Welcome to Dobbins Middle School!!

Please contact me if you have any questions or need any information. The best mode of communication is via email Lsteele@paulding.k12.ga.us or Dobbins Middle school phone is 770-443-4835 and leave a message. I have daily planning from 2:05-3:35pm. 

Help sessions are available beginning August 22nd, every Wednesday morning from 7:45-8:15am and all students are welcome.

Next Science Club meeting 3/27 3:45-4:15

The Science Dept's only fundraiser for Magazines will end on Feb 11th 2013. Please support our school and helpyour child earn a Lucky Duck and a ticket to the Slam Dunk Show. Students selling 4 subscriptions have a chance to will $100 for a half court shot after the game. Thank you in advance for your participation!

The last day to ReTake the Water Test Cht 10 is Feb 13th during Help Sessions, NBI or Homeroom. Bring your test corrections(missed questions and correct answers written out 3 times) and come to improve your grade. Highest grade possible is an 80 B.


***Remember to get your Keep It Clean Sheet signed by your parent every Thursday night.

Review Vocabulary words nightly 20 minutes per day. Next Test is scheduled for March 8th. Weather Pick-Your-Project due on 3/1 & 3/8/13

Mar 1 Air massess and Fronts HW Due Parent Signature and choices for the Weather Pick-Your -Project
Feb 28 Water in the atmosphere & Precipitation
Feb 27 Local and Global Winds, Define Atmosphere cht 13Vocabulary words #25-34, Weather Pick-Your-Project rubric
Feb 26 Energy in the atmosphere & Heat Transfer, MAD 406, Define Atmosphere cht 13 voc words #15-24 
Feb 25 Layers of the atmosphere foldable - complete 10 questions due Tuesday!!! HOMEWORK

Feb 18-22 Winter Break

Feb 15 Layers of the atmosphere
Feb 14 Air Pressure Cht 13.2
Feb 13 Air around you Cht 13.1 (Last day to retake Chapter 10 exam)
Feb 12 Go over and correct Chapter 11 Test
Feb 11 Pre Test Weather and Climate 

Feb 8 Test - Chapter 11 HW: Get Progress Report signed!
Feb 7 Ocean currents & the Sun, Flotsam & Jetsam
Feb 6 Early Release - Go over answers for the study guide
Feb 5 Study Guide - test on Friday
Feb 4 Surface and Deep Currents

Feb 1 Currents & Climate
Jan 31 Currents & Climate
Jan 30 Ocean Water Chemistry
Jan 29 Tides, Copies of the water test given out to complete Re-Take assignment, Complete Tide Worksheet for Homework!
Jan 28 Go over Water Test, ReTakes during help session on Wed. Write out the questions you missed 3 times each with the correct answers. Begin Science Magazine Fundraiser 1/28-2/11/13

Jan 25 Waves 
Jan 24 Complete Vocabulary 11.1 & 11.2. Turn in missing homework & Take test if you missed last Friday (Mrs Steele will be back today)
Jan 23 Wave action Cht 11,2 Complete Classwork
Jan 22 Exploring the ocean cht 11.1 Complete classwork - to be graded (Mrs Steele will be gone to Jekyll Island until Thursday)
Jan 21 MLK Holiday

Jan 18 Chapter 10 Water in Earth's Processes Test HOMEWORK Key Terms worksheet due!
Jan 17 Go Over Diagrams figure 10, Groundwater drawing
Jan 16 Chapter 10 Review & Reinforcement & Enrichment Worksheets
Jan 15 Complete Study Guide in class for Test on Friday "Chapter 10 Water in Earth's Processes"
Jan 14 Water Underground 10.3, complete definitions for vocabulary Chapter 10

Jan 11 Surface Water chapter 10.2
Jan 10 Water on Earth Chapter 10.1
Jan 9 DBA - Distric Benchmark Assessment
Jan 8 Ocean Zones
Jan 7 Ocean Floor

Dec 20 Last Day of semester - 12/21/12 NASA - Planet alignment, Keep It Clean Celebration
Dec 19 Watch "Journey to the center of the Earth" Movie 10 facts & 10 untruths/Make up work HW - Keep It Clean sheet signature
Dec 18 Watch "Journey to the center of the Earth" Movie 10 facts & 10 untruths/Make up work
Dec 17 Correct Weathering and Erosion Test

Dec 14 Health Survey
Dec 13 Thursday Semester Final Exam for Science - Review old test and study guides!
Dec 12 EARLY RELEASE 1:30 Review for Final Exam
Dec 11 Review Plate tectonics for final exam
Dec 10 Reveiw Minerals & Rocks for Final exam

Dec 7 Weathering and Erosion Test (Study Guide maybe used if completed by the student!) 
Dec 6 Review for test
Dec 5 Complete and go over study guide for test
Dec 4 Glaciers/Study Guide for test
Dec 3 Water Erosion

Nov 30 Mass Movement
Nov 29 Quiz, Soil layers
Nov 28 Soil layers & Soil conservation, TIC TAC TOE DUE TODAY! HW Key Terms 102 due Thursday
Nov 27 Soil Formation
Nov 26 Weathering/Soil Formation

Nov 16 Soil Formation - Progress Reports go home (Please sign & return on Monday 11/26 after the break)
Nov 15 Chemical Weathering
Nov 14 Mechanical weathering HW-Weathering Tic Tac Toe Project due 11/28 in 2 weeks! 
Nov 13 Complete Plate project, Quiz Science Mini Assesssment (Review rocks and plate tectonics for quiz)
Nov 12 "How plates create" In class project

Nov 9 Earthquakes, Go over test from Nov 2, Homework Map EarthQuakes & Volcanoes #1-4, 1-4 worksheets 324-326 
Nov 8 Earthquakes & seismic waves (Substitute Teacher - Science Planning day)
Nov 7 Ring of Fire
Nov 6 Election Day Holiday
Nov 5 Earthquakes

Nov 2 Plate Tectonic Test
Nov 1 Review games, study for test, HW Continental Drift/Plate Tectonic worksheet 45/47
Oct 31 Key terms crossword puzzle
Oct 30 Seafloor Spreading & Plate Tectonics Summary
Oct 29 Plate Boundaires & Study Guide & Answers

Oct 26 Plate Boundaries
Oct 25 Plate Tectonics
Oct 24 Seafloor Spreading, voc definitions #19-23, Homework Illustrate Vocabulary words #1-23. 
Oct 23 Notes #1-8 sentences, Pangaea Puzzle Homework  due Thursday 10-24
Oct 22 Convection in the mantle, Rice Convection Lab

Oct 19 Drifting Continents, define voc words #16-19
Oct 18 Convection Currents, Layers of the Earth Project in class, Review & Reinforcement Homework worksheet due Oct 19th
vocabulary definitions #11-15 (See link for Plate Tectonics for a complete list of definitions)
Oct 17 Paulding County Benchmark Assessment
Oct 16 Heat Transfer & Convection in the mantle  
Oct 15 Layers of the Earth, redo homework if you made <70 

Oct 12 Fossils  
Oct 11 Rock Cycle/ Fossils 
Oct 10 Earth's Interior & Fossils Review & Reinforcement Homework worksheet due Oct 11th
Oct 9 Earth Interior Notes 
Oct 8 Earth's Interior Vocabulary #1-10 , (See link for Plate Tectonics for a complete list of definitions)
 
Oct 5 Complete Rock Lab / ReTest for remediation students
Oct 4 Rock Lab for enrichment/ Remediate Rocks retest on Friday October 5th
Oct 3 Rock Lab for enrichment/ Remediate Minerals retest on Friday October 5th
Oct 2 Return & Go over Mineral & Rock Test, HOMEWORK-Write out questions missed on the test with correct answers.
Requires parent signature
Oct 1 Science World articles

Sept 24-29 Fall Break

Sept 21 Layers of the Earth
Sept 20 Rock & mineral Test & Mini Assessment (Test has 30 questions 10 of them are the mini assessment) Test & Quiz grade
Sept 19 Go over Study Guide, Sedimentary Stories, Review for Test
Sept 18 Complete Rolling Through the Rock Cycle, Complete Study Guide for Test on Thursday 9/20
Sept 17 Rolling Through the Rock Cycle, Complete homework 29 Flashcards 

Sept 14 Rock Cycle HOMEWORK Due Tuesday 9/18 Vocabulary Flashcards for 29 key terms {Word on front and definition on back)
Sept 13 Metamorphic Rocks
Sept 12 Sedimentary Rocks & HOMEWORK due Thursday Sept 13 (See Rock Notes for instructions)
            Early Release 1:30pm
Sept 11 Sedimentary Rocks
Sept 10 Igneous Rocks

Sept 7 Igneous Rocks
Sept 6 Rock Cycle
Sept 5 Minerals in Georgia
Sept 4 Mineral Identification Notes
Sept 3 Holiday

Aug 31 Mining Activity
Aug 30 View Minerals ***
Aug 29 Crystal Systems
Aug 28 Mineral Density - Homework Write 8 sentences using your new vocabulary words. TAKE YOUR JOURNAL HOME!
Aug 27 Mohs Hardness Scale

Aug 24 Mineral Identification
Aug 23 Minerals
Aug 22 Matter, Atoms, Periodic table
Aug 21 Fossil Footprints Investigation
Aug 20 "The Search is On"

Aug 17 Manipulated & responding variables
Aug 16 Scientific Theory & Laws
Aug 15 Lab Safety Check Point, Scientific Method,
Aug 14 Lab Mistakes, Spongebob & Professor Picture
Aug 13 - Lab Safety pages 31-35 book

Aug 10 Lab Safety Symbol Quiz, Lab Checklist 
Aug 9 Lab Safety, "The Search is On"
Aug 8 Lab Safety make flashcards in class of safety symbols, Homework - Get Lab Safety Agreement signed by parents 
Aug 7 Scientific Method Notes, Classifying, Bioglyphs, begin using Science Composition notebooks
Aug 6 Thinking like a scientist - Homework - bring 20 flashcards for class on Wednesday

Aug 3 - Complete Rules & Procedures, Making New Friends activity
Aug 2 - Rules & Procedures
Aug 1 - First Day of school - Go over handbook. Homework get paperwork signed by parents.