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Classwork
and Homework:
Have a great summer!
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Our final
test was on June 5
The key for the study guide is here
May 29
Today, students learned about technology that
is being used in the developing countries around the world to change
lives for the better. After learning of a very simple way to
bring light into many homes using a water-filled bottle, they were to
research other examples to share with the class. The form that
they used is here.
The videos that we watched about the Light from a water bottle are here video 1 and here. video 2
Below are examples that I found that will be discussed in class.
On Thursday I will bring in one of these for students to
experience in class.
Voto is a
charger and flashlight that works by putting part of it in a fire.
Window
Socket is a solar charger that you attach to a window
Gravity
Light is a light powered by gravity, such as hanging a backpack on
it. Provides light and can charge things. Video
Eco-Cooler
is a form of air conditioner that uses no electricity or moving parts,
and no water.
LifeStraw
company site and here is a picture
in use (gross). This is about the global water crisis.
Sold here
Ocean
Wave Energy Source invented by a 9th grader
Solar
powered grill stores the Sun's energy for cooking, even at night.
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May 24
The Modern marvels that we watched on
Renewable Energy is here
May 23
We tested and modified the turbines made
yesterday.
May 22
Instructions for today's wind turbine are here
May 21
The study guide that was given out today is here
The 10 minute video on the workings of a Dutch grist mill is here
Farm Windmill operation is shown here
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May 17
Solar Tower Video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWIgwvbrcM
Short version of the Mythbusters video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkkFjSa_r84
May 16
Going outside with lenses and solar ovens
May 15
Notes are here for water wheels
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May 9 - Retest Day and Math Competition Day
Also, we watched an interesting video in preparation for our trip to
the Michigan Historical Museum about the Logging
Industry
Monster
Maker
Teacher Notes : https://askabiologist.asu.edu/build-monster
Retake for science test on Wednesday May 9
Contract for retaking the science test is here
Answer key for the test we completed is here
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Google Sheet with
Resources for Life Science 3 is here
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April 26
Test Day
April 25
Review Worksheet
Answer Key is here
April 24
Review
worksheet given in class today and is due when students show up for
class tomorrow. Students were given the whole period to work on
it and about 1/3 in each class finished it in class. The
worksheet is here.
April 23
Test on Thursday
Vocab and Review Topics sheet handed out in class is here
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M-Step testing this week
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April 13
Today we learned
about serious and also fanciful devices that use evaporation.
Notes are here S180413EvaporationDevices.pdf
The Famous Drinking Bird about $6 on Amazon
Zeer Pot evaporative cooler used widely in India - video is here
April 12
Notes are here S180412PhaseChangeTemperatureEvaporation.pdf
April 12
Today we graphed the data from our lab. Most students
turned in the lab today. If not, it is due tomorrow upon arrival
in class.
April 11
We did a lab activity where we gathered temperature data from heating a
beaker of ice water until it had boiled for 5 minutes.
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Spring Break
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March 26
There
was a presentation, with poster, about our plant growth experiment that
was assigned today. The presentation is to be done on Wednesday,
March 28.
The handout to help students organize their presentation and poster is here
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March 20
Notes from today
are here and
include conversion factors and a summary of how to approach each problem
The worksheet that students did in class is here. Students
were to finish it as homework if not done in class.
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March 16
Notes from today
are here
Students also did Reading 3.3 from IQWST
Classwork/Homework is here.
Students should have 1-7 done as they come in on Monday.
March 15
Going
over our data from activity 1.1, where students calulated how many
calories they use while exercising, we calculated how long we would
have to exercise to use calories from specific foods.
This was in Activity 3.2 in our online IQWST book.
Notes from today are here.
March 14
Molecules that
you need to look at for Reading 3.2 are
here:
Carbohydrates
Glucose -
simple sugar that you body can use easily
Sucrose -
common table sugar
Amylose - a
Starch, like in potatoes
Proteins
Amino Acids are
the basic sub-units for Proteins
Alanine - a
protein
Cysteine -
another protein
Insulin - a
complex protein that helps your body use the sugars in your blood
March
13
Today we talked about the three types of molecules found in food and
then we built a complex model of Glucose.
March 12
Catch-up day in
terms of missing papers and missing work. Students also did
detailed measurements of their plants. This was also the day we
had an assembly at the high school to see the teaser for The Sound of Music play.
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March 9
Half day for kids.
March 8
Today, students
handed in their finished population graphs. The finished version
should have looked like this.
Also, students worked on their IQWST assignment on the computers.
They did Reading 3.1
March 6
We started with a
graph that is actually a pre-test for our SLO program and it is here
After that, students started working on a challenging graph about the
populations of Hare and Lynx over a 50+ year period. Students
should use their finest graphing skills on this graph. The data
page is here
March 5
Our post lab
activity is here
and was turned in after class.
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March 2
Students watched the Modern Marvels
video "Carbon" and wrote ten things that they did not already know
and turned it in to my sub.
March 1
We did a calorimetry lab where we burned various foods to find the
number of calories in them. The lab sheet is here
Feb. 28
Notes from today
are here S180228PlantsDay2Calories.pdf
Activity 2.1 Worksheet was handed in.
IC3
Activity 2 2 Observation Worksheet - Control group.docx
IC3
Activity 2 2 Observation Worksheet - Experimental group.docx
IC3
Activity 2 2 What Do Plants Need To Grow - journal cover and
summary.docx
Feb. 23
Secret Language of
Plants
Feb. 22
Plant Experiment
Planning Sheet
Feb. 20
Notes are here S180220EnergyConversionsAndCarbide.pdf
Feb. 7
The Secret Life of 118 Green Street
The film that we watched in class is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xiZiM0_bM
Feb. 1
Notes are here S180201UV2.pdf
Jan. 31
Notes are here S180131UV2.pdf
Jan. 30
Notes are here S180130UV1.pdf
Jan. 26
Dragon Illusion
Video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K39Q9zvQoE
The models to
print are here:
Dragon Illusion Blue.pdf
Dragon Illusion Green.pdf
Dragon Illusion
Red.pdf
Cat_Illusion like dragon.jpg
Robot_Dog illusion
like dragon.jpg
Skeleton
Illusion like the dragon.pdf
Jan. 23
Start Light unit
- notes are here S180123StartLight.pdf
Jan. 22, 23 Retest
Retest for this test are on Tuesday Lunch and Wednesday before school,
lunch, and after school. The form to do this is here Retake
Notice 8th grade Earth Science.pdf
January 18 - Unit
Test
Review for the test is here
Answer key for the review is here Earth
Science 3 Final Review Answers.pdf
Jan. 16 - Go over Test Review
Jan. 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 12
Snow day
Jan. 11
Review for the test is here
Jan. 10 - Career Center Visit for 8th Grade
Jan. 9
Jan. 8 - Welcome Back
Winter Break **********************************************************
Dec. 17
We went
over the Plate Boundaries Notes sheet.
Video of the ES3 Plate
Tectonics Project is here
Instant karma video that we watched a few minutes of, is here .
Dec. 15
Plate Boundaries Notes sheet is here
Dec. 14 - Snow Day!
Dec. 11
Notes from today are here S171211BoundaryMotion.pdf
Hotspot formation video 1 (3
min) is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-Sy0y08GM
Video 2 ( 1.5 min) is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryrXAGY1dmE
Video 3 (26 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrKTuCDierM
Dec. 8
Dec. 1
Notes are here S171201ConvectionInTheEarth.pdf
Nov. 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSJNBMOjJs
Sea Floor Speading https://youtu.be/ZzvDlP6xd9o
Nov. 29
We did Activity 2.2 from
IQWST ES3 unit
Notes are here S171129Activity2-2MoreEvidenceForWegener.pdf
Alfred Wegener Song is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-cES1Ekto
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov. 20
Notes are here S171120Buoyancy1.pdf
Nov. 16
Notes are here S171116Density.pdf
Nov. 14
Notes are here S171114Density.pdf
Test
Retake Form is here Test Retake 8th
Grade Science PS.pdf
Oct. 27
The video we watched on the science
of carnival games is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_ZlWJ3qJI
Pool full of Orbeez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFVXsnq230c
Snowball Machine Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JinpVA6p8Mo
Test on Thursday, Oct. 26
Test review is here PS test Review IQWST.pdf
Answers to the test review are here Review
answers.pdf
Topic words are here Science Vocabulary.pdf
Oct. 19
Notes are here S171019GraphingMotion.pdf
Oct. 18
Notes are here S171018FequalsMA2.pdf
Oct. 16
Notes are here S171016FrictionFequalsMA.pdf
Oct. 12
Notes from today are here S171012Acceleration.pdf
Oct. 11
Students worked on Reading
4.3 from our online textbook.
Oct. 10
The class watched a video on hovercrafts here
Oct. 9
Today students rode the hovercraft as part of our study of
friction.
Oct. 6
Notes are here S171006Friction2.pdf
Oct. 5
Notes are here S171005Friction.pdf
Sept. 28
Notes are here S170928GraphSetup.pdf
Sept. 26
Notes are here S170926Graphing2.pdf
Sept. 25
Notes are here S170925Elasticity.pdf
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Sept. 20
Notes are here S170920ForcePairModels.pdf
Sept. 18
Notes for today are here S170918ContactAndDistantForces.pdf
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Sept. 15
Notes from today are here S170915ForcePairs.pdf
Sept. 14
We did activity 2.1 where students observed an apparatus and
made notes. We are working toward identifying force pairs in
systems. Activity 2_1
worksheet.pdf
Sept. 13
Notes from today are here
S170913aVernier
Caliper.pdf
Links
(external):
http://www.sonicspot.com/wavetools/wavetools.html
Talking
Tapes
Electronics Tutorials at www.electronics-tutorials.ws
Science Toys
you can make
Inventor's
Handbook
The
Secret
Life of Machines Homepage
Invisible
Inks
Bad
Movie Physics
How
everyday
things are made
Earth
Science
Links
Edible
Science
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/index.html
http://www.martindalecenter.com/
This is the reference site for just
about EVERYTHING
Bad
Science
Rube
Goldberg
Ripcord's
Trebuchet Stuff
Trebuchet
Challenge
Game
Science Toys
you can make
Audio
and 3-D Sound
Electromagnets
Gauss
Rifle
Home-made
Van De Graff
Electrical?
Pop
Pop Boats
Nuclear
Power Plant Simulation
Toys made
from junk
(in India)
Huge
Site with
lots of links where you can build cool stuff for science
http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/
Science
Supplies and Cool Toys
to Buy
Archie McFee
- Strange Toys and
gags
Educational
Innovations
- A great science and science toy source
Arbor Scientific
- one of my
favorite science supply sites
Edmund
Scientifics -
a great,older company with lots of optics and new lines of stuff
I have not purchased from these sellers but they look
interesting.
Smoke
Ring "Mighty Blaster"
Explore4fun
Science Toy
catalog
Geek Toys
- for home and
office
Electromagnetic
Toys
