8th+Grade+Science

8th Grade Science

June
 * = **Monday 5/30**

Happy Memorial Day!

No School ||= **Tuesday 5/31**

Review Sponge Bob Parts of an Experiment

Finish Typing Sixth Grade Letters ||= **Wednesday 6/1**

Study Guide for Exam

||= **Thursday 6/2**

Great America Trip ||= **Friday 6/3**

Water Splatter Testing ||
 * = **Monday 6/6**

Study Guide Work Time

Review Study Guide ||= **Tuesday 6/7**

Exam Review Game ||= **Wednesday 6/8**

1/2 Day Exams ||= **Thursday 6/9**

1/2 Day Exams ||= **Friday 6/10**

End of the Year Carnival ||

May
 * = **Monday 5/2**

Display Board Work Day

||= **Tuesday 5/3**

Display Board Work Day

After School Work Time 2:40-3:30 ||= **Wednesday 5/4**

Display Board Assembly Day ||= **Thursday 5/5**

Review for Quiz on Friday

Topics: Newton's Laws Balanced/Unbalanced Forces Net Force Motion Graphs ||= **Friday 5/6**

Motion and Force Mid-Point Quiz ||
 * = **Monday 5/9**

Review Quiz Results - Analyze Areas for Review

Balloon Car Gallery Walk

Discuss Changes to Make Before Exhibition - Displaying Beautiful Work ||= **Tuesday 5/10**

Science MAP Prep

MAP Test Goal Setting ||= **Wednesday 5/11**

Science MAP Prep ||= **Thursday 5/12**

Science MAP Test ||= **Friday 5/13**

Introduction to Projectile Motion

Video Segment

Start Simulation ||
 * = **Monday 5/16**

Complete Simulations

Discuss Results ||= **Tuesday 5/17**

Read Major Moves Article - Explore Spinning Basketball

Video Segment on Circular Motion - Myth Busters 360 degree Swing ||= **Wednesday 5/18**

Going Round and Round Exploration

||= **Thursday 5/19**

Hula Hoop Physics

||= **Friday 5/20**

Project Review ||
 * = **Monday 5/23**

Preparations for Exhibition

Final Touches to Projects - Balloon Cars - Nanotech Prezi ||= **Tuesday 5/24**

Exhibition Setup and Practice ||= **Wednesday 5/25**

Complete Calculations for Hula Hoop Physics

Discuss Results - How Do the Hula Hoop Method Change Our Data? ||= **Thursday 5/26**

Investigating Circular Motion - Outdoor Activity ||= **Friday 5/27**

Water Splatter Lab - Scientific Method Review ||

April  Review 9.1 and 9.2 Homework  Develop Experiment - Affect of Mass/Height on Speed ||= **Tuesday 4/12 ** Health Presentation for Half of Class
 * = **Monday 4/11 **

Vernier Motion Detectors - Matching Motion Graphs

Graphing Velocity and Acceleration ||= **Wednesday 4/13 ** Need for Speed Exploration (Complete First) On the Move Exploration



||= **Thursday 4/14**  Health Presentation for  Other Half of Class

Vernier Motion Detectors - Matching Motion Graphs

Graphing Velocity and Acceleration

||= **Friday 4/15**  Carryout Experiment and Complete Conclusion  Discuss Group Discoveries  Homework: Collect Materials for Balloon Cars ||
 * = **Monday 4/18**

Review Online Explorations

Analyze Data From Experiments - Discuss Writing a Quality Conclusion

Introduce Balloon Car Project ||= **Tuesday 4/19**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">Create Newton's Laws Foldable ||= **Wednesday 4/20**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> Investigate Examples of Newton's Laws

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"> Start Designing Balloon Cars

||= **Thursday 4/21**

Balloon Car Build Day

Preliminary Testing on Monday ||= **Friday 4/22**

No School ||
 * = **Monday 4/25**

Balloon Car Build Day ||= **Tuesday 4/26**

Initial Testing Day

Make Alterations Based on Test Runs ||= **Wednesday 4/27**

Official Testing Day

Recording Distance and Time

Vernier Motion Detectors

Calculating Velocity and Acceleration ||= **Thursday 4/28**

Display Board Work Day



Create a Graph ||= **Friday 4/29**

Display Board Work Day || <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">March

and Bases Exploration
 * = Monday 2/28 Review Results from Acids

Discuss Project with Fourth Grade - Brainstorm Ideas

||= **Tuesday 3/1** Start Research for Project

Research Sites: Changes in State

Chem4Kids

States of Matter

Study Jams

Heat on the Move

||= **Wednesday 3/2** Continue Project Research

Develop Project Rubric as Class

Glogster Tutorial

Must Include: - Video or Audio - Images with Explanations - Links to helpful websites - Use of Vocabulary ||= **Thursday 3/3** Project Work Day ||= **Friday 3/4** Project Work Day

Finalize Presentation Plans

Work on Glogster ||
 * = **Monday 3/7**

Glogster Work Day ||= **Tuesday 3/8**

Carbon Chemistry - Read Pages 260-263 and Complete Handout ||= **Wednesday 3/9**

Student Survey

Video on Fullerenes ||= **Thursday 3/10**

Check Homework from Tuesday

Create a Fullerene Model "Buckyballs" ||= **Friday 3/11**

Continue Creating Fullerene Model ||
 * = **Monday 3/14**

Discussion of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami - Connect to Earth Science

Nanotechnology: The Future of Fullerenes

||= **Tuesday 3/15**

Start <span class="wiki_link_ext">R esearch Nanooze NanoNews Understanding Nano

Introduction to Prezi - Sign Up and Create Practice Prezi

||= **Wednesday 3/16**

Complete Research

Quick Prezi Review ||= **Thursday 3/17**

Start Prezi Presentation

||= **Friday 3/18**

Final Work Day for Presentations

Finalize Glogsters for Fourth Grade Visit ||
 * = **Monday 3/22**

Make Up Work Day - End of 9-Weeks Friday ||= **Tuesday 3/23**

Final Day for Prezi Presentation ||= **Wednesday 3/24**

Preparations for Fourth Grade Visit ||= **Thursday 3/25**

Dress Rehearsal for Fourth Grade Visit - Visit in Afternoon ||= **Friday 3/26**

Present Prezis on Nanotechnology ||


 * February **
 * = **Monday 1/31**

Complete Color Coding the Periodic Table

Parts of the Atom - Introduction to Valence Electrons ||= **Tuesday 2/1**

Atoms and Bonding - Vocabulary and Text Questions Due Thursday

Use Bubbl.us for Vocab. ||= **Wednesday 2/2**

Snow Day ||= **Thursday 2/3**

Vocabulary Quiz over Foldable

Complete Atoms and Bonding Vocabulary and Questions Due Friday ||= **Friday 2/4**

Review Atoms and Bonding Questions

Video Segment: Lewis Structures

Add Group Numbers to Nonmetals and Metalloids -Determining Valence Electrons

Start "Atoms Unite: Let's Make a Bond" Activity || Complete Activities from Friday
 * = **Monday 2/7**

Forming Compounds Exploration ||= **Tuesday 2/8**

Video: Chemical Bonding

Start Planning for Element "Facebook" Page

||= **Wednesday 2/9**

Research and Planning for Element Pages ||= **Thursday 2/10**

Element Page Work Day ||= **Friday 2/11**

Element Page Work Day ||
 * = **Monday 2/14**

Element Page Work Day ||= **Tuesday 2/15**

Element Page Work Day - __Last Day__

After School Work Time Offered 2:40-3:30pm ||= **Wednesday 2/16**

Gallery Walk of Element Facebook Pages

Start Notes for Next Unit

||= **Thursday 2/17**

Complete Notes

Balancing Chemical Reactions Pages 198-199

Link A Link B ||= **Friday 2/18**

Gizmo Exploration - Balancing Chemical Reactions - Cut and Past Activation Code
 * H9RRPH62CC**



Bonding and Chemical Reactions Test Tuesday - Study Guide Given ||
 * = **Monday 2/21**

Complete Gizmo Exploration

Discuss Results from Exploration

Video Segment: Reacting to Chemical Changes (6:31) -

Discuss Connection to the Law of Conservation of Mass

Review Covalent and Ionic Bonding - Also Review for Test ||= **Tuesday 2/22**

Bonding and Chemical Reactions Test ||= **Wednesday 2/23**

Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions Lab - Energy Transfers



Review Indicators of a Chemical Change

Homework: Read pages 242-247 Answer Questions Page 247 Due Friday ||= **Thursday 2/24**

pH and Neutralization

||= **Friday 2/25**

Review Homework

Mixing Acids and Bases Exploration ||

January Electromagnetic Waves ||= Electromagnetic Waves and Light ||= Introduce Paper-Slide Project
 * = ** Monday 1/3 ** ||= ** Tuesday 1/4 ** ||= ** Wednesday 1/5 ** ||= ** Thursday 1/6 ** ||= **Friday** 1/7 ||
 * = Introduction of

Start Research and Planning

||= Script Writing and Slide Production ||= Final Details

Practice Day || Paper-Slide ||= __ Exhibition Planning __
 * = ** Monday 1/10 ** ||= ** Tuesday 1/11 ** ||= ** Wednesday 1/12 ** ||= ** Thursday 1/13 ** ||= ** Friday 1/14 ** ||
 * = Filming of

To Do:

Insert Paper-Slides on Weebly

Type Wind Turbine Reflections

Assemble Wind Turbine Display ||= __ Exhibition Planning __

See List from 1/11 ||= Exhibition Set-Up in Morning

Exhibition from 11:30-2:00 ||= Exhibition Reflection

Work on Exam Study Guide ||
 * = **Monday 1/17**

No School ||= **Tuesday 1/18**

Watch Paper-Slide Videos

Great America Trip Discussion and Contract ||= **Wednesday 1/19**

Work on Study Guide ||= **Thursday 1/20**

Exam ||= **Friday 1/21**

Class Does Not Meet ||
 * = **Monday 1/24**

Review Exam

What do we know about atoms?

Video Segment

Start Foldable for Vocabulary ||= **Tuesday 1/25**

The Periodic Table: What's the Trend? - Brainstorm Organization ||= **Wednesday 1/26**

The Periodic Table: What's the Trend? - Determine Organization Based on Atomic Size, Electronegativity, and Ionization Energy ||= **Thursday 1/27**

Read __Elements__ Article

Complete Foldable

Video Segments from Elements of Physics: Atoms and Molecules ||= **Friday 1/28**

Color Coding the Periodic Table ||

December Snow Day ||= ** Tuesday 12/14 **
 * = Monday 12/13

"All About Sound" Presentations - Discuss Expectations and Plan

||= ** Wednesday 12/15 **

"All About Sound" - Present to Class ||= ** Thursday 12/16 **

Electromagnetic Spectrum || ** Friday 12/17 ** Mega Party

Holiday Assembly ||
 * = ** Monday 12/6 **

Review Explorations from Friday

Vocabulary Card Check - Compile with Clips

Parts of a Wave

Waves Review Compare/Contrast

(Compare to P and S Waves in an

Earthquake) ||= ** Tuesday 12/7 **

Amplitude vs. Frequency of  Sound Waves - Pages 516-517

PhET Simulation - Sound

Handout:

||= ** Wednesday 12/8 **

Complete Sound Wave Simulation from Yesterday

Discuss Findings in Groups ||= ** Thursday 12/9 ** Period, Frequency, and Amplitude Lab

||= ** Friday 12/10 ** Complete Lab - Graph and Discuss Results ||
 * = ** Monday 11/29 **

Electricity Quiz Study Guide

Use Lab to Complete

||= ** Tuesday 11/30 **

Review Study Guide

Electricity Quiz ||= ** Wednesday 12/1 **

Review Quiz Results

Vocabulary Inventory

Wave Vocabulary Cards - Due Monday 12/6

||= ** Thursday 12/2 **

What are Waves? Read pages 510-514

Slinky Demonstration - Transverse and Longitudinal Waves - Compare/Contrast

(Compare to P and S Waves in an

Earthquake)

Exploring Sound Video ||= ** Friday 12/3 **

Sound Wave Explorations

Makin' Waves

Catch a Wave

The Speed of Sound

||
 * = ** Monday 11/22 **

Field Trip to Cook Nuclear Plant ||= ** Tuesday 11/23 **

ACT Explorer Test ||= ** Wednesday 11/24 **

1/2 Day

Cultural Awareness Assembly ||= **Thursday 11/25**

No School - Happy Thanksgiving ||= ** Friday 11/26 **

No School ||
 * = ** Monday 11/15 **

Calculating Our Potential

and Kinetic Energy ||= ** Tuesday 11/16 **

Electricity - Discovery Education Online Simulation ||= ** Wednesday 11/17 **

Discuss Simulation from Yesterday

Video on Circuits - Physical Science: The Basics Currents and Circuits (2:10)

View PhET Activity for Tomorrow

Read pages 706-711 in Textbook - Discuss Differences in Series and Parallel Circuits ||= ** Thursday 11/18 **

PhET Circuit Online Lab

- Complete Handout

Review for Electricity Mini-Quiz ||= ** Friday 11/19 ** Complete Online Activities from Tuesday andThursday

Nuclear Energy Video - Physical Energy (20:00) ||
 * = ** Monday 11/8 **

Review of Turbine Project - Journal Entry - Final Reflection

Discuss Energy Transfers - Connection to Next Unit: Electricity

Videos on Turbines and their Shape - How Could We Improve?



Review Graphic Organizer - Due Today ||= ** Tuesday 11/9 **

The Law of Conservation of Energy - Video (4:35)

Where is Energy Lost During a Transformation? - Brainstorm Examples

Read Article: Law of Conservation of Energy and

The First Law

of Thermodynamics

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Persistent Energy ||= ** Wednesday 11/10 **

Review Acceleration

Due to Gravity

The Law of Conservation of Energy[| Lab] - Calculating Kinetic and Potential Energy

Quiz Thursday Over Energy and Energy Transformations - Review Energy Packet, Energy Transformations Lab, and Wind Turbine Project ||= ** Thursday 11/11 **

1/2 Day - Conferences

Complete and Review Lab from Yesterday

<span class="wiki_link_ext">Video

Calculate Potentialand Kinetic Energy

Quiz ||= ** Friday 11/12 **

1/2 Day - Conferences

Class Does Not Meet ||
 * = ** Monday 11/1 ** Reflect on Journal Entry from Friday

Work Day forWind Turbines

Journal Entry

Homework:Read Electricity Packet - Record Five Questions Along with the Quote or Section of Text the Question References - Article ||= ** Tuesday 11/2 ** Discuss Questions from Energy Packet

Work Time forWind Turbines

Journal Entry ||= ** Wednesday 11/3 ** Video Segment on Voltage - What Does it Tell Us?

Initial Testingof Turbines

Add to Journal: How to Increasethe Voltage Produced

Homework:Complete Graphic Organizer for Electricity Article -Due Monday 11/8

Creating a

Graphic Organizer ||= ** Thursday 11/4 ** Turbine Alterations -Final Work Day

Journal Entry

Review GraphicOrganizer Homework ||= ** Friday 11/5 ** Final Testingof Turbines

||
 * = ** Monday 10/25 **

Energy Types and Transformations Packet - Due on Tuesday ||= ** Tuesday 10/26 **

Energy Transformations Video Segment

Start Energy Transformations Lab

Homework: Collect Materials for Wind Turbine Project ||= ** Wednesday 10/27 **

Complete Energy Transformations Lab

Discuss Observations from Lab

Review Energy Packets ||= ** Thursday 10/28 **

Introduction to Wind Turbine Project

How do WindTurbines Work?

Create Designs for Turbines

Start Building After Teacher Approval ||= ** Friday 10/29 **

Continue Building Turbine Blades

What's in an Electrical Motor?

Watch Electric Earth Video || Vocabulary Posters - Complete By End of Hour ||= MEAP Testing - Class Does not Meet ||= MEAP Testing - Class Does not Meet ||= Gallery Walk for Energy and Work Vocabulary Posters - ||= Finish Gallery Walk - Edmodo Response to Questions Students Still Have
 * = ** Monday 10/18 ** ||= ** Tuesday 10/19 ** ||= ** Wednesday 10/20 ** ||= ** Thursday 10/21 ** ||= ** Friday 10/22 ** ||
 * = Energy/Work

Students Complete Vocabulary Handout ||
 * = ** Monday 10/11 ** ||= ** Tuesday 10/12 ** ||= ** Wednesday 10/13 ** ||= ** Thursday 10/14 ** ||= ** Friday 10/15 ** ||
 * = Introduction to Edmodo

Students Given Login and Complete the First Post

Start Chemistry Pre-Assessment - Used to Structure Class Based on Strengths and Weaknesses ||= MEAP Testing - Class Does not Meet ||= MEAP Testing - Class Does not Meet ||= Continue Pre-Assessment

||= Review Pre-Assessmentand Discuss Strengths and Weaknesses

Students are Introduced to Learning Goals

Introduce Rube Goldberg Project || [|Glogster A][|Glogster B][|Glogster C]