Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Study and Sign Prospectus
Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Science Introduction and Expectations
Review Prospectus
Lab Safety Rules/Activity
Warm Up:
Make a numbered list and write down any lab
safety rules that you remember from last year.
1)
2)
3)
Homework: 1. Study and Sign Prospectus
2. Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
3. Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
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8th Grade Science Interactive
Notebook Set-up
Date A-Day
Date B-Day
Homework Title(s)
Warm Up:
Write out questions, charts, diagrams
AND your responses!!!
Inside Cover of
Notebook
Homework: Homework assignments should always be
written here, as the title AND in your agenda!
Page #
Keep This Page
Blank!!!!
Prospectus Page
Keep This Page
Blank!!!!
Tape 8th Grade Science
Prospectus Here
Page Set-Up Expectations
Date A-Day
Date B-Day
Homework Title(s)
Date A-Day
Date B-Day
Classwork Titles
This will tell you what we are doing in class and what we
plan to accomplish in today’s lesson
Warm Up:
Write out questions, charts, diagrams
AND your responses!!!
Homework: Homework assignments should always be
written here, as the title AND in your agenda!
Page #
Page #
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Study and Sign Prospectus
Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Science Introduction and Expectations
Review Prospectus
Lab Safety Rules/Activity
Warm Up:
Make a numbered list and write down any lab
safety rules that you remember from last year.
1)
2)
3)
Homework: 1. Study and Sign Prospectus
2. Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
3. Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Earth Layers Pre-Assessment
Finish Lab Report
Monday, August 29, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Prospectus Quiz
1st Science Lab
Lab Report
Warm Up:
1. What is the procedure for making up late
assignments?
2. What are the three most important things
to bring to science each day?
3. What are the first three things that you
are supposed to do when you arrive to
science class each day?
***If you finish all these questions, review
your prospectus to prepare for quiz.
Homework: 1. Complete take-home Earth Layers Pre-
Assessment
2. Finish Lab Report
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Lab Vocabulary Sentences
Warm Up:
1. Copy and organize the steps of the
scientific method in correct order
____ organize data
____ write hypothesis
____ identify problem
____ conclusion
____ do the experiment
____ observe what happens
____ get background information
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
District Formative
Lab Report Expectations/Rubric
Lab Vocabulary
Define the following words using the handbook in
the back of your textbook. (pgs R1 – R35)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Homework: 1. Write individual sentences for each lab
vocabulary word you defined today in
class.
2. Study your vocabulary words!
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8.
9.
1.
Hypothesis
Hypothesis - Tentative explanation for an observation
or scientific problem that can be tested by further
2.investigation.
Independent variable
Independent variable - The factor that you wish to test
that is manipulated
or changed so that it can be
3.and Dependent
variable
tested.
Dependent variable - The factor that you measure to
4.gather
Control
resultsvariable
Control variable - A variable that is the same in every
possible except for the factor you wish to test.
5.wayManipulate
Manipulate - Changing something so it can be tested
Operational definition - description of the one
6.particular
Operational
definition
way in which
you will measure the
dependent variable.
Observation
- Observations that include
7.Qualitative
Qualitative
Observation
descriptions of sights, sounds, smells and textures.
Quantitative Observation - Observations that can be
8.expressed
Quantitative
Observation
in numbers
and include records of time,
temperature, mass, distance and volume.
- An expectation of what will be observed
9.Prediction
Prediction
or what will happen.
Inference
10. 10.
Inference
- A logical conclusion drawn from the
available evidence and prior knowledge; often made
from observations.
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Friday, September 2, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Study for Quiz on Earth’s Layers and Lab Vocabulary
Warm Up:
1. List and describe a variety of operations
you could have used during your penny
lab.
***Recall what operation means from your lab
vocabulary
Operational Definition
•Several ways to measure something,
define how you want to
•Usually found in procedure
•This helps people to know what you
did and build off of it
Friday, September 2, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Lab Vocabulary Review
Earth Layers Diagram Notes
Earth Dissection Activity
Lab Vocabulary Review:
Qualitative
Quantitative
Ticket out the door:
Independent variable
– comes after
Non-numerical:
Numerical:
the
“if” in hypothesis.
Hypothesis
Sights
Time
Change
Control
Variable
to Write
Constant!!
Make
a
T-Chart
or
Sounds
Mass
Dependent
Variable
– Come
Sentences
describing
howafter
the
SmellsInference
Distance
the “then” inEarth’s
hypothesis.
Volumelayers in
egg Textures
represented
Require measuring
Easier to Observe
Prediction
our activity. Also, list what layer
of the Earth was not accurately
represented in our model?
Homework: 1. Study vocabulary words and Earth layers
diagram for your quiz next class.
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Quiz Day!
• Sit quietly and review for your quiz,
you don’t need to write anything
down YET.
*You will need a pencil and a scrap
piece of paper out and ready to
use.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Drifting Continents Extended Reading
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Lab Vocabulary and Earth Layers Quiz
Pangaea Activity
Earthquakes and Volcanoes Video
Lithosphere:
Warm Up:
•Earth’s curst and the uppermost part of the
1. Open up your text book to page 11 of Unit A
mantle
2. Read pages 11 – 13 and create three bullets
•The most rigid of all the layers
for the following terms:
•Is broken into many small slabs of rock
Lithosphere
•Sits on top of the asthenosphere
Asthenosphere
Tectonic Plates
Asthenosphere:
•Layer of hotter, softer rock in the midmantle
•Flows slowly like tar
•Layer that the lithosphere floats on top of
Tectonic Plates:
•Small and large slabs of rock in the
reading worksheet and answer questions
lithosphere
on back
•Fit together like a jigsaw puzzle
•Include both continental and oceanic crust
Homework: 1. Read “Drifting Continents” extended
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Finish Pangaea questions
Friday, September 9, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Evidence for Pangaea Diagram Notes
Quiz “talk”
Video with Questions
Warm Up:
1. Write a sentence using each of the following
words. DO NOT simply rewrite the
definition:
1. lithosphere
2. tectonic plates
3. asthenosphere
Homework: 1. Finish Pangaea questions
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Evidences for Pangaea Map
North America
Eurasia
Africa
South America
India
Australia
Antarctica
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Read Section 1.4 of Unit A
Define specific vocabulary words (see below)
Warm Up: Copy and Match definition with term
1. A huge landmass in
which all continents were
once joined
2 hypothesis that Earth's
continents were once
joined in a single
landmass and gradually
moved apart
3 theory that Earth's
lithosphere is made up of
huge, moving plates that
are carried around by
motions in the mantle
Divergent Boundaries (pgs 23, 26 -28) with RSG
Diagram/Notes/Visualize Movement
Hot Spots
Convection Currents - A motion that drives plate
movement by transferring heat energy in a material
Plate Boundaries
A. Pangaea
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
B. Sea-floor
spreading
Divergent Boundaries Vocabulary
C. Plate Tectonics
D. Continental
Drift
Homework: 1. Read Section 1.4 of Unit A in textbook
2. Define the following vocabulary words:
• Subduction
•Continental-continental collision
•Oceanic-oceanic subduction
•Oceanic-continental subduction
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Rift Valley – Area a gap is formed between two
plates and molten material rises to build new crust
Mid-ocean Ridge – longest chain of mountains on
Earth; formed with rift valleys along their center
Hot Spots
- Area where heated rock rises in thin columns
(plumes) from the mantle and usually forms a
volcano
- The hot spot stays in one place and the tectonic
plate above it keeps moving
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Convergent Boundaries - Diagram/Notes/Model
Diagram Completion
NOT SURE
Warm Up:
1. Copy down the t-chart you made from the
previous class. Now that you know a bit more
about divergent boundaries, add more information
to that column. Be sure to include the definition for
each type of boundary!
Be ready to discuss.
Plate Boundaries
Divergent
Homework: 1.
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Convergent
Transform
Convergent Boundaries Notes
Subduction – When one plate sinks beneath the other
Continental – Continental Collision – Occurs when two plates
carrying continental crust push together
- Both are same density; neither one sinks
- Edges will crumple and fold to from mountains
-Examples: European Alps
Himalayas
*Both of these mountains still rising higher
Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction – Occurs when one plate with
oceanic crust sinks under another oceanic plate
-Older plate will always sink b/c its colder and more dense
-Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
-Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the
ocean floor as the plate sinks
- Island Arcs (Volcanic Islands) – chains of volcanic
islands that from due to pressure in the asthenosphere
-Examples: - Philippine Islands
- Aleutian Islands of Alaska
- Islands of Japan
Oceanic-Continental Subduction – Occurs when the denser
oceanic plate sinks under the continental plate
- Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
-Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the
ocean floor as the plate sinks
- Coastal Mountains- Pressure builds up below
continental crust and forces magma upwards causing a
volcanic mountain to form
-Examples: - Cascade Mountains Page 16
- Mount St. Helens (active)
Convergent Boundaries Notes
Subduction – When one plate sinks beneath the other
Continental – Continental Collision – Occurs when two plates carrying
continental crust push together
- Both are same density; neither one sinks
- Edges will crumple and fold to from mountains
-Examples: European Alps
Himalayas
*Both of these mountains still rising higher
Convergent Boundaries Notes Continued…
Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction – Occurs when one plate with oceanic crust sinks under another
oceanic plate
-Older plate will always sink b/c its colder and more dense
-Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
-Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
- Island Arcs (Volcanic Islands) – chains of volcanic islands that from due to pressure in
the asthenosphere
-Examples: - Philippine Islands
- Aleutian Islands of Alaska
- Islands of Japan
Oceanic-Continental Subduction – Occurs when the denser oceanic plate sinks under the
continental plate
- Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
-Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
- Coastal Mountains- Pressure builds up below continental crust and forces magma
upwards causing a volcanic mountain to form
-Examples: - Cascade Mountains
- Mount St. Helens (active)