5-6 Science 2025-2026 Wednesdays, 1:00 – 2:30
Instructor: Andrea Sylve asylve@hotmail.com
Week of November 19th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 104, 105, and 106 and the Chapter 6 Test to turn in Wednesday, December 3rd.
Students must answer one question from section E. Students can choose whether to answer question 27 OR question 28. The other one is worth 3 bonus points.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break, and I will see you on December 3rd.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Annual- grows, produces seeds, and dies in the same growing season.
Biennial- produces leaves in the first season, but produces seeds and dies in the second season
Perennial- grows flowers and produces seeds year after year
Week of November 12th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 94, 98 to turn in next Wednesday, November 19th.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Rhizoids- small, rootlike structures that mosses and liverworts have
Rhizomes- underground steams that ferns and horsetails grow from
Horsetails- vascular plants with tall, hollow, jointed stems
Week of November 5th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 90 and 92 and the Chapter 5 Test to turn in next Wednesday, November 12th.
For the Chapter 5 Test, it will be a closed book test. After taking the test, please place the test in a sealed envelope. Numbers 30-33 in section G are bonus questions worth 3 points each. Give them a shot! I like to be generous!
Before taking the test, look over the following words: carnivore, herbivore, insectivore, omnivore, arachnid, cold-blooded, insect, centipede, crustacean, warm-blooded, an echinoderm, mollusks, sponge, annelids, arthropods, invertebrates, filter-feeders, and nematocysts. Be able to label a complete metamorphosis diagram and to know the stages of incomplete metamorphosis.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Echinoderm- has radial symmetry and tube feet
Mollusks- have a soft body and a mantle
Centipede- has many body segments and many legs
Week of October 29th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 77-78, 83 to turn in next Wednesday, November 5th.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Arachnid- an anthropod with two body segments and eight legs
Insect- has three body segments and three pairs of legs
Crustacean- an anthropod with five pairs of legs and a claw
Week of October 22nd:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 75 and the Chapter 4 Test to turn in next Wednesday, October 29th.
For the Chapter 4 Test, it will be a closed book test. After taking the test, please place the test in the sealed envelope. Numbers 21-31 in section D are bonus questions worth 3 points each. 22-24 and 25-30 will count as one question each. Give them a shot! I like to be generous!
Section E is not a bonus and is mandatory. The word bank for Section E is nucleus, vacuole, cell wall, and cytoplasm.
Before taking the test, look over the following words: cell theory, microscope, tissue, cell membrane, vacuoles, chlorophyll, cell wall, meiosis, mitosis, Robert Hooke, Carolus Linnaeus, Theodor Schwann, organism, classification, and characteristics of living things. Be able to label cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuole, and cell wall on a plant cell.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Mitosis- how organisms grow and replace cells
Meiosis- the process by which an organisms produces reproductive cells
Chlorophyll- a green pigment that absorbs energy from the sun
Week of October 15th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Students need to complete AM 66-68 to turn in next Wednesday, October 22nd.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Tissue- a group of cells working together
Vacuoles- the bubble-like storage organelles found in a cell
Mitochondria- the parts of a cell that act like engines, breaking down food and releasing energy
Week of October 8th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Student need to complete AM 58, 61-62 and the Chapter 3 Test to turn in next Monday, October 15th.
For the Chapter 3 Test, it will be a closed book test. After taking the test, please place the test in a sealed envelope. The last three questions (numbers 31-33) in section E are bonus questions worth 3 points each. Give them a shot! I like to be generous!
Before taking the test, look over the following words: aquifer, fossil fuel, ice shelf, mineral, refinery, sea ice, uranium, vein, nonrenewable, malleable metals, aluminum, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, hydrosphere, ground water, transpiration, and natural resource. Also, know the disadvantages of wind and solar energy. Know the advantages of geothermal energy.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Aquifer- layer of sand, gravel, or bedrock that holds and moves ground water
Vein- concentrated area of a specific mineral
Transpiration- when water returns to the sky from a plant
Week of October 1st:
There is no change to the syllabus. Student need to complete AM 48, 51-52 to turn in next Wednesday, October 8th.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Fossil fuel- a nonrenewable resource that is formed when remains of plants and animals are buried quickly
Uranium- a nonrenewable mineral used to produce nuclear energy
Refinery- factory that separates crude oil into different products
Week of September 24th:
There is no change to the syllabus. Student need to complete AM 45-46 and the Chapter 2 Test to turn in next Wednesday, October 1st.
For the Chapter 2 Test, it will be a closed book test. After taking the test, please place the test in a sealed envelope. You have to answer one question from the last four questions (numbers 29-32) in section D. The rest are bonus questions worth 3 points each. Give them a shot! I like to be generous! Before taking the test, look over the vocabulary words that have been posted on the board along with the following words: sand, sediment, delta, deflation, deposition, load, moraine, weathering, abrasion, bedrock, subsoil, loam, glacier, and rockslide.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Horizon- layers of soil
Texture- the amount of each kind of particle in a soil sample
Humus- decayed organic material found in soil
Week of September 17th:
We had a great class using crayons to model the rock cycle.
There is no change to the syllabus. Student need to complete AM 28, 35-36 to turn in next Wednesday, September 24th.
As a reminder: Each week, vocabulary words will be posted on the board for students to copy when they come in. Students will not always have time to finish. The words will be posted here for those who didn’t finish. These will be written on notebook paper in the vocabulary section of the binder.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Mechanical weathering- the process of breaking down rocks into smaller pieces. This includes abrasion, exfoliation, frost heaving, and pressure release.
Chemical weathering- the process of changing rocks into a different substances. This includes acid rain, carbonic acid, lichen, and oxidation.
Week of September 10th:
Volcanoes are a classic elementary science experiment, we couldn’t pass the opportunity to make some in class yesterday! The students did a great job modeling the three different types we learned about, and then we combined vinegar and baking soda for an oozing reaction.
Continue to follow the syllabus. The Chapter 1 Test will be open book. AM pages 22, 23, 24, and the Chapter 1 Test are due on September 17th.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Focus- the beginning point of an earthquake
Seismic waves- vibrations of energy that flow from the focus of an earthquake
Lava- magma that breaks through the earth’s surface
Week of September 3rd:
We had a ton of fun with faults today! Thank you for working so hard! We looked at the three types of faults using Milky Way Candy Bars. We created a foldable with definitions and our own drawings. We ended with an engineering challenge to make a structure out of noodles and marshmallows that can withstand an earthquake. The students had very creative ideas when constructing their structures!
Continue to follow the syllabus. AM pages 15-16 are due on September 10th.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Normal fault- when rocks move apart, forming a gap
Strike-slip fault- when rocks move horizontally past each other
Thrust or reverse fault- when rocks push together forcing a section of rock upward
Week of August 27th:
What a great first class! You did an awesome job finding out the strength of fettuccine noodles!
There is no change to the syllabus. Student need to complete AM 5-6 to turn in next Wednesday, September 3rd. Students will also need to have the lab safety contract signed by a parent and themselves.
We set up our binders, and some students were missing the tabs that are inserted into the dividers. Students can cut slips of printer paper if needed. The tabs should be in this order: Important, Labs, Homework, Tests, Vocabulary.
Each week, vocabulary words will be posted on the board for students to copy when they come in. Students will not always have time to finish. The words will be posted here for those who didn’t finish. These will be written on notebook paper in the vocabulary section of the binder.
The vocabulary words for the week are:
Plate tectonics-the idea that the earth’s crust is made up of moving plates
Faults- breaks in the earth’s surface along which rock can move
See you next week :)
