Students, I really appreciate your dedication to excellence. Study this week! We are working on the final for this class. Study all past tests and the chapter highlights in your textbook. Be prepared to participate in class this week. No written homework will be assigned this week. However, you will need to complete any class assignments for homework if you are absent or fail to complete these assignments during class. Study! Study! Study! Chapter 19 Makeup test will be given after school on Thursday 5/14/09. Most students are completing independent labwork during class this week. Full lab write-ups are required.
Make sure that you complete and turn in all assignments on time or you will be referred to ZAP to make up your work. I have added the comment NTI to the grade book. This stands for an assignment that was "Not Handed In", by the student when the assignment was due and that the assignment has not been made up by the student. The grade for an "NTI" is zero, and students will be assigned to ZAP to complete the make-up work.
We will continue to use the Prentice Hall textbook in class in order to complete some of the interesting activities in this resource. Please study your textbook (Holt,)and the notes that you take in class for homework every night.
Parents, please monitor this website to help your student keep up with his/her assignments. Also, if your child is sick or misses a day of school for some other reason, then they should be able to keep up with assignments by utilizing this site. Students also need to schedule a day to stay after school to complete make-up work and tests. This is the students' and parents' responsibility! Please note: Students who are absent need to arrange to stay after school on Thursday to make up all missing quizzes and tests. All work is due the first day you return to school from an absence; three days if you have an excused absence.
STUDENTS, TAKING THE ONLINE TESTS IS A GREAT WAY TO STUDY AND TO IMPROVE YOUR GRADE; HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN NOT PASS THE TESTS IN CLASS, I WILL NOT AWARD BONUS POINTS FOR THE ONLINE TESTS! YOU NEED TO STUDY THE ANSWERS ON THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WILL BE NO BONUS POINTS AWARDED FOR ONLINE TESTS UNLESS YOU SUCCESSFULLY PASS THE TESTS IN CLASS. A B or better on the in-class test is required for you to receive bonus points for the online tests. YOU NEED TO STUDY!!!!!!!!! Use link numbers 4, and 5 to access the online tests. Bonus Points make up 25% of your class grade and are considered as class participation points.
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Remember students, 8th grade is your introduction to high school and the challenging, exciting times to come. I'm so excited and I hope that you are too. But, I think you need to study MORE!
And now, "the rest of the story!"
Students, please realiize that studying, taking notes, paying attention, and participating in class are essentials to the learning process. Focus on your work. Study and learn the vocabulary and concepts. Remember, each chapter builds on the last so you MUST LEARN the material. You must study daily! This is excellent information and preparation for high school!
But, I think you need to study MORE! Take the online tests to help you study and remember, you must make a B or better on the final chapter tests in class in order to receive bonus points for the online tests. Absent students need to make sure you complete all the classroom assignments and activities that are listed on this website. Extra credit points will come only from bonus points that you EARN for completing good, quality work that meets the standards, and from passing your tests in class. Please study and do your best work the first time.
The GPS we will be covering are listed below:
S8P5: Students will recognize characteristics of gravity, electricity, and magnetism as major kinds of forces acting in nature.
S8CS6: Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.
a. Write clear step by step instructions for conducting scientific investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure.
This week's lesson steps:
Monday 5/11/09: Safety Procedures in the Science Labs
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 19 test corrections, complete Math in Science lessons, and begin independent labwork if you passed chapter 19 test. Students who failed this test will have class assignments to complete in order to study for the final exam.
HW: Research independent lab activities to complete in class this week.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 5/4/09: Electronc Technology
Essential Questions: Students will answer the "What do you Think?" questions on page 481.
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 18 test corrections. Students will also complete chapter 19 workbook pages in order to prepare for chapter 19 test this Friday. Small groups will begin their electroncs' project which is to design new technology or improve on existing technology. Students are focusing on the characteristics of science.
HW: Study chapter 19, and complete any assignments that were not completed during class today.
Tuesday 5/5/09: Electronic Components
Essential Questions: What are semiconductors and how can their conductivity be modified? What are integrated circuits and how have they influenced electronic technology?
Class Activities: Students will complete a Quickwrite on "What is Technology and how does technology affect you?" Some Students will complete technology design projects. Students will complete chapter 19 crossword puzzle to help them learn the chapter vocabulary.
HW: Study Chapter 19.
Wednesday 5/6/09: Communication Technology
Essential Questions: What is the meaning of telecommunications? What is the difference between analog and digital signals?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class discussion of concepts in chapter 19. Students will complete chapter 19 review on pages 502, and 503.
HW: Study Chapter 19.
Thursday 5/7/09: Computers
Essential Questions: What is a computer? What is a microprocessor? Exactly what is the Internet?
Class Activities: Students will continue to work on electronics' projects and participate in review of chapter 19, for test tomorrow. Students will complete chapter 19 review questions for all sections.
HW: Study chapter 19.
Friday 5/8/09: Chapter 19 Test
HW: Complete electronics' projects, and study for final which will be given next week.
HW: Study chapter 19.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 4/27/09: Chapter 17 Test Review
Class Activities: Students will make test corrections. Students will complete electricity safety posters. Students will complete chapter 18 workbook pages to help them learn the concepts in that chapter. Students who passed their test will study and complete lab on page 695. (lemons or potatoes required)
HW: Study chapter 18. Test is Friday. Complete any assignments that you did not finish during class.
Tuesday 4/28/09: Chapter 18: Electromagnetism
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 18 vocabulary. Students will complete "A Magnetic Time", and "A Puzzling Transformation". (Handouts) Some students will complete lab on page 695, if they passed chapter 17 test and have their potatoes or lemons.
HW: Study chapter 18. Test is Friday, 5/1/09.
Wednesday 4/29/09:
Class Activities: Chapter 17 Makeup test will be given to students who missed this test last Friday. Other students will complete chapter 18 class assignments.
HW: Study chapter 18, for your test on Friday.
Thursday 4/30/09: Chapter 18 Test Rreview
Class Activities: Students will participate in review lessons for chapter 18 test. Students (who were not required to complete workbook pages) will complete chapter 18 workbook pages in class today to further assist them with understanding the concepts in this chapter. Some students will complete their Potato Power Lab on page 695, or Wooly Willy Magnetic Field Activity, or Magnetic Mystery Lab on page 698.
HW: Study chapter 18 for your test tomorrow.
Friday 5/1/09: Chapter 18 Test
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 18 test, and will complete lab activities after test.
HW: Study chapter 19.
Monday 4/20/09: CRCT Review
Tuesday 4/21/09: Chapter 17 Review
Wednesday 4/22/09: Chapter 17 Review
Thursday 4/23/09: Chapter 17 Review
Friday 4/24/09: Chapter 17 Test and Begin Chapter 18.
HW: Study Chapter 18.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/23/09: The Nature of Sound
Essential Questions: Answer "What do you Think?" questions on pages 563, and 593.
Class Activities: Students will complete drawing and labeling diagrams on pages 537 (How the Human Ear Works), 542 (The Doppler Effect), page 568 (The Electromagnetic Spectrum), and page 605 (How Your Eyes Work). Students will also complete Quick Sound Labs by rotating to the different sound stations in the class. These labs include the QuickLabs on pages 534,and 543.
HW: Study chapters 21-23, and complete diagrams that you did not finish in class. All diagrams are due tomorrow. Quiz tomorrow on the parts of the ear and how the human ear works.
Tuesday 3/24/09: How the Human Ear Works
Essential Questions: What is a wave? What is sound? What is light? What is pitch? What is a medium?
Class Activities: Students will complete Quick Sound Labs by rotating to the different sound stations in the class. Students will complete the MathBreak on page 540.
HW: Study chapters 21-23. Quiz tomorrow on the parts of the ear and how the human ear works.
Wednesday 3/25/09: The Nature of Light
Essential Questions: What is light? Why are electromagnetic waves also transverse waves? How are electromagnetic waves produced? What is infrared light?
How is the color of an object determined?
Class Activities: Students will complete quiz on the parts of the human ear and how the ear works. Students will complete CRCT group test analysis.
HW: Study chapters 21-23. Study the human eye for your quiz tomorrow.
Thursday 3/26/09: Light and Our World
Essential Questions: What do the following terms mean: luminous, illuminated, incandescent, and fluorescent.
Class Activities: Students will complete quiz on the parts of the eye and how the eye works. Students will complete the Investigate Activity on page 593. Students will review for CRCT. (Small group assessment)
HW: Study chapters 20-23. Read the chapter reviews.
Friday 3/27/09: Waves, Sound, and Light
Essential Questions: What is reflection? What is radiation? What is the electromagnetic spectrum? What is absorption? What is scattering? What is refraction? What is diffraction?
Class Activities: Students will participate in review of chapters 20-23, and take test on the vocabulary in these chapters.
HW: Study Unit 6. Complete Investigate on page 421.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/16/09: The Nature of Waves
Essential Questions: Complete "What do you Think?" on page 509.
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager by reading pages 508-519. Students will draw and label the following: Figures 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Students will complete CRCT practice on georgiaoas.org. in the computer lab.
HW: Complete Try at Home Lab on page 510. Study chapter 20. Test Friday!
Tuesday 3/17/09: Properties of Waves
Essential Questions: What is amplitude? What is wavelength? What is frequency? What is wave speed? Students will also complete the review questions on page 515.
Class Activities: Students will participate in "Doing the Wave." Students will watch Bill Nye video on waves. Students will complete mathbreak on page 513, and Interpreting graphics on page 529.
HW: Study chapter 20. Students will read and write up the lab on page 708. Make sure you copy the data table.
Wednesday 3/18/09: Wave Interactions
Essential Questions: Students will answer questions #2, and #3, on page 519; and questions #1-3, on page 525. Write the questions, use the formula for wave speed, write your answers in complete sentences, and use diagrams or examples to explain your answers.
Class Activities: Students will complete QuickLab on page 518, and the lab on page 708.
HW: Study chapter 20, and complete the review on page 528, #1-14. Write the questions and the complete word answers.
Thursday 3/19/09: Wave Speed, Frequency, and Wavelength
Essential Questions: Students will answer the Short Answer Questions on page 528.
Class Activities: Students will review for Friday's test and complete lab on page 708. Students will complete Critical Thinking Questions on page 529. Students will answer the Apply Activity on page 523.
HW: Study Chapter 20, for tomorrow's test.
Friday 3/20/09: The Nature of Sound
Essential Questions: Answer the What do you Think? questions on page 533.
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 20 test. Students will begin chapter 21 after the test.
HW: Study chapters 21, and 22.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/9/09: Forces in Fluids
Essential Questions: What is a fluid? How is fluid pressure exerted? Do moving fluids exert different forces than nonmoving fluids? What is the pascal? What is pressure? What is atmospheric pressure?
Class Activities: Chapter 6 Test! (It's BIG!)
After test, students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read chapter 7. Students need to complete the MathBreak on page 162. Students may go outside and fly thier kites or blow bubbles after the test to learn the effects of forces on fluids.
HW: Study chapters 7, and 8.
Tuesday 3/10/09: Fluids and Pressure
Essential Questions: One afternoon, you go outside to find your younger sister standing by your bicycle with a nail in her hand. The bike has a flat tire. She says all she did was take the nail out of the tire. What happened to your tire and why? What do liquids and gasses have in common? What is Pascal's Principle? What is Bernoulli's Principle? What is Archimedes' Principle?
Class Activities: Students will write a quick essay or story about how they are affected by fluid pressure on a typical day. Students should use words like weather, transportation, plumbing, breathing, bathing, playing outside, etc. Be creative. Students will complete lab to discover how atmospheric pressure allows them to drink through a straw. Goggles required.
HW: Study chapter 7. Read and write up the labs on pages 658, and 661. Be prepared to complete these lab activities after you finish all class assignments.
Wednesday 3/11/09: Atmospheric pressure
Essential Questions: How do particles in a fluid exert pressure on the container? Why are you not crushed by atmospheric pressure? Why should dams on deep lakes be thicker at the bottom than at the top? When you squeeze a balloon, where is the pressure inside the balloon increased the most? Explain your answer in terms of Pascal's principle.
Class Activities: Students will complete the MathBreak on page 170. Students will complete Ship Shape on page 171. Students will complete QuickLab on page 173.
HW: Study chapter 7. Complete Try at Home Activity on page 169.
Thursday 3/12/09: Buoyant Force
Essential Questions: What is buoyancy? Can a helium balloon keep floating forever? Explain. What happens if you put a golf ball in a glass of water? What will happen to the golf ball in a glass of salt water? Try it!
Class Activities: Students will watch Bill Nye video on buoyancy and Archimedes. Students will complete the review on page 172. Students will complete Taking Flight Lab on page 661. Students will design and make a model of a hot air balloon.
HW: Study chapters 7, and 8. Complete edheads.org online activity about simple machines. Take the georgiaoas.org science tests for CRCT practice.
Friday 3/13/09: Teachers' Planning Day
HW: Study chapters 7, and 8. Enjoy the weekend.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/2/09: SNOW DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday 3/3/09: Forces in Motion
Essential Questions: How does Newton's 2nd Law of Motion explain why it is easier to push a bicycle than it is to push a car with the same acceleration? How does Newton's 3rd Law of Motion explain how a rocket takes off?
Class Activities: Students will participate in chapter 6 review. Students need to complete the review on page 153, MathBreak on pages 149, and Math in Science on page 157. Test on chapter 6, will be given on Thursday.
HW: Complete try at Home Lab on page 166.
HW: Study chapters 6 and 7.
Wednesday 3/4/09: Forces in Fluids
Essential Questions: What is a fluid? How is fluid pressure exerted? Do moving fluids exert different forces than nonmoving fluids?
Class Activities: Students will review projectile motion lab on page 144, and Blown Away lab on page 166. Students will review Tuesday's class activities in preparation for tomorrow's test on chapter 6.
HW: Study chapter 6 for tomorrow's test.
Thursday 3/5/09: Fluids and Pressure
Essential Questions: What is the pascal? What is pressure? What is atmospheric pressure?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 6 test. Students will read chapter 7, after they complete the test.
HW: Study Chapter 7. Write up the Density Diver Lab on page 660. Bring a frisbee to class tomorrow.
Friday 3/10/09: Atmospheric pressure
Essential Questions: How do particles in a fluid exert pressure on the container? Why are you not crushed by atmospheric pressure? Why should dams on deep lakes be thicker at the bottom than at the top?
Class Activities: Students will complete the MathBreak on page 170. Students will complete QuickLab on page 173. Students will complete Density Diver lab on page 660. The weather should be nice and we may be able to go outside and experience Bernoulli's Principle.
HW: Study chapter 7.
Last week's Lesson Steps:
Monday 2/23/09: Forces in Motion
Essential Questions: How do gravity and air resistance affect the acceleration of falling objects? Why do objects in orbit appear to be weightless? How is an orbit formed? What is projectile motion? What is momentum?
Class Activities: Students will complete all labs from chapter 5. Final labwork is due on Thursday. Some students will begin the labs in chapter 6. Students should have chapter 6 labs written up if they are ready to complete these labs during class this week.
HW: Study chapter 6. Read Imagine on page 136, and complete the Investigate Activity on page 137, for extra credit.
Tuesday 2/24/09: The Rate of Falling Objects
Essential Questions: “If Wile E. Coyote and a boulder fall off a cliff at the same time, which do you think will hit the ground first?” Draw and explain your answer. Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read pages 138-142. Students will complete the MathBreak on page 139. Students will complete chapter 5, and chapter 6 lab activities.
HW: Study chapter 6. Complete handout: A Matter of Real Gravity.
Wednesday 2/25/09: Projectile Motion and Gravity
Essential Questions: Which would be affected less by air resistance: a school bus or a racing car? Explain.
Class Activities: Students will complete the QuickLab on page 144. Students will work together in small groups to answer the review questions on page 144.
HW: Study chapter 6. Look for cartoons (newspaper, magazines, or Internet) that relate to Newton's 3 Laws of Motion. Bring these in tomorrow.
Thursday 2/26/09: Newton's Laws of Motion
Essential Questions: What are Newton's 3 Laws of Motion? What is inertia?
Class Activities: Students will complete the QuickLab on page 147. Students will complete the Apply on page 146. Students will complete the MathBreak on page 149. Students will make a thinking map or other graphic organizer of Newton's Laws of Motion.
HW: Complete Using Vocabulary and Understanding Concepts on page 156. Write the Questions and the complete word answers.
Friday 2/27/09: Momentum
Essential Questions: What are the action and reaction forces involved in doing your homework? Explain your answer in detail. Which has more momentum, a mouse running at 1 m/s north or an elephant walking at 3 m/s east? Explain your answer.
Class Activities: Students will complete the lab on page 652: A Marshmallow Catapult for today's performance assessment.
HW: Study chapter 6, for next week's test.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 2/16/09: Presidents' Day
Tuesday 2/17/09: Friction
Essential Questions: What are the four forms of friction? Define them. What is a force? How are forces related to motion? How is your heart able to produce a force? Why is this force vital to life?
Class Activities: Students will present Friction 500 Lab, and read their poems or stories about friction. Students will watch the Bill Nye video on Friction. Students will review all work completed last week.
HW: Complete all missing assignments discussed during teacher/student conferences. Study lab on page 650, which you wrote up last week. We will complete this lab in class tomorrow.
Wednesday 2/18/09: The Types of Friction
Essential Questions: What are some ways to reduce friction? How can fricition be increased?
Class Activities: Students will complete the lab on page 650: Science Friction. Some students will complete the lab on page 646: Built for Speed, if they have not completed this lab already.
HW: Review speed, average speed and constant speed, and acceleration. We will complete activities related to these concepts tomorrow.
Thursday 2/19/09: Speed Graphs
Essential Questions: What is speed? What is constant speed? What would a graph of constant speed look like?
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read about speed on pages 11-22, in the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete the Journal Activity on page 11. Students will participate in the class discussion of the review activity on page 13. Students will complete the Activity by Discovering on page 19, as they calculate the average speed of a rolling marble. Students will calculate acceleration as they complete the practice problems on page 22.
HW: Study chapter 5, and Essential Questions for your quiz tomorrow.
Friday 2/20/09: Calculating Constant Speed
Essential Questions: What is acceleration? What is true about an object's velocity as it moves in a circle: is it constant or is it changing? Explain. What is momentum?
Class Activities: Students will complete Essential Questions/ Quiz. Students will complete Problem Solving Activity on page 30, of the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete chapter 5 lab activities from the Holt textbook.
HW: Study Chapter 6.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 2/9/09: Measuring Motion
Essential Questions: What is velocity? What is acceleration? What is force? What is net force?
Class Activities: Students will complete the MathBreaks on pages 109, and 113, and the Math in Science on page 133. Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read Chapter 5, pages 108-114. Students will complete review on page 114. Draw the graphs of acceleration and deceleration.
HW: Complete Friction 500 Lab on page 120. Place your labwork on a sheet of construction paper or larger poster.
Tuesday 2/10/09: Friction
Essential Questions: What is friction? What is the unit for expressing force? What are the types of friction?
Class Activities: Students will present Friction 500 Lab. Students will take a quiz on speed, velocity, and acceleration. Students will work in small groups and draw balanced and unbalanced forces. Students will work on their balloon-powered cars after all other classwork has been completed.
HW: Study chapter 5. Copy the data table on page 113, to learn about changes in acceleration and velocity.
Wednesday 2/11/09: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Essential Questions: How do you determine net force? What is the net force when you combine a force of 7 N north with a force of 5 N south? Show your work.
Class Activities: Students will complete the reviews on pages 118, 124, and 129. Students ill write up the labs: Built for Speed and Detecting Acceleration on pages 646, and 647. We will work the labs in class on Friday. Do a good job on your lab write-ups and don't forget the research. Students will watch the Bill Nye video on Friction.
HW: Find out what the gravitational force on other planets is compared with the gravitational force on Earth. (Print out a table of this information or write this information down on a sheet of paper). Study chapter 5.
Thursday 2/12/09: Gravity
Essential Questions: What is gravity? What is mass? What is the difference between weight and mass? What must you know in order to determine the gravitational force between two objects? Where would you weigh the most, on a boat, on the space shuttle, or on the moon? Explain your answer.
Class Activities: Students will complete this week's essential question quiz. Students will write a short story or make a poster about what life would be like with different gravitational forces acting on their bodies, or Students will make a diagram or poster showing the motion of the solar system using the ideas presented in the chapter, including gravity, mass, centripetal force, velocity, and acceleration. (Last night's homework is required).
Friday 2/13/09:
Essential Questions: What is the velocity of falling objects? What is air resistance? What is terminal velocity?
Class Activities: Students will complete open book test on Using Vocabulary, Understanding Concepts, and Interpreting Graphics on pages 132-133. You may bring the test in to class with you. Write the questions and the correct word answers. Students will complete the labs on page 646, and 647.
HW: Study chapters 5, and 6.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 2/2/09: Forces in Motion
Essential Questions: What is work? What is force? What is motion? What is power? What is pressure?
Class Activities: Students will complete class discussions on "Save the Cube" lab, and will complete "Feel the Heat" lab. Students will take daily quizzes this week on energy which is 40% of the CRCT.
HW: Review chapters 9, and 10. Complete writing up your labs which are due on Friday of this week.
Tuesday 2/3/09: Heat Technology
Essential Questions: How does a heat engine work? How does a refrigerator keep food cold? What is specific heat capacity? What are some effects of heat technology on the environment?
Class Activities: Students will take a quiz on energy. Students will discuss and finish their lab "Feel the Heat". Students will complete 5-Minute Manager and read pages 106-111. Students will complete Investigate on page 107.
HW: Review chapters 9, and 10. Begin studying chapter 5. Complete writing up your labs which are due on Friday of this week.
Wednesday 2/4/09: Matter in Motion
Essential Questions: What is motion? How is motion measured? How does friction affect motion? How does gravity affect objects?
Class Activities: Students will complete the MathBreak on page 109. Students will complete 5-Minute Manager and read pages 112-114. Students will complete the lab on page 647, and then students will begin making balloon powered bottle races. Weather permitting, we will race our cars outside. Bring 1-liter water bottles with caps if you have them.
HW: Review chapters 9, and 10. Complete writing up your labs which are due on Friday of this week.
Thursday 2/5/09: Measuring Motion
Essential Questions: What is acceleration? What is speed? What is velocity?
Class Activities: Students will complete essential questions' quiz. Students will complete the MathBreak on page 113. Students will complete review on page 114. Students will continue labs on page 647, and their balloon powered races.
HW: Review chapters 9, and 10. Complete writing up your labs which are due tomorrow. Chapter 10 Test is tomorrow.
Friday 2/6/09: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Essential Questions: What is a force? What is net force?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 10 test. Students will complete activities on balanced and unbalanced forces? Students will draw pictures of balanced and unbalanced forces.
HW: Study chapter 5.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/26/09: Chapter 10 Review
Essential Questions: What is work? What is energy? What is motion? What is force? What is power?
Class Activities: Students will review chapters 9, and 10 assignments which were assigned last week. All work should have been completed and turned in for grading.
HW: Study chapter 10, and complete any outstanding assignments from last week.
Tuesday 1/27/09: What is heat?
Essential Questions: What is temperature? What is heat? What is thermal energy? What is thermal equilibrium? What is a conductor? What is an insulator?
Class Activities: Students will discuss chapter 10 labs, and will work in small groups designing a protective apparatus to be used in the "Save the Cube" lab which we will complete in class tomorow.
HW: Study chapter 10, and study the "Save the Cube" lab on page 674. All chapter 10 lab write-ups were due last week, but students were given until today to make sure the assignments was turned in for final grading.
Wednesday 1/28/09: Thermal Energy and Heat Transfer
Essential Questions: What is thermal pollution? What is absolute zero?
Class Activities: Students will complete "Save the Cube" lab.
HW: Study chapter 10, and the essential questions for your quiz tomorrow.
Thursday 1/29/09: Temperature Conversions
Essential Questions: What temperature scale do Americans use? What temperature scales are used by scientists? What is the SI unit for temperature? Does temperature increase or decrease as kinectic energy decreases?
Class Activities: Students will review for chapter 10 test tomorrow. Students will work in small groups to discuss the lab "Save the Cube."
HW: Study for chapter 10 test tomorrow and complete chapter review on page 262. Write the questions and use complete sentences for your answers.
Friday 1/30/09: Changes of State and Energy
Essential Questions: What are the changes in state of matter?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 10 test and complete their work on "Save the Cube."
HW: Complete Interpreting Graphics, Critical Thinking, and Math in Science, on page 273.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/19/09: Holiday
Tuesday 1/20/09: Heat and Heat Technology
Essential Questions: Students will answer the "What do you Think?" questions on page 245.
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 9 test. After the test, students will read chapter 10, and complete the handout: "Riddle Me This", in order to learn the vocabulary in chapter 10. Make sure you read "Strange but True" on page 244. Students will complete the MathBreak on page 249. Students will complete the entire chapter 10 review on page 272. Students must write the questions and the complete answers for this assignment.
HW: Study chapter 10, and complete class assignments that were not completed in class.
Wednesday 1/21/09: Measuring Temperature
Essential Questions: What is temperature? What is heat? What is thermal energy?
Class Activities: Students will draw and label the three temperature scales on page 248, and the temperature conversion table on page 249. Students will complete the "Feel the Heat" handout provided by the teacher. Students will make a vocabulary foldable to compare/contrast heat transfers from the sun: radiation, conduction, and convection. Students must include diagrams in their foldables. Students will complete the review on page 250.
HW: Study chapter 10, and complete any assignments that were not completed in class.
Thursday 1/22/09: Heat and Thermal Energy
Essential Questions: If heat is a form of energy, what type of energy is being transferred? What is the unit used to express thermal energy? What are conductors? What are insulators?
Class Activities: Students will draw and label figure 7, on page 252, in order to understand thermal equilibrium, and figure 11, on page 255, in order to learn about the Greenhouse Effect. Students will complete the Apply on page 254. Students will read pages 256-257, and complete the MathBreak on page 257.
HW: Study chapter 10, and complete all assignments that you did not finish in class today. Make sure you turn in all of this week's assignments.
Friday 1/23/09:
Essential Questions: What is a calorie? What is the difference between heat, thermal energy, and temperature?
Class Activities: Students will complete Applying Concepts on page 259. Students will complwte the 15-Minute Manager and read pages 260-271. Students will complete Critical Thinking, Math in Science, and Interpreting Graphics on page 273. Students will read and write up the labs on pages 672, 674, and 675. We hope to complete these labs next week.
HW: Study chapter 10, for your test next Friday.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/12/09: Energy Conversions
Essential Questions: What is mechanical energy? What is perpetual motion? What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Class Activities: Students will participate in reveiw of last week's work. Students must complete and turn in Energy of a Pendulum (page 670), and At The Center of Gravity lab (PH. page 141), before they begin Eggstremely Fragile lab on page 671.
HW: Study chapter 9, and review and complete labs. Research your scientist and gather materials to begin the project in class tomorrow.
Tuesday 1/13/09: The Two Sides of Energy Resources
Essential Questions: What happens when you blow up a balloon and release it? Describe what you will see in terms of enrgy. Why is nuclear energy a nonrenewable resource? How can electrical energy be traced back to the sun? Discuss this question in detail.
Class Activities: Students will complete Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Math in Science, and Interpreting Graphics on page 241. Students will begin their "Take a Scientist to Lunch" projects.
HW: Study chapter 9, and work on projects which are due on Thursday.
Wednesday 1/14/09: Why Energy Conversions are Important
Essential Questions: What is the role of machines in energy conversions? A car that brakes suddenly comes to a screeching halt. Is the sound energy produced in this conversion a useful form of energy? Explain your answer. If the Law of Conservation of Energy is true, where does the energy go in energy conversions? State the law and explain your answer in detail.
Class Activities: Students will complete work on their "Take a Scientist to Lunch " projects which are due tomorrow.
HW: Study chapter 9, and complete your projects. Essential questions quiz is tomorrow.
Thursday 1/15/09: The Two Sides of Energy Resources
Essential Questions: What are fossil fuels? Give examples of them. What is biomass? What are some advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels?
Class Activities: Students will begin presentations of their "Take a Scientist to Lunch" projects. Students will watch and take notes on the Bill Nye video about energy.
HW: Study chapter 9.
Friday 1/16/09: Energy is Conserved Within a Closed System
Essential Questions: What is a closed system? What is perpetual motion? Why is perpetual motion impossible?
Class Activities: Students will continue presentations of their "Take a Scientist to Lunch" projects. Students are required to "take their scientists to lunch" today as today's assessment.
HW: Study chapters 9, and 10. We will have a final assessment on chapter 9, next Friday, 1/23/09. Complete your lab on Eggstemely Fragile which is due on Tuesday, 1/20/09.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/5/09: Teachers' Planning Day
Tuesday 1/6/09: Energy
Essential Questions: What is energy? What type of energy is provided by the foods that we eat? How is energy converted from one form to another? What are the five main forms of energy? Give an example of each. What is the ultimate form of energy on Earth?
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager as they read about energy on pages 107-110, in the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete Activity by Doing on page 109, of the Prentice Hall testbook in order to learn the five main forms of energy. Students will read, write up, and/or complete the Investigate activity on page 213.
HW: Read chapter 9, and finish writing up your lab which is due on Thursday. Complete Using Vocabulary on page 240. This assignment is due tomorrow.
Wednesday 1/7/09: Energy and Energy Resources
Essential Questions: What is an energy resource? What are some of Earth’s renewable resources? What is energy of motion? What is energy of position?
If a compact car and a bus are travelling at the same speed, which has more kinetic energy? Why?
Class Activities: Students will review the Investigate Activity on page 213, and finish writing up this lab which is due tomorrow. Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read pages 111-115, in the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete the Calculating Activity on page 113, of the Prentice Hall textbook.
HW: Read chapter 9, and continue writing up your lab which is due tomorrow.
Thursday 1/8/09: Energy Conversions
Essential Questions: How are energy and work related?
What is the difference between potential and kinetic energy? How is energy related to motion? How is energy related to force? How is energy related to power?
Class Activities: Students will turn in their labs on the Investigate Activity on page 213. Students will take the Essential Questions' Quiz today. Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read pages 116-123, in the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete the Activity Thinking on page 117, of the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will complete the lab activity "Crazy Eights", on page 151, of the Prentice Hall textbook. Students will bring clean and empty half-pint milk cartons back to class from lunch today.
HW: Study chapter 9, for tomorrow's Open Book Test which is the Understanding Concepts on page 240, #6-13.
Write the questions and the correct word answers. Remember, you may complete this test at home and bring it in tomorrow for me to grade. Also, remember you MUST write the questions and the correct word answers.
Friday 1/9/09: Conservation of Energy
Essential Questions: What energy conversions take place in a pendulum and how is energy conserved?
Why is perpetual motion impossible?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 9 Open Book Test on Understanding Concepts on page 240. Students will draw, label, and color figure 15, on page 223. Students will complete "Energy of a Pendulum lab on page 670.
HW: Study and write up the lab "Eggstremely Fragile" on page 671. We will complete this lab in class on Monday. Please bring in a raw egg to class on Monday to use in your lab.
Parents, please monitor this website to help your student keep up with his/her assignments. Also, if your child is sick or misses a day of school for some other reason, then they should be able to keep up with assignments by utilizing this site. Students also need to schedule a day to stay after school to complete make-up work and tests. This is the students' and parents' responsibility! Please note: Students who are absent need to arrange to stay after school on Thursday to make up all missing quizzes and tests. All work is due the first day you return to school from an absence; three days if you have an excused absence.
STUDENTS, TAKING THE ONLINE TESTS IS A GREAT WAY TO STUDY AND TO IMPROVE YOUR GRADE; HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN NOT PASS THE TESTS IN CLASS, I WILL NOT AWARD BONUS POINTS FOR THE ONLINE TESTS! YOU NEED TO STUDY THE ANSWERS ON THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE WILL BE NO BONUS POINTS AWARDED FOR ONLINE TESTS UNLESS YOU SUCCESSFULLY PASS THE TESTS IN CLASS. A B or better on the inclass test is required for you to receive bonus points for the online tests. YOU NEED TO STUDY!!!!!!!!! Use link number 4 to access the online tests. Bonus Points make up 25% of your class grade and are considered as class participation points.
Online Textbook link is www.my.hrw.com
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WE WILL CONTINUE USING METRIC MEASUREMENTS AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR, THEREFORE YOU MUST STUDY AND LEARN THIS MATERIAL!
Parents, we need your help with the following items:
Vinegar
Cornstarch
Baking Soda
Food Coloring (all colors are needed)
Playdoh (lots)
Paper Towels (numerous)
Hand Sanitizer (tons)
10 slinkys
Paper plates and cups
Plastic Spoons
Styrofoam Balls
Styrofoam Cups
String
Magnets
Sewing needles
Knitting needles
Balloons (all sizes)
Hot plates
Thermal Mitts
Small electric fans
Glass or plastic jars/ with lids (all sizes, but peanut butter and mayonaise jars are best.)
1, 2, and 3 liter bottles (clean with caps)
Students need their own goggles and magnifying lens.
Thank you to the many parents who have already sent in needed items for our labs.
Email me from this website and let me know that you were able to access it. There is a link below to the science text book and you should now know how to find your textbook and locate the current material that we are studying in class. Please study by using this website and the online tools that are available for you.
Please come to class PREPARED to learn! You MUST have all books, notebooks, notebook paper, several sharpened pencils (leave the mechanical pencils at home!), personal pencil sharpener, black or dark blue ink pens ONLY! SCHOOL IS YOUR JOB! BRING YOUR TOOLS!
In order to be a SUCCESS in this class, you must be Present, Punctual, Prepared, Positive, and Productive.
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