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Need extra help? My regular after-school days are Wednesdays and Thursdays. You can also see me 8th period on A and B days, with a pass. |
Ms. Memmott/Science Welcome to 8th grade science! Check here for homework and notices (updated daily). You can also find fun science games and links here -- visit these at home or if you have extra time in class (with permission.) |
Were you absent today? Check the homework on my calendar. And don't forget to see me as soon as you return about make-up work. |
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Fun Websites To Try: General Science: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? On-Line Science Quiz Energy Identify Photos – Infrared Technology Chemistry Molecularium – Interactive Animation (It’s silly, but try it! You may learn something.) Steel Wool Demo (saw in class 10/15) Metric Games Practice Measuring Centimeters
September Homework Schedule -- 2007-2008 |
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Read the course guidelines sheet and write down 2 questions you have about the guidelines. And: explore this website and write down 1 thing you learned from it. |
Complete the Home Metric Survey on the chart you made in class, or use this chart. Add a section to your binder labeled "measurement" if you have not already. |
Finish the "length lab" worksheet you received today. You will need a metric ruler for this -- remember to bring back any borrowed rulers Monday. You can find a copy of the length lab worksheet here. |
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No homework tonight -- "Mellow Monday" |
Finish the "Measurement Wrap-Up" handout you received today -- both sides. |
NOTE: no extra help today afterschool, sorry! Homework: observe something cooking at home (microwave, stove, anything being heated) and write down at least 6 qualitative observations. Also: if you didn't in class, start a new section in your binder -- "Scientific Method" |
No School - Rosh Hashanah |
NOTE: there will be extra help afterschool today. But there is no late bus, so make sure you have a ride! Work on the "flame lab investigation" lab report -- rough draft due Tuesday, 9/18, final copy due Wed., 9/19. Use the FCA sheet as your guide. |
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Rough draft of "flame lab investigation" due today. Picture day! |
Final copy of "flame lab investigation" due today. Afterschool help today Homework: start reviewing for Wed.'s "quest." Try some of the new "metric game" links under "fun websites to try" for metric practice. |
Afterschool help today REMINDER: 8th grade t-shirt order forms due tomorrow -- $10 cash or check to DSMS -- order small, med, large, or XL |
"Quest" on Measurement and Scientific Method today. |
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Cover your science textbook. Make sure your binder is neat and organized. You can recycle old warm-up's through 9/21 -- save other handouts! Start a new section in your binder labeled "Matter, Chap. 1" |
For Periods 2 and 3 only -- finish the "Sponge Bob lab safety" sheet from today For all classes -- complete the Note-Taking page for "What is Matter?" pages 4-9 of your textbook for THURSDAY.. |
Unit 1 "quests" were handed back today. Have these signed by a parent and returned to me by FRIDAY. Please bring your covered textbook to class until further notice! |
We now have a class set of books. You don't need to bring your book to class again after today. But make sure you have shown me your covered textbook and organized binder -- I checked those today for a grade. |
Homework == Choose to EITHER Measure the volume of 3 regular items -- a rectangular cereal or pasta box, a calculator, and a book -- show all work and label units OR Measure the volume of your hand by water displacement. Explain your method and results. You can use mL's, oz's, or cups. DUE MONDAY |
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Complete the notes page for Matter, Chap. 1, Section 2. DUE WED. |
Remember to bring in permission slips for Oct. 24 field trip to tech high schools. Note: check this website for an explanation of today's lab (gummy bears and water). |
Open House Tonight! Do the math focus questions (1-3) on page 13 and ALL questions on page 27. Show formulas and work. DUE FRIDAY. |
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Complete the notes page for Matter Chap. 1, Section 3. DUE WED., 10/10 |
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No School - Columbus Day |
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Answer the open response question on density (using what you learned today in lab). This will most likely be collected and graded -- due tomorrow. |
Answer Section Review Questions 1-2, 4-6, and 9 on page 21 in complete sentences. DUE TOMORROW. |
No homework tonight! Happy weekend!
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Read over tomorrow's lab "Investigating Physical and Chemical Changes" -- add an observation chart to the page you started in class with heading, title, purpose. |
Complete the practice open response question sheet you received today -- due Thursday. |
Half Day - PD 5,6,7,8 8th Grade Field Day is planned for today. |
No homework -- but make sure you bring the work from class today for tomorrow's lab: Heating Baking Soda. |
Finish the rough draft of your lab report for the Heating Baking Soda lab for Monday -- just add conclusion questions to your lab work. |
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Final copy of Baking Soda lab report due tomorrow (Tues.) -- use this format. You may also hand in final copy Wed. a.m. before the field trip, but remember you will not have science on Wed. so you must come see me first thing in the morning! |
Finish at least 4 out of the 5 parts of this review sheet for Thursday.
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8th Grade Field Trip to Vocational/
Extra Time to study? Try this website for making flashcards |
Here are some websites you can try to review matter, and density: Interactive Practice on Physical vs. Chemical Properties Mass Volume Density Quiz (Good questions, except for #6 which is poorly worded) Density Calculations (cc stands for cubic centimeters) |
Science Test -- Unit 2 (Matter, Chap.1) Extra Challenge: which of these demo's are physical changes and which are chemical? Chemistry Comes Alive!:
Homework: bring a piece of gum (in its wrapper) to class on Monday. Bring a flavor that you like! |
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Finish the 1-page worksheet on products and reactants you received today for tomorrow (sorry, not available online). |
Read Chap.2, Sec. 1 of your book and complete the notes page for this section. DUE THURSDAY. |
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Do the Section Review questions page 35 -- complete sentences -- due tomorrow. |
Baking soda lab reports were handed back today -- please have a parent sign and bring back to class on Tuesday to put into your portfolio folders. |
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No School - Veterans Day (observed) |
In-class: try these web pages about phases of matter. Homework: complete the notes page for Section 3 of Chap. 2 DUE THURS. |
Extra time in class? Click here and here to find out more about the "fourth" state of matter -- plasma. |
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Read and "mark up" the lab for Monday -- "Determining the Melting/Freezing Point of a Substance." Answer questions 1-3 on the lab sheet and make a data table to use to record your data. DUE MONDAY. |
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Make sure you bring the data you collected in lab today to class tomorrow -- in a nice, neat, well-labeled data table. |
If you did not finish the graph of the melting/freezing lab data in class today please finish for homework (due next class). |
Half Day - Thanksgiving Recess 1,2,3,4 |
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Full Day - PD NO SCHOOL |
Complete review sheet for Friday's Unit Test by Thursday. |
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Unit Test -- Conservation and States of Matter (Mainly Chap. 2 of text) No homework this weekend! |
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