~Welcome to Grade 8 Science. 

This course is made up of 4 Units which include:

  •         Unit 1 --Water and The Oceans
  •            Unit 2 -- Fluids
  •            Unit 3 -- Optics
  •            Unit 4 -- Cells and Systems

Congratulations on a very successful science fair!!

 

Science 8-2 Homework: 

May 14:

~Please sign and return tests on chapter 10

~ Bring an extra duo tang for scientific literacy 

~ Chapter 11 review assignment is due on Friday, May 18

May 1:

~ Worked on review in class today !

~ Term quiz on 11-20 will be Thursday, May 3

~ Bring a ruler to next class to complete the lab we will be doing !!

~complete BLM pages 4-9 and 4-10 for next class !!

~ Test date for Chapter 10 has been set for May 10

April 26:

~All terms are due on Tuesday, May 1

~Term quiz on terms 1-10 is Tuesday

~ Foldable needs to be finished and passed in on May 1

~Complete chapter review for chapter 10 numbers 1-10 for Tuesday, May 1

~ Term quiz on terms 11-20 will be on Thursday, May 3

~Review sheet for chapter 10 numbers 11-22 need to be completed for May 3 as well!

Students are reminded  to bring materials in to complete the characteristics of life foldable for next class which will be tomorrow April 26.

April 24:

~Remember to make the foldable for tomorrow and bring in materials so that we can finish the foldable in class Thursday!!

~Continue to work on your terms that are due on Monday !!

~Term Quizzes begin on May 1!!

April 23:

~Students are reminded to bring in all materials that they may have to add to their duo tangs for Unit 3 on Optics!

~ Terms for Unit 4 were distributed and must be completed by April 30 !

Read in text pages 384 to page 391

~Term Quiz dates are as follows:

    1-10 --May 1 Tuesday

   11-20 --May 3 Thursday

   21-30 -- May  4 Friday

   31-40-- May 8 Tuesday

   41-50 -- May10 Thursday

 

December13:

~duo tangsmust be passed in to Mrs. A by tomorrow

~Questions page 280 #s 1-4 and page 281 #s 1-4  are due to be corrected on Friday December 16!!

Nov.30:

~terms for unit 2 were worked on in class today after the test--these terms are due on Monday, December 5!

Nov.28:

~Science test will be on Wednesday, November 30!

~Congratulations on a successful science fair!!

Nov23:

~ Review for Chapter 3 was completed in class today !

Bring all materials to class for further review --test is Wednesday, Nov 30

Nov. 21:

~Term Quiz on terms 14-27 will be Wednesday.

~Questions 1to 5 page 94

~ Review for Chapter 3 was passed out !

~Test date --November 30

Nov.16:

~Students need to bring science fair portfolios to next class!

Nov14:

~ In Class Worksheet was completed today and Science Fair Protfolios were reviewed.

~ Term quiz dates are:

      1-13 will be on Nov.21

     14-27 will be on Nov.23

Nov.8:

~Tests have been corrected, returned, signed and hopefully placed in the duo tangs and returned to your portfolios in school.

~November 10 we will be correcting the following questions :

Pg.83 #s 1,2,3, and 4.

Pg. 87 #s 3&4

Pg. 89 2,3,5,6,8 and 9

~ November 15--bring in Science Fair portfolios and written portion of the project!!

October 31:

~Review sheet has been completed and corrected

~ In Class Review Assignments will be finished in class tomorrow

~ Test is Friday , Nov. 4

October 27:

~ We worked on the question portion of the review sheet today ! Students are reminded to work on teh completion section of the review -this will be corrected on Monday of next week!!

~ Test is Friday, Nov 4!

October 25:

~ Foldables were collected from those students who had their work completed in a timely fashion.

~ Completed chapter 2 up to the section on tides!

~ Review sheet will be given out next class

~ Test date is set for Nov. 4

 

October 21 :

~ Corrected questions 1-4 on page 47 adn 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10 on page 51!!

~ Foldable is due on Surface Currents vs. Deep Currents on tuesday, Oct. 25

~ Include the following in the foldable:

  * Cover page with titles

  * Inside Cover-

     --Define each type of current.

    --Factors that affect each of the currents and a description of each

  --Other ??? 

* Remember to be creative, neat, colorful and keep the information factual and relevant!!

 

October 19:

~STSE Assignments were passed in !

~ Students worked on Questions on page 47(1,2,3&4) and page 51 ( 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9&10)  These questions will be worked on again in Thursday's class and will be corrected on Friday!

October18:

~Science Fair portfolios were handed out yesterday and we discussed how this year's science fair would work !! 

~Science Fair will be on November 22nd, 2011

~Students will be given some class time to work on the project and students are more than welcome to stay after school next week on the following days to work on their projects ( rides must be prearranged for student pickup)                                    

Monday---3-4:15pm

                                      Wednesday--3-4:15pm

                                      Thursday -- 3-4:15 pm

~Students are encouraged to get together with their partners and to get started on their projects !!

~Duo tangs for chapter 1 have been collected .

Sept. 27:

~ Labs were completed and passed in ( a page of questions was handed out today in class as part of the conclusion for the lab)

~Quizzes1 and 2 were returned and must be signed and put in blue duo tang

~ Quiz 3 on terms 21-32 was completed and will be returned tomorrow!

~ Review sheet was given out and TEST DATE for chapter 1 is October 3, 2011.

Questions 1-8 on review will be corrected on Thursday of this week.

Questions 9-16 will be corrected on Friday of this week!!

Sept. 21:

~Term quiz on terms 11-20 Thursday, Sept 22

~ bring a green, yellowm red, blue and purple lead/crayon to class tomorrow

~ questions on page 28 #s 1,2,& 4 as well as questyionson page 33 #s 1,2,4 & 5 are due on Friday, Sept.23.

Sept. 20 --Term Quiz Terms 1-10

 

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