Week of 10-9 to 10-12

6th-We will be having our chapter 3 test, Minerals, on Thursday this week. We will be reviewing on Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for this test. We will then begin discussion of Rocks on Friday. We will also be analyzing salt crystals that we have made this week with use of microscopes. 7th-We will be having our Chapter 12 test on Wednesday of this week. The volcanoes the students made on Friday were great and they really did a nice job! Our next discussion to follow will be about Clues to Earth's past. Chapter 13 discusses fossils and relative age. 8th-On Tuesday, we will be modeling the greenhouse effect in the lab. We will then be reviewing for our Chapter 17 test on Wednesday, with our test being held Thursday. We will then begin Ocean Motion on Friday with a look at ocean currents.