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Monday - Friday   feb 11-15    8th Science 

Monday

Scientific Explanations p  193 - 199
bulletget heading on paper
bulletread aloud as a class
bulletanswer questions, complete sentences
bullet 

Turn you Rock Cycle ppt in to:

bulletAlbinStudents / a Rock cycle turn in here / your period
bulletsave as / desktop / albinstudents / ....
bulletNAME IT:  lastname lastname rocks

Tuesday

 

Evidence vs Inference:   Disappearing Dinosaurs pp 208-216

  1. get heading on paper for this Connections
  2. define on your paper: 
    evidence
    inference

Then Read 208, 209 (ignore last paragraph p 209)
-----read Explanation #1 pp 210-212
-----complete the handout
-----do same for Explanation #2

 

Wednesday

bulletp.269-274 read

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

bulletget ready (heading in notebook)
bulletSS: work quickly and quietly with your group
bulletread the investigation SILENTLY
bulletI will get you started for step B-1
bulletdo step B-2
bulletgo to normal assigned lab station and:
bulletdo steps B3  - B5
bulletreturn to computer seat
bulletstart on WrapUp while you wait for us to do step B6
bulletfinish WrapUp

 

Thursday

Generating some HEAT!  pp274-277

bulletget heading in notebook
I.Q.:  How does size affect the temperature of a compost pile?
bulletread, SILENTLY, the investigation.
bulletas 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. 

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Friday

Quiz;   ssr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/

coming soon see last Thursday

finish setting up Generating Heat.
bulletConsider this while I take role:
bulletWhat is our IQ?  (hint:  it is not in the text, search your brain)
bulletare we done setting up the experiment?
bulletif not, what is left to do?

 

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org
Whoa!

look at these

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7037366.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7011738.stm needles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/default.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/lifeintheundergrowth/video.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/lifeonair/archive.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/tv/#winning_design

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/challenges/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/quiz_more/

 
games  NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/

NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/

NEW http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/science.shtml

newer  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/games/

newer  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/puzzle.shtml

newer  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/quizzes/index.shtml

   
current science news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4780876.stm  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4815230.stm

bullet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7009798.stm
bullet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6105500.stm
bullet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1304796.stm
bullet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7016079.stm

 

musuems
http://vlmp.museophile.com/

http://www.museumca.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/museumca/usa_search.cgi?star
 

current
        websites
WASL expectations:    What You Should Know
  1. Changes in Systems
  2. Properties of Systems
  3. Structure of Systems

 

Translate
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
               or
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
 
current  
           science

 

Science/Nature various
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm

 

current
           birds

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide

http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds

 

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