Lab Safety Powerpoint:
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Parent Student Info Sheet: pdf
Student Notebook: pdf
District Syllabus: pdf
Class Syllabus: pdf
Lab Safety Booklet: pdf
Me Myself & Science: pdf
Student Syllabus:pdf

Email Me for Tuesday Night for extra credit!
MrsG9064@aol.com
Parent / Student info sheet Due: Thursday
Me Myself & Science Due: Thursday
Lab Safety Contract Signed Due: Friday
Lab Safety Booklet Work Completed & Due: Mon

WE NEED POPCORN!!
5 Extra Credit Points for bringing some in !!!

...........................8th Grade CA State Science Standards: Investigation and Experimentation
..............................................Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful investigations.
As a basis for understanding this concept and addressing the content in the other three strands, students should develop their own questions and perform investigations. Students will:
1. Plan and conduct a scientific investigation to test a hypothesis.
2. Evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of data.
3. Distinguish between variable and controlled parameters in a test.
4. Recognize the slope of the linear graph as the constant in the relationship y=kx and apply this principle in interpreting graphs constructed from data.
5. Construct appropriate graphs from data and develop quantitative statements about the relationships between variables.
6. Apply simple mathematic relationships to determine a missing quantity in a mathematic expression, given the two remaining terms
....................... (including speed = distance/time, density = mass/volume, force = pressure × area, volume = area × height).
7. Distinguish between linear and nonlinear relationships on a graph of data

Popcorn Lab:
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ABC's of Sci/pt1:
click here

lect 1&2: pdf
lect 3&4: pdf
Chp 2: Little Book of Matter: homework: pdf
Lab: Volume: pdf
Lab: Volume: Gummy Bear: pdf

Wk 5 & 6: Oct 4-15: Chp2 Properties of Matter:
Blue Holt Book: pg 34-57
Chp 2:  Little Book home work due dates:
Hwk: Pg 1-6 due Wed Oct 6: periods 1&2  
Hwk: Pg 1-6due Thur Oct 7: periods 4 & 6

lect 4: bouyancy: cliek here
lect 5: density lab: click here
Virtual Lab: why do things float
click here
Crushing lab site: click here
Crushing Lab Handout: pdf

Density Lab Handout: pdf
The entire Little Book will be due on Friday Oct 15. (remember you get to use this on the test!!)The final exam for Chp 2 will be Friday Oct 15The science notebook containing the lecture notes and completed labs for this chapter will be due on Monday Oct 18th

Hkw: Pg 13-16 due Tue Oct 12: pds 1, 2 & 4 
Pg 13-16 due Wed Oct 13 for period 6
Hwk: Pg 7-10 due Wed Oct 13: pds 1&2  
due Thur Oct 14: periods 4 & 6
FINAL EXAM Chp2: FRIDAY (Oct 15)
LABS/LECTURE Notebook: pdf DUE Oct 19/20

Little Book Homework: Chp 3: pdf
Lect 1: States of Matter: pdf
Lect 2: Changes of States: pdf
Slime Lab: pdf
Ice Cream Matters: pdf
Brain Pop/Bill Nye Handout: pdf
Phases of Matter Worksheet: pdf

Fri: Oct 22 Little Book pages: 1-7 due
Mon: Oct 25 Little Book pages: 8-12 due
WE NEED SUPPLIES!! Extra credit!
zip lock baggies (gallon/quart), rock salt,
sugar, WHOLE milk, ICE, spoons

Lect1:Elements & Compounds :
click here
Lect 2 Mixtures:click here
Lect 3: Heterogeneous/ Homogeneous mixtures:click here

Print these for Extra Credit!!!
Lecture notes: Lect 1 / Lect 2 / Lect 3
Brain Pops/Phase Diagram Worksheet: pdf
Labs: Mixtures / Investigate
*Do not print the Little Book!* Provided in class! pdf

Chp 3 Little Book Hwk: Pg 8-12 due Mon  (25th)
Chp 4 Little Book Pgs 1-4 Due Blk2 this week,
Pgs 5-8 Due next Mon (Nov1)
Unit exam next week!! Chp 2-3-4
Lab/Lect NB Chp 3 & 4 Due On Blk day1 (test day)

Mon: Jeopardy/
Completed Little Bk 4 Due
Powerpoints:
Lect 1: click here
Lect 2: click here
Lect 3: click here

......................................8th Grade CA State Science Standards: The Periodic Table
......Periodic Table:  The organization of the periodic table is based on the properties of the elements and reflects the structure of atoms.
1. Students know how to identify regions corresponding to metals, nonmetals, and inert gases.
2. Students know each element has a specific number of protons in the nucleus (the atomic number) and each isotope of the element has a different but specific number of neutrons in the nucleus.
3. Students know substances can be classified by their properties, including their melting temperature, density, hardness, and thermal and electrical conductivity.

Schedule: Mon: adv 1-6, Tue: 1-2-3-4
Wed: 5-6-1-2, NO SCHOOL THUR
Fri: 3-4-5-6
Powerpoints:
Chp12: Lect 4: click here
Chp13: click here

Chp12 Lect 4 notes: pdf
Chp13 Lect 1 notes: pdf

Additional notes:
Understanding the Periodic Table: pdf

Chp12: Little Bk: 1-4 due Fri:Nov 5,...pgs 5-8 due Mon Nov 8
pg9-12: due Nov 9 (pd 1, 2, 4) , due Nov10 (pd6)

Chp13: Periodic Table Little Bk: pdf
Pgs 1-10 due: Wed Nov10 (pd 1&2), Fri Nov12 (pd 3&4)
Pgs 11-16 due: Mon Nov15: ALL CLASSES

.....................................................8th Grade CA State Science Standards
Reactions
5. Chemical reactions are processes in which atoms are rearranged into different combinations of molecules. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know reactant atoms and molecules interact to form products with different chemical properties.
b. Students know the idea of atoms explains the conservation of matter: In chemical reactions the number of atoms stays the same no matter how they are arranged, so their total mass stays the same.
c. Students know chemical reactions usually liberate heat or absorb heat.
d. Students know physical processes include freezing and boiling, in which a material changes form with no chemical reaction.
e. Students know how to determine whether a solution is acidic, basic, or neutral.
Chemistry of Living Systems (Life Sciences)
6. Principles of chemistry underlie the functioning of biological systems. As a basis for understanding this concept:
a. Students know that carbon, because of its ability to combine in many ways with itself and other elements, has a central role in the chemistry of living organisms.
b. Students know that living organisms are made of molecules consisting largely of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
c. Students know that living organisms have many different kinds of molecules, including small ones, such as water and salt, and very large ones, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and DNA.

.....................................................8th Grade CA State Science Standards
Motion
1. The velocity of an object is the rate of change of its position.
As a basis for understanding this concept, students know:
a. position is defined relative to some choice of standard reference point and a set of reference directions.
b. average speed is the total distance traveled divided by the total time elapsed. The speed of an object along the path traveled can vary.
c. how to solve problems involving distance, time, and average speed.
d. to describe the velocity of an object one must specify both direction and speed.
e. changes in velocity can be changes in speed, direction, or both.
f. how to interpret graphs of position versus time and speed versus time for motion in a single direction.
Forces
2. Unbalanced forces cause changes in velocity.
As a basis for understanding this concept, students know:
a. a force has both direction and magnitude.
b. when an object is subject to two or more forces at once, the effect is the cumulative effect of all the forces.
c. when the forces on an object are balanced, the motion of the object does not change.
d. how to identify separately two or more forces acting on a single static object, including gravity, elastic forces due to tension or compression in matter, and friction.
e. when the forces on an object are unbalanced the object will change its motion (that is, it will speed up, slow down, or change direction).
f. the greater the mass of an object the more force is needed to achieve the same change in motion.
g. the role of gravity in forming and maintaining planets, stars and the solar system.

Lect1 & 2: pdf
Brainpops: pdf
Lab: Speed Machines: pdf

Lab Packet: Inertia-rama:pdf
Lab:Rocket Races: pdf
Motion Graphs Handout Notes: pdf
Marshmallow Catapult Lab: pdf

Final exam: chp 6 & 7 Mon & Tues
Notebook Cover Sheet: pdf

8th Grade CA State Science Standards

Earth in the Solar System (Earth Sciences):
The structure and composition of the universe can be learned from studying stars and galaxies and their evolution..
a. Galaxies are clusters of billions of stars and may have different shapes.
b.The Sun is one of many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and that stars may differ in size, temperature, and color.
c. Know how to use astronomical units and light years as measures of distances between the Sun, stars, and Earth.
d. Stars are the source of light for all bright objects in outer space and that the Moon and planets shine by reflected sunlight,
....... not by their own light.
e. Know the appearance, general composition, relative position and size, and motion of objects in the solar system, including planets,
.......planetary satellites, comets, and asteroids.

Holt: Chp 17:pdf
Little Bk Chp 17: pdf (reference only)
Little Bk Due: Mon: Mar 7

Holt: Chp 18:pdf
Little Bk Chp 18: (reference only):pdf
Little Bk Due: Mon: Mar 14
Moon Info This Week update: pdf

Final Exam Block period 1:
Pd 1-2-4: Tuesday
Pd 6: Wed

We will be watching October Sky
the remainder of the week!

Week 28:
April 10-15

Review Wk1:

Be sure to print these handouts and bring them to class on Monday for Week 1

Week 29:
Apr 18-22

Review Wk 2:

4/18: Mon: Day 5: Density & Buoyancy (Standard #8) ec handout pdf
4/19-20: Day 6: Motion (Standard #1) ec handout pdf
4/20-21: Day 7: Forces (Standard #2) ec handout pdf
4/22: Fri: Day 8: Space Science (Standard #4) ec handout pdf

Week 30:
Apr 25-29
Review Final Monday
Notebook Due Monday May2/