Monday

• Ask questions.

• Collect and organize data.

• Define surface tension.

• Determine what factors affect surface tension.

• Learn about controls, constants, and variables in experiments.
• Review what constitutes valid experimental procedure.

Assignment:  Analyze and Conclude Drops on a Penny Lab.  Notebook - purple words due.

• Work together to gather evidence and make conclusions.
• Make Accurate and complete observations of soil samples.
• Identify the similarities and differences between soils.

• Describe the samples completely enough to be identified by someone else.

Assignment:  Soil Brainstorming.  Observations of soils. 

• Develop a definition of soil based on observations and descriptions - soil consists of weathered rocks and decomposed organic material from dead plants, animals, and bacteria.

• Investigate the pH of soil.

Assignment:  Definition of soil. 

• Describe the source of soil.

• Explain how the different properties of soil affect plant growth.

• Describe how various climates affect soil.

Assignment:  Soil Columns.  Read 288-293.  18 detail stickies.

• Investigate the composition soil by separating it into layers with water.

• Create and observe a water-and-soil column.

Assignment:  Measure Soil Columns.