorrow the students will read an article on metamorphic rock highlighting the important information in the article. The students will finish the rock riddles and puzzle paper. We will go over the paper as a class. The students will then have a homework assignment "earth puzzle worksheet" that needs to be completed and turned in on Wednesday.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students finished their rock cycle posters explaining what the rock cycle is as well as drawing the rock cycle. Afterwords the students read an article on introducing geology and answering five questions about the article. We went over the five questions as a class. Next the students in groups of four read p.137 and 138 out of an old textbook on igneous rock. As a group they had to answer six questions as we went over them at the end of class. Finally the students were given a homework assignment Asking Mr. Aims worksheet that needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow. In class tomorrow, the students will be reading more about igneous rock and then getting into sedimentary rock.

6th Grade Science Class

In science class today, I collected the homework An Inside Look at the San Andrea Fault for a grade. I also gave a falcon buck for each assignment that was completed. The students watched a short movie introducing the three different types of rocks metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous and the rock cycle. Afterword the students at their tables read an article on the rock cycle and answered 4 questions. As a class we went over the four questions, and then I passed out the homework assignment. The homework assignment is Even Rocks Change worksheet the needs to be completed and turned in tomorrow.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, we went over the scientific method quizzes. We also read an article on the structure of earth and answered questions as a class. The students finished class reading a chapter out of the old textbook on movements of the earth's crust and fill in a science puzzle covering topic like earthquakes, seismic waves, and Pangaea. Tomorrow the class will finish the reading in the textbook and go over the answers to the science puzzle. The students will finish class with a homework assignment on An Inside Look At The San Andreas Fault. The homework assignment will be due on Wednesday.

6th Grade Science Class

In school today, the students started reading about the layers of the earth. They discovered the temperature of each layer, the distance or thickness of each layer, and if each layer is made of solid or liquid rock. They answered questions dealing with radius and diameter of each layer. We will continue talking about layers of the earth and the rock cycle next week. Have a good long weekend and see you Tuesday.

6th grade science class

Here is a copy of the study guide that can be used to study from or make one on your own for tomorrow's quiz. The quiz will be ten multiple choice questions. Good luck on tomorrow's quiz.

Scientific Method Study Guide

Observation: The process of using your senses to notice your environment


Ask Questions: step in the scientific method that needs to take place before coming up with the hypothesis. Questions that involve using your 5 senses


Conclusion: the step in the scientific method that approves or disapproves the hypothesis


Data: term used to describe the information gained from the experiment


Hypothesis: a prediction or an educated guess for an answer to a question


Results: the data from the experiment


Procedure: a series of steps in the experiment


Scientific Method: The way scientists search for the answers to their questions is through this science process skill


Control Group: In the experiment, what is the term used to describe the group that doesn’t receive special treatment in which
the data is later compared to the experimental group

Experimental Group: In the experiment, what is the term used to describe the group that does receives special treatment in
which the data is later compared to the control group

Experiment: the activity or procedure that takes place after coming up with the hypothesis

Scientific Method Activity

6th Grade Science Class

In class today, the students wrote in their journal books what they knew about the scientific method. We quickly reviewed the scientific method from Friday. The students then watched a movie clip on how a student was able to distinguish the kind of sandwich he had that was wrapped in foil using the scientific method. We finished class with an ice pop experiment going through the steps of the scientific method writing in the data. Tomorrow the students are going to read an article on the scientific method and, I am going to do an experiment using control groups and experimental groups. I will also hand out the study guide for the quiz on Wednesday.

6th Grade Science Class

In class today we finished using the scientific method to figure out what the mysterious orange liquid in the petri dish was. The students came up with observations that led to questions. The students then stated a hypothesis of what they believe the orange liquid was. They also created the experiment and wrote down their data. Finally the students from their data came up with a conclusion to either approve or disapprove their hypothesis. We also read more about the scientific method answering comprehension questions that went along with the article. Have a good weekend and see you on Monday.

First Day Of School

It was a fun first day of school as I introduced myself to all the students, went over classroom rules, topics covered in 6th grade science, and what I am taking grades on. We also did a fun introduction activity in which they we able to meet other students in the class, and I was able to learn a little bit about each students' personality. Tomorrow the class will get into discussions about the scientific method and will finish up with a in class assignment. It was great to meet all the new students as I will try to remember each name of every student. Have a great school year..... Mr. Hrynko

Welcome...

Welcome parents and students to the Fairless Middle School open house for new 6th graders who are coming over from the elementary school.