Students: Chapter 19 test is scheduled for Monday, April 26th. YOU REALLY NEED TO STUDY DAILY! STUDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you for maintaining Decorum each day. This is the final 9 weeks of your middle school years and you should be NOW READY FOR HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!
4th 9 weeks' Grading Policy: Tests and Quizzes 50%; Classwork and Labs 40%, HW 10%. Remember: Late Work will not be accepted unless you have an excused absence.
Parents, we need paper towels and kleenex.
All students have been issued a science textbook and they should study it every night. Students also need their own goggles for lab activities.
Here is the information for accessing the online textbook: The book is linked below as Online textbook. NOTE: Students have to click on the link below and create their own username and password. The access code needed to register is PHSCBN09GAEN08T. Please try this and let me know if you still have problems using the online textbook.
www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
Access Code: PHSCBN09GAEN08T
Absent students with excused absences have three days to complete and turn in all missed assignments including classwork and homework. Please utilize the website to keep up with your work. Assignments are listed on this website in great detail so you should have no problems completing your missed assignments. You may get a handout from me upon your return to class if the assignment was a handout of some kind. Students will need to make up all tests, quizzes, and labs after school. This type of assignment must be made up within the approved three days for excused abscences also.
ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE GOGGLES OR SAFETY GLASSES FOR LABS!
S8P5: Students will recognize characteristics of gravity, electricity, and magnetism as major kinds of forces acting in nature.
c. Investigate and explain that electric currents and magnets can exert force on each other.
This week's lesson steps:
Monda 4/19/10: CRCT Review
Tuesday 4/20/10: Magnetism Review
Wednesday 4/21/10: Chapter 19 Review
Thursday 4/22/10: Chapter 19 Review
Friday 4/23/10: Chapter 19 Review:
Essential Questions: What are the properties of magnets? How does an electric current produce magnetism? How does magnetism produce electricity?
Class Activities: Students will complete handouts on magnetism to help them prepare for Monday's test.
HW: Study chapter 19 for your test on Monday.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/29/10: Reflected and Refracted Lenses
Essential Questions: Students will answer questions in chapter 18 workbook.
Class Activities: Students will participate in class review and discussion of the concepts in chapter 18 in preparation for tomorrow's test.
HW: Study chapter 18, and complete chapter 18 workbook pages if you did not finish them in class.
Tuesday 3/30/10: What is Magnetism
Essential Questions: What is a magnet? What is magnetism? Where is the magnetic force of a magnet strongest? What is a magnetic field? What is a magnetic force?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 18 final assessment and begin the study of magnetism in chapter 19. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 656.
HW: Study chapter 19. Also review Unit 3 for this test which will be given on Friday.
Wednesday 3/31/10: Magnetic Attraction
Essential Questions: What happens when two south poles are brought near each other? What happens when a north pole is brought near a south pole? What happens when two north poles are brought near each other?
Class Activities: Students will complete open book test on chapter 19.
HW: Study chapter 19, and Unit 3 review.
Thursday 4/1/10: Magnetic Interactions
Essential Questions: What are the properties of a magnet? How do magnetic poles interact? What is the shape of a magnetic field? What will happen to a bar magnet that is allowed to swing freely?
Class Activities: Students will complete Go Online Active Art activities in chapter 19.
HW: Study Unit 3 for your test tomorrow.
Friday 4/2/10: What's Inside a Magnet?
Essential Questions: How can an atom behave like a magnet? How are magnetic domains arranged in a magnetic material? How can a magnet be charged?
Class Activities: Students will complete Unit 3 Final Assessment and continue with the study of magnetism.
HW: Enjoy your Spring BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/22/10: Wave Model and Particle Model of Electromagnetic Waves
Essential Questions: How could you model the wave behavior of an electromagnetic wave? How could you model the particle behavior of an electromagnetic wave? Whch model helps explain how light can knock electrons out of some substances when it strikes them? Explain.
Class Activities: Students will complete the MAP Test and review for chapter 17 test which is scheduled for tomorrow.
HW: Study for chapter 17 test.
Tuesday 3/23/10: Light and Color
Essential Questions: What happens to the light that strikes an object? What determines the color of an opaques, transparent, or translucent object? Which type of material is water? How is mixing pigments different from mixing colors of light?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 17 final assessment and begin studying the concepts in chapter 18. Students will participate in class discussion of chapter 18. Students will watch and take notes on Bill Nye video: LIGHT!
HW: Study chapter 18.
Wednesday 3/24/10: The Color of Objects
Essential Questions: What color of light is reflected by a red apple? What three things may happen to the light that strikes an object? Define them. What determines the color of an opaque object? What are the primary colors of light? What are the primary colors of pigments?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 610. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 613. Students will participate in class discussion of chapter 18. Students will complete science OAS tests. Each test will count as a grade on your progress report.
HW: Study chapter 18. Draw, label, and color figures 8, 9, 11, and 12 in chapter 18.
Thursday 3/25/10: Reflection and Mirrors
Essential Questions: What are the kinds of reflection? Draw them and explain them. What types of images are produced by plane, concave, and convex mirrors? What is a real image? What are two kinds of reflection?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 617. Students will complete Drawing a Ray Diagram (figure 10), on page 620. Students will complete lab activity Modeling Reflection from a Concave Mirror. Students will complete science OAS tests. Each test will count as a grade on your progress report.
HW: Study chapter 18.
Friday 3/26/10: Refraction and Lenses
Essential Questions: What is refraction? Why do light rays bend when they enter a medium at an angle? What determines the types of images formed by convex and concave lenses?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 18 vocabulary quiz. Students will complete MAth Analyzing Data on page 624. Students will complete science OAS tests. Each test will count as a grade on your progress report.
HW: Study chapter 18.
Last week's Leson Steps:
Monday 3/15/10: No School
Tuesday 3/16/10: The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
Essential Questions: a. What is an electromagnetic wave? b. What is the electromagnetic spectrum? c. What do electromagnetic waves consist of? d. What is the type of energy that is transferred by an electomagnetic wave? e. How do electromagnetic waves travel?
Class Activities: Make sure you have completed your diagrams of figures 3, and 8, in chapter 17, which are due today. Students will complete chapter 17 vocabulary. Students will complete chapter 17 review on page 605. Draw and label the concept map, and write the questions and the correct word answers. Students will draw, label, and color figure 9, on page 589, figures 10 and 11, on page 590, and figure 12, on page 591. These are the five types of lights and students must learn the differences among them.
HW: Study chapter 17. Read Section 1, and complete workbook pages 229-234.
Wednesday 3/17/10: Waves of the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Essential Questions: How are electromagnetic waves alike and how are they different? What waves make up the electromagnetic spectrum? Which electromagnetic waves have the longest wavelengths? Which have the shortest wavelengths? What is the formula for wave speed? Based on the formula, as the frequency of electromagnetic waves increases, how must their wavelength change? Why?
Class Activities: Students will participate in lecture and class discussion of the concepts in chapter 17. Students will make a quiz game on the electromagnetic spectrum by organizing the information into a series of pertinent questions. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 574 and/or the Lab Zone on page 580.
HW: Study chapter 17, and complete Math Skills on page 582.
Thursday 3/18/10: Producing Visible Light
Essential Questions: What is the mathematical relationship among wavelength, frequency, and speed? Why are some electromagnetic waves harmful to you but others are not? Can you name the electromagnetic waves in order from lowest to highest frequencies? Name them. How are gamma waves produced? What is visible light? What are five common types of light bulbs?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class lecture and discussion of chapter 17 concepts. Students will complete Math Practice on page 585. Students will complete complete Discover Activity on page 588. Students will make a graphic organizer to compare and contrast fluorescent lights, vapor lights, and neon lights. Compare and contrast how these lights produce visible light and how efficient they are.
HW: Study chapter 17. Extra credit: Complete the At-Home Activity on page 591. Make a data table of your research.
Friday 3/19/10: Wireless Communication
Essential Questions: What type of wave carries signals for radio and television programs? How do communication satellites work? How are AM waves different from FM waves? How are they the same? How does your cellular telephone work?
Class Activities: Students will participate in chapter 17 class discussion. Students will complete Math Practice and Applying Concepts on page 606. Students will complete CRCT practice on page 607.
HW: Study chapter 17 for your test on Tuesday, March 23rd.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 3/8/10: Properties of Sound
Essential Questions: What are the properties of Sound? How would you define the amplitude of a vibration? What affect will changing the amplitude have on the sound?
Class Activities: Students will review and correct chapter 15 test and vocabulary quiz. These concepts are important as they are discussed in every chapter of Unit 3. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 543. Students will continue to write up the Sound Lab Investigations which we started on Friday.
HW: Study chapter 16 and draw, label, and color the Ear diagram on page 559.
Tuesday 3/9/10: Properties of Sound Continued
Essential Questions: What is pitch? What is amplitude? What is frequency?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class discussion and take notes on the properties of sound. (Workbooks required). Students will complete Sound Labs related to the properties of sound.
HW: Study chapter 16. Complete At-Home Lab on page 551.
Wednesday 3/10/10: How You Hear Sound
Essential Questions: What is the function of each section of the ear? What causes hearing loss? What are the three main sections of the ear? What happens to a sound wave when it enters the ear canal? How are sound waves transmitted through the middle ear?
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read Section 4, and complete the Section 4 Assessment. Students will turn in and review the homework on page 551: Hum Stopper. Students may recreate the lab in class also. Students should complete Sound Lab Investigations in their small groups. Students will complete the chapter 16 review on page 569. Draw and label the Concept Map and write and answer the Reviewing Key Terms Questions. Students will complete Interpreting Graphics on page 599 in the Holt Textbooks which are on their desks.
HW: Study Chapter 16 for your test Friday.
Thursday 3/11/10: The Doppler Effect
Essential Questions: What is the Doppler Effect? What causes the Doppler Effect? What is a shock wave? What causes a shock wave?
Class Activities: Students will draw, label, and color figure 12 on page 550. Students will complete the handout on the Doppler Effect which is on the teacher's workstation. Students will complete Thinking Critically Questions on page 570. Students will complete chapter 16 workbook pages.
HW: Complete chapter 16 workbook pages to help you study for tomorrow's test.
Friday 3/12/10: Using Sound in Our Everyday Experiences
Essential Questions: How do we hear sound? How does the human ear work?
Class Activities: Students will review and then complete chapter 16 test. Students will begin class performances of sound waves buy playing their musical instruments.
HW: Study chapter 17. Draw, label, and color figures 3, and 8 in chapter 17. Study for the Ear test which will be given on Tuesday 3/16/10.
Last week's lesson steps: (3/1-3/5)
Monday 3/1/10: Waves
Essential Questions: What are waves? How do waves travel? What causes waves? What are two types of waves and how are they classified? What do waves transfer?
Class Activities: Students will complete Unit 2 Final Assessment. Students will begin the study of waves in chapter 15 after the test has been completed. Students will draw and label the wave diagrams in figures 1-4, on pages 511-514. Students will complete chapter 15 review on page 535. Write the questions and the correct word answers. Draw and label the concept map also.
HW: Study chapter 15, and answer the following question in essay form: "Why did the larger earthquake that occured this weekend in Chile cause less damage and loss of lives than the earthquake that happened in Haiti a few months ago?"
Complete chapter 15 vocabulary on page 212 in your workbooks. Bring your workbooks to class every day this week.
Tuesday 3/2/10: Properties of Waves
Essential Questions: What are the basic properties of waves? Name, define, and explain the properties. How is a wave's speed related to its wavelength and frequency? What is a tsunami?
Class Activities: Students will take notes and participate in class discussion of waves and the properties of waves. Students will complete Math Practice on page 519. Students will complete Wavy Motions lab on page 520.
HW: Complete the Discover Activity on page 510, as a full lab. Complete the Writing in Science Assessment on page 514. Write the question and write at least one full paragraph to explain your response. Read the question carefully and use scientifc terminology in your response.
Wednesday 3/3/10: Wave Interactions
Essential Questions: How do reflection, refraction, and diffraction change a wave's direction? What is reflection? What is refraction? What is diffraction? What is absorption? What are the different types of interference? How do standing waves form?
Class Activities: Students will take notes and participate in class discussion of waves and wave interactions. Students will complete Chapter 15 vocabulary quiz.
HW: Complete the Discover Activity on page 521, as a full lab. Complete The Lab Zone on page 523.
Thursday 3/4/10: Seismic Waves
Essential Questions: What are the types of seismic waves? How does a seismograph work?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 530. Students will complete MAth Analyzing Data on page 532. Students will participate in class review of chapter 15 for test tomorrow.
HW: Study chapter 15 for your test tomorrow.
Friday 3/5/10: The Nature of Sound
Essential Questions: What is sound? How do sound waves interact? What factors affect the speed of sound?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 15 test and begin the study of Sound.
HW: Study chapter 16.
Last week's lesson steps: (2/22-2/26)
Monday 2/22/10: Energy
Essential Questions: What is energy? What are the two general forms of mechanical energy? What is the formula for power in terms of energy?
Class Activities: Students will participate in class discussion and take notes on chapter 13.
Students will complete Discover Activity on page 442. Students will complete Math Skills on page 444, and Math Practice on page 445.
Homework: Study chapter 13, and complete workbook pages 182-184.
Tuesday 2/23/10: Forms of Energy
Essential Questions: What makes a flashlight shine? What is the form of energy associated with the position and motion of an object? How is an object's mechanical energy determined? What are some forms of energy associated with the particles that make up objects?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 447. Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 449. Students will complete Section 2 Assessment on page 451. Write the questions and use complete, detailed sentences for your responses. Complete the Writing in Science Activity on a separate sheet of paper.
HW: Study chapter 13.
Wednesday 2/24/10: Energy Transformations and Conservation
Essential Questions: How are different forms of energy related? What is a common energy transformation? What is the law of conservation of energy? What happens to the chemical energy in the food you eat?
Class Activities: Students will complete Discover Activity on page 454. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 455.
HW: Study chapter 13, and complete the Lab Zone on page 459.
Thursday 2/25/10: Energy and Fossil Fuels
Essential Questions: What is the source of energy stored in fossil fuels? How is energy transformed when fossil fuels are used? Do fossil fuels have potential or kinetic energy? Explain your answer Why is coal usually found underground? What are the types of fossil fuels? What is a fuel?
Class Activities: Students will draw and label figures 12 on page 456. Students will draw figure 18 on page 464. Students will complete Lab Zone Skills Activity on page 464. Students will complete Section 4 Assessment on page 465. Students will complete chapter 13 review on page 467. Draw and label the Concept Map and write the questions and complete word answers for Reviewing Key Terms.
HW: Study chapter 13, and write up the lab: Soaring Straws in page 460. Make sure you draw the data table as part of the lab write-up. We will complete this lab in class on Friday. Remember: Complete any work that you failed to finish in class today as homework and be prepared to turn it in tomorrow.
Friday 2/26/10: Thermal Energy and Heat
Essential Questions: How is heat transferred? What are conduction, convections, and radiation? What is specific heat? What is a heat engine? What is a refrigerant?
Class Activities: Students will complete Soaring Straws lab and participate in class discussion of Unit 2.
Homework: Study for Unit 2 test which will be given on Monday.
Last week's lesson steps: (2/15-2/19)
Monday 2/15/10: Holiday
Tuesday 2/16/10: Work and Machines
Essential Questions: What is the difference between the everyday meaning of work and the scientific meaning of work? Make two lists. One list will contain examples being done on objects, using the correct scientific interpretation of the term work. The other list will contain situations that are called work in the everyday sense, but not in the scientific sense.
Class Activities: Students will participate in the class discussion of chapter 12 concepts. Students will complete class lab on simple machines.
HW: Study chapter 12.
Wednesday 2/17/10: How machines do work?
Essential Questions: How can you decide if certain objects are machines and other objects are not? What is input force? What is output force? What is input work? What is output work? What is mechanical advantage? What is efficiency?
Class Activities: Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 417. Students will complete Math Practice on pages 418-419. Students will complete lab activities on simple machines. Students will watch and take notes on Bill Nye video on Simple Machines.
HW: Study chapter 12. Complete chapter 12 review on page 437. Write the questions and the complete word answers.
Thursday 2/18/10: Simple Machines
Essential Questions: How can you increase force? What are the three classes of levers? What is a compound machine?
Class Activities: Students will complete Lab Zone on page 430. Students will participate in chapter 12 review for tomorrow's test.
HW: Study chapter 12. Complete At-Home Lab on page 433.
Friday 2/19/10: Simple Machines in the Body
Essential Questions: What are living levers? What are working wedges? What is a bicycle?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 12 test and begin chapter 13.
HW: Study chapter 13.
Last week's lesson steps: (2/8-2/12)
Monday 2/8/10: Work and Machines
Essential Questions: What is work? What is Power? What is Energy? What is the SI unit for work? What is the SI unit for power? What is the SI unit for energy?
Class Activities: Students will preview chapter 12 and participate in class discussion of the concepts in this chapter. Students will complete and discuss Math Practice on pages 410 and 411. Students will begin lab activities on pages 406, 409, and 414.
HW: Study chapter 12. 3rd block will also look up Rube Goldberg and print some interesting facts about him that are relevant to our chapter.
Tuesday 2/9/10: What is Work?
Essential Questions: What happens when you pull at an angle? If you pull an object horizontally, what part of your force does work? Is work done on a stack of newspapers if you lift them from the floor to a table? Is work done on a stack of newspapers if you hold them in front of you and carry them across the floor at a constant velocity? Explain your answers.
Class Activities: Students will continue with lab investigations from Monday.
HW: Study chapter 12. Bring your legos or other building materials. 4th block will look up Rube Goldberg and print off information about him.
Wednesday 2/10/10: Work in the Scientific Sense
Essential Questions: How do you determine the amount of work done on an object? What is the SI unit for work? What quantities must you measure to find the power of an elevator that travels to the top of a tall building? Using figures 2, 3, and 4, write and answer the questions that accompany these figures.
Class Activities: Students will participate in individual or small group lab activities to build and demonstrate simple machines.
HW: Study chapter 12.
Thursday 2/11/10: Winter Break
HW: Study chapter 12.
Friday 2/12/10: Winter Break
HW: Study chapter 12.
Last week's lesson steps: (2/1-2/5)
Monday 2/1/10: Forces in Fluids
Essential Questions: What is buoyant force? What is Archimedes' Principle? What is density?
What is Pascal's Principle? What is a Pascal? If an astronaut is in free fall, he appears to be what? What is a hydraulic system? How does a hydraulic system work?
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read pages 388-392. Students will complete section 3 assessment on page 392. Students will watch Bill Nye video on buoyancy and complete class quiz on the video. Students will complete chapter 11 review on page 401. Draw and complete the flowchart and write the questions and complete word answers.
HW: Study chapter 11 for the test this Friday.
Tuesday 2/2/10: Pascal's and Bernoulli's Principles
Essential Questions: What is Pascal's Principle? What does Pascal's Principle say about change in fluid pressure? What is a hydraulic system? How does a hydraulic system work? What is Bernoulli's Principle? Does the movement of air affect pressure? Bernoulli's is a factor that explains what four things?
Class Activities: Students will complete Math Analyzing Data on page 391. Draw the graph and write the questions. Students will complete the Discover Activities on pages 388, and 393. Students will complete the Lab Zone on page 394.
HW: Study chapter 11, and complete the At-Home Activity on page 397. Write this activity up as a ful lab and include digrams in your work.
Wednesday 2/3/10: Technology and Society
Essential Questions: How does Bernoulli's Principle relate to the rotating blades of a helicopter? How does Bernoulli's Principle explain how a drinking straw works?
Class Activities: Students will participate in chapter 11 test review.
HW: Study chapter 11 for your test on Friday.
Thursday 2/4/10: Chapter 11 Review: The Big Idea
Essential Questions: What happens to pressure if the same force is exerted over a smaller area? Why does pressure change with elevation and depth? How much greater is water pressure at a depth of 6,500 meters that it is at sea level?
Class Activities: Students will complete Writing in Science on page 392. Students will read Technology and Society on pages 398-399, and answer question #1 on page 399. Students will complete the handouts provided by the teacher.
HW:Study for chapter 11 test which will be given tomorrow.
Friday 2/5/10: Work and Machines
Essential Questions: What is work? When is work done on an object? How do you determine the work done on an object? What is power? What is a joule?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 11 test and complete chapter 12 workbook pages after they have finished the test. Students will complete MAth Practice on page 410.
HW: Study chapter 12, and complete workbook pages that you did not finish in class. All workbooks are due on Monday 2/8/10.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/25/10: Forces in Fluids
Essential Questions: What is a fluid? What is Pressure? What is a Pascal? What is Pascal's Principle?
Class Activities: Students will take chapter 10 test. After the test, students will complete chapter 11 workbook pages 151-156. If you have lost your workbook, you need to complete the section assessments in chapter 11. Students will complete MAth Skills on page 373.
HW: Study chapter 11. Make sure you know the answers to the Key Concept Questions on page 372 for your quiz tomorrow.
Tuesday 1/26/10: Pressure
Essential Questions: What is the formula for calculating pressure? What is the SI unit for pressure? Why does pressure change with elevation and depth? How much greater is water pressure at a depth of 6,500 m than it is at sea level?
Class Activities: Students will complete 15-Minute Manager and read and discuss pages 371-378. Students will complete Discover Activity on page 372, and the Lab Zone on page 374. Students will review Math Skills on pages 373, and 378.
HW: Study chapter 11. Write up the lab on page 379.
Wednesday 1/27/10: Fluid Pressure
Essential Questions: What is a fluid? What causes fluid pressure? What is wind? Is air a liquid or a gas? Why do astronauts need spacesuits?
Class Activities: Students will review and discuss questions in section 1 assessment on page 378. Students will complete Spinning Sprinklers Lab on page 379.
HW: Study chapter 11, and complete Chapter 11 workbook pages 157-162.
Thursday 1/28/10: Floating and Sinking
Essential Questions: What is buoyant force? What is Archimedes' Principle? What is density?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 380. Students will complete the Lab Zone on page 384.
HW: Study chapter 11, and write up the lab on page 386. Copy the DATA TABLE!
Friday 1/29/10: Pascal's Principle
Essential Questions: What is Pascal's Principle? What does Pascal's Principle say about change in fluid pressure? What is a hydraulic system? How does a hydraulic system work? Class Activities: Students will complete a vocabulary test on terms from chapters 9-11. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 388.
HW: Study chapter 11. Complete the review on page 401. Draw and complete the flowchart and write the questions and word answers for Reviewing Key Terms.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/18/10: Holiday
Tuesday 1/19/10: Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
Essential Questions: What is gravity? What is free fall? What is air resistance? What is terminal velocity? Answer questions 1c-2c on page 337.
Class Activities: Students will review chapter 9 test and work in pairs to draw illustrations of balanced and unbalanced forces.
HW: Study chapter 10. The test on this chapter will be given on Monday 1/25/10. 8th grade writing test is tomorrow. Bring #2 pencils, black or dark blue pens, and an AR book to your homerooms.
Wednesday 1/20/10: Friction and Gravity
Essential Questions: How does the direction of friction compare to the direction of gravity? What is the difference between weight and mass? What is the SI unit for weight? What is the SI unit for force?
Class Activities: Students will complete their balanced and unbalanced projects. Students will complete lab activities to investigate the "Center of Gravity."
HW: Study chapter 10.
Thursday 1/21/10: Newton's First and Second Laws of Motion
Essential Questions: What is force? How is mass related to inertia?
Class Activities: Students will complete First Law Magic Lab and discuss their results. Students will complete MAth Practice Calculating Force on page 351. Write the questions and show all work. Students will complete Math Practice on page 352. Write the questions and show all work. Students will complete questions 2a-2c on page 352. Write the questions and use complete sentences to fully explain your answer.
HW: Study chapter 10 for tomorrow's test.
Friday 1/22/10: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Essential Questions: What is Newton's Third Law of Motion? How is the momentum of an object determined? Why don't action and reaction forces cancel each other?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 10 test review. After the test, students will complete the Discover Activity "How Pushy is a Straw?" on page 353. Students will also complete the Lab Zone on page 357.
HW: Study chapter 10 for the test which will be given on Monday 1/25/10.
Last week's lesson steps:
Monday 1/11/10: Forces
Essential Questions: What is a force? What is friction? What is Motion? What is inertia? What are Newton's Three Laws of Motion?
Class Activities: Students will watch and take notes on Bill Nye video about Friction. Video quiz follows. Students will review physics cartoons about forces and motion. Students without homework have to complete chapter 10 section assessments. Write the questions and complete sentece answers. Students will complete chapter 10 vocabulary.
HW: Complete chapter 10 workbook pages. Study chapter 10. Complete all assignments that you were assigned and did not complete in class today.
Tuesday 1/12/10: Friction
Essential Questions: What is friction? What is a Newton? What is net force? What are balanced and unbalanced forces and what is their effect on objects?
Class Activities: Students will review chapter 10 concepts during 15-Minute Manager of the homework in their workbooks. Students will complete Lab Zone on page 337. Students will work in pairs to build a house of cards. Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 340.
HW: Study chapter 10. Complete Friction 500 lab. (Handout) This lab is due on Thursday and should be written as a full lab. If possible, complete your lab on the computer and draw computerized data tables and graphs of your data. Place your work on a poster or construction paper. Bonus Points will be given for work completed on the computer and displayed on a poster or construction paper. The Mock 8th grade Writing Test is tomorrow. Bring #2 pencils and black or dark blue ink pens to use on the writing test.
Wednesday 1/13/10: Friction and Gravity
Essential Questions: What are the four types of friction? Name, define, and provide examples of each type of friction. What is gravity? What factors do gravity depend on? What is the difference between mass and weight?
Class Activities: Students will complete the Lab Zone Activity on page 342. Students will complete the Lab Zone Skills Activity on page 345.
HW: Complete the Math Analyzing Data on page 346. Draw and label the graph. Write the questions. Study chapter 10.
Thursday 1/14/10: Gravity and Motion
Essential Questions: What is gravity? What is motion? What is free fall? Besides gravity, what force acts on falling objects? What is air resistance? What is terminal velocity?
Class Activities: Students will complete labs to visualize air resistance. Students will play a game of "tug of war" to explore the concept of balanced and unbalanced forces.
HW: Study chapter 10, and complete Writing in Science on page 348. Final exam tomorrow on chapter 9. Study your notes on this chapter.
Friday 1/15/10: Newton's Laws of Motion
Essential Questions: What are Newton's Three Laws of Motion? State the laws and give an example of each law. What is inertia? What is a scientific law?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 9 test on motion. Students will present results from the Friction 500 lab that was turned in on Thursday.
HW: Study chapter 10.
Last week's lesson steps: (1/4-1/8/10)
Monday 1/4/10: Teachers' Planning Day
Tuesday 1/5/10: Motion and Forces
Essential Questions: What is motion? What is force? What is mass? What is a ramp?
Class Activities: Students will participate in chapter 9 review. Students will complete the lab on page 318: "Inclined to Roll." Students will complete the Discover Activity on page 320: "Will You Hurry Up?" Students will complete Discover Activity on page 326: "Stopping on a Dime." All lab activities are to be completed during the course of this week and are due on Friday 1/8/10.
HW: Study chapter 9. Students assigned to complete the Chapter 9 Vocabulary foldable should finish it at home for homework if they did not finish the foldable in class today. 4th block students that are working on Newton's Three Laws of Motion should complete this activity for homework if you did not complete this activity in class today.
Wednesday 1/6/10: Graphing Motion
Essential Questions: What is speed? What is velocity? What is acceleration? What is slope?
Class Activities: Students will complete 10-Minute Manager and read pages 312-317. Students will draw figure 5 on page 316, and complete Graphing Motion Assessment #2a-b on page 317. Students will complete lab activities started on 1/5/10. Alternate class activities: Students will complete chapters 9, 10, and 11.
HW: Read chapter 9, and complete any labs started in class. All labs are due Friday.
Thursday 1/7/10: Calculating Acceleration
Essential Questions: What is acceleration? What is the formula for acceleration? What are the three ways that an object can accelerate? What types of graphs can you use to analyze the acceleration of an object?
Class Activities: Students will complete Math Practice on pages 323, and 325.
HW: Study chapter 9, and complete labs for this week.
Friday 1/8/10: Describing and Measuring Motion
Essential Questions: What is motion? What are Newton's Three Laws of Motion? What is inertia? What is gravity?
Class Activities: Students will complete chapter 9 test. Students will begin chapter 10 study of Forces.
HW: Study chapter 10. Find cartoons about Newton' s Three Laws of Motion. (You may use the internet and print cartoons or you may draw and color your own cartoons about forces and motion.
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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.
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.
Absent students with excused absences have three days to complete and turn in all missed assignments including classwork and homework. Please utilize the website to keep up with your work. Assignments are listed on this website in great detail so you should have no problems completing your missed assignments. You may get a handout from me upon your return to class if the assignment was a handout of some kind. Students will need to make up all tests, quizzes, and labs after school. This type of assignment must be made up within the approved three days for excused abscences also.
Remember; "Read, Read, Read! Study, Study, Study! Learn, Learn, Learn!
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.
See you tomorrow!
Love you,
Mrs. Davis
