**Students who are taking the science final should be reviewing their notes daily on their own and using the review packet which will be given out on 6/13/08. Those students who meet the criteria for exemptins will be given a letter to take home to parents on 6/13/08
Science 8B Homework
Monday 6/9/08: None
Tuesday 6/10/08: Per.6 only: Do last page of #93
Wednesday 6/11/08: None
Thursday 6/12/708: None
Friday 6/13/08: NOne
NO more HW for rest of the year. Stduy the review packet given to you for the final exam on Friday 6/20/08.
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PARENTS:For the benefit of helping keep students current on their science notebook, I will be posting the required handouts and their assigned number below. You can see if your child is missing any handouts simply by looking at their notebook and comparing it to this list.
Handout # and Title:
First page in binder: Table of Contents
#1 Students/parent/Guardian Reference Sheet
#2 Line Graphing
#3 Oh Deer, Here Come the Wolves!
#4 Lab Safety Packet
#5 Comic Strip on Lab Safety
#6 Are Experimental Set-ups really that Important?
#7 Mass Sheet
#8 Review for 8th Grade Science test
#9 Common Prefixes and Suffixes
#10 Controlling Variables
#11 Obsrvations vs. Inferences
#12 Notes: Scientific Method
#13 Chapter 1: Life Processes
#14 Clues to Redwoods Mighty Growth Emerge in Fog
#15 Why Leaves Change Color
#16 Photosynthesis Formula
#17 The World's Oceans
#18 The Ocean Floor
#19 What is the Hydrosphere?
#20 Why are the Oceans Important?
#21 Wind Packet
#22 What is Weather?
#23 Air Pressure and the 4 Layers of the Earth's Atmosphere
#24 How are winds named?
#25 What are Shore Breezes?
#26 Heat Bands
#27 How do clouds form?
#28 Precipitation and Clouds
#29 What is Pressure?
#30 What 3 factors cause air pressure to change?
#31 What is wind?
#32 Air Masses
#33 Hurricanes/Tornadoes
#34 What are stars like?
#35 Nutrients and Human Nutrition
#36 Releasing the Energy in Food
#37 A Tale of Stormy Seas
#38 The Digestive System and Gutless Gary
#39 Common Prefixes and Suffixes
#40 The Respiratory System and Respiratory Rita
#41 Taking in Oxygen from the Air
#42 Watching for the warning signs of an invisible killer
#43 Secrets of Safer Sunning
#44 Indoor Shooters Look out for the Lead!
#45 Lyme Disease Article
#46 Animal Cell/Plant Cell
#47 Hamster Article
#48 What is Binary Fission? What is Budding?
#49 What is Mitosis?
#50 What are Chromosomes?
#51 What are Dominant and Recessive Chromosomes?
#52 Genes and Traits
#53 How can we Predict Heredity?
#54 Is there a black sheep in the family?
#55 Bikini Bottom Genetics
#56 Pedigree for Nearsightedness
#57 How is sex (gender) determined?
#58 What is Incomplete Dominance?
#59 Sponge Bob's Incomplete Dominance
#60 Sex-linked Traits
#61 Blood Type Notes
@63 Matter, Matter Everywhere
#63 Gases, liquids and solids
#64 Chemical and Physical Changes Class Notes
#65 Solubility Factors
#66 About Atoms
#67 Periodic Table
#68 Atomic Number Intro.
#69 How does heat move through solids?
#70 What parts make up an atom?
#71 Neon Lights and other Gases that glow
#72 3-D Atom Models
#73 Formulas and compounds
#74 How does heat move through liquids and gases
#75 Energy
#76 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
#77 What is Static Electricity?
#78 What is current Electricity?
#79 What is a series circuit?
#80 What is a parallel circuit?
#81 How does light reflect?
#82 Color and Light and Articles of Interest
#83 What is the Visible Spectrum?
#84 How does Sound Travel?
#85 What is refraction?
#86 Common Prefixes and Suffixes
#87 Magnets: What do the pictures show?
#88 What changes take place when a substance becomes a magnet?
#89 How can you make a magnet by induction?
#90 What is a force?
#91 How can you move something with less force?
#92 What is work?
#93 Inclined Plane
#94 The Power of Pulleys
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See student's binder for all classroom policies. Below are some of the policies in brief.
Visually checked homework receives 1 of 3 grades depending upon completness:
100% Fully Complete Assignment 100%
99-50% done 50%
Less than 50% done 0%
Homework is due 24 hours after it is assigned in class when I come around to check or collect it. No late homework is accepted for credit. No locker passes.
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All students are responsible for acquiring any free-hand class notes from a classmate on days of absence.
Students will find missed homework and worksheets the day of their absence in the absent folder bin within the classroom. Students are to complete the missed assignments and submit them within 5 school days for credit. Failure to do so results in a zero.
Students will not be reminded about missed work. It is their responsibility to pick up their own missed sheets and submit them to me completed within 5 school days for credit. Students need to become proficient in knowing how to pick up where they left off and following through on their academics.
As the teacher, I will approach students who need to make up missed quizzes and tests to ensure these are not missed.
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Eigth grade students in the past have commented on the increased responsibility placed upon them at this grade level.
We as an 8th grade team are preparing you son and daughter to practice and acquire the necessary skills they need in order to be sucessful in high school, only 1 short year away.
Encouragement, reviewing class material with your son and daughter, requiring to see their tests and quizzes allows you to take an active role in your child's education.
As the teacher, you will receive comments on how your child is doing in my room at the 5 week mark of each quarter (sent by the school along with comments on your child's other classes) and at the ten week mark (on the student's report cards).
If you'd like to know your child's average/behavior/homework habits/etc. outside of the above timeframe, please call or e-mail me using the link on this site or at dtremblay@gasd.org and make me aware of your interest. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Miss Tremblay
P.S.
The necessities for this 8th grade science class (Team 8B) include pens/pencils, loose leaf paper and a thick 2" or larger 3-ring binder to be used as your science notebook.
Your science notebook will be of extreme importance to you this coming year and I will guide you as to what notes and worksheets will be included in it. Your science notebook will serve as your main study guide for this course and it is up to every student to keep it updated and organized.
This site will post homework on a daily basis. Students will be given the class policies during the first few days of school and will be asked to share these forms with parents so everyone is aware of class expectations.
The purpose of this site is not to replace the recording of daily assignments done by students within class, but to rather serve as a tool for those students who are absent, leave school early, etc. as well as a place for parents to contact me via e-mail.
As an educator who fully realizes that parents have a great interest in what their child is learning, this site is also here to invite parents to view current assignments and to serve as a link to contact me by way of e-mail.
Sincerely,
Miss Tremblay
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