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Monday - Friday Feb 12 - 16 8th Science

Monday

What Do You Already Know about Energy? pp 271-274

get ready (heading in notebook)

SS: work quickly and quietly with your group

read the investigation SILENTLY

I will get you started for step B-1

do step B-2

go to normal assigned lab station and:

	do steps B3 - B5
	return to computer seat

start on WrapUp while you wait for us to do step B6

finish WrapUp

Tuesday

Finish yesterday's,

	be ready to present your system to the class
	WrapUp

Generating some HEAT! pp274-277

	get heading in notebook I.Q.: How does fertilizer affect the temperature of a compost pile?
	read, SILENTLY, the investigation.
	as a class we will decide on our recipe and other details.

If anyone has a actual medical condition (asthma, weak lungs, ...) and feels that the dust and odors in the room today and tomorrow will cause them to become sick, BRING A NOTE FROM YOUR PARENT/GUARDIAN AND you may be excused to the library to do a written report on compost. What is it, what goes into it, what does it give us, what can affect it working, what good is it, who makes it, is it made commercially, problems with making it (both personally and commercially), etc. Be sure to include: Energy input(s), output(s), and all transformations.
The report should consider the above questions, some or all of them to whatever extent possible. You need to include a "source" for each piece of information, see the librarian for help on how to list the sources.

Wednesday

see Tuesday

finish setting up Generating Heat.

Consider this while I take role:

What is our IQ? (hint: it is not in the text, search your brain)

are we done setting up the experiment?

if not, what is left to do?

Thursday

on yesterday's lab paper:

copy these statements

	Energy cannot be created or destroyed
	Energy can only change form; one form of energy changes into another
	ex.: light from sun changes into heat after being absorbed by my skin