Today in integrated science, students worked on their electricity test, and then read over their Classification of Matter reading. Students will be making a list of new vocab terms that they’ll be doing an activity with tomorrow.

Science 8 students today graded their Geologic Features and What they tell us Worksheet (based on their information in their packets yesterday). Students then played a short game. Looking at a map of Ohio’s bedrock, students  listened to a description of Ohio’s geologic history, from being created by convergent boundaries to the glaciers that covered Ohio. Students were challenged to find evidence for every piece of information that was presented by throwing up their hands and identifying it. When finished, we reviewed how to do the Historical Geology Worksheet. Students will first put the lettered events in order, as we’ve done in the past. Then, next to each blank, students will write the information that each rock layer or event tells us. For example, in the packet from Wednesday students learned that a reverse fault is caused by a convergent boundary and compression. So, if  letter K  in a problem indicated a reverse fault, students would write, “Near a convergent boundary, compression” on the space next to letter K.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= Classification of Matter reading. create a vocab list.
Science 8= finish Historical Geology Worksheet. Finish the rock climber reading

Today in class, students in Integrated practiced doing calculations for parallel circuits. We also had a short exit ticket that showed most students have mastered the parallel circuit calculations. Tomorrow, they’ll be listening to two presentations about Project Lead The Way classes at the high school.

Students in science 8 finished working on their Half-life of a Penny activity or watched the presentations.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= study for electricity test Wednesday
Science 8= Finish lab (periods 3 and 4 only)

Today in class, students in Integrated science took a retake of the week 20 quiz after reviewing the answers to the Ohm’s Law Lab. Then students reviewed how a parallel circuit will increase its current and decrease resistance overall if there are branches added. This culminated in a demo showing how a circuit breaker works. KABOOM! This weekend for homework, students will practice doing calculations for series and parallel circuits with the Finding V I and R worksheet.

Students in science 8 also took a quiz retake after reviewing the answers to the Relative Dating Practice homework. Students then read over the Half-life of a Penny activity and began to do a modified version of the lab using paper clips. Over the weekend, students who earned a 5 or less out of 8 on the Relative Dating Practice homework will need to redo their work and write out the laws that accompany each event to earn back credit.

HOMEWORK: Integrated=Finding V I and R worksheet
Science 8= students with a 5 or less on the Relative Dating Practice homework need to redo it with laws written next to each letter.

Today in class, students in integrated science class reviewed some of the quantitative properties of series and parallel circuits. Students tonight will work on Ohm’s Law Lab worksheet.

Science 8 students learned about absolute dating using the Relative and absolute dating notes powerpoint and took notes on Absolute Dating Notes. Some students in periods 6-7 also had a study session while others were taking notes for the quiz retake tomorrow. Students tonight will finish up the Relative Dating Practice.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= Ohm’s Law, quiz retake tomorrow.
Science 8=Relative Dating Practice, study for quiz retake

Integrated= Electricity Test Wednesday next week; Period 1 finish Series and Parallel Circuit Bases Lab

Science 8= Flash cards due Tomorrow; Period 7 finish questions 4 and 5 on Telling Relative Time worksheet

Relative Dating Video

Students in integrated today practiced making circuits and making predictions about what changes in the circuit would do to the light bulbs.

Students in science 8 began telling how a sandwich was made, and then worked on the Relative and absolute dating notes. Students in periods 3 and 4 will complete 1-6, and students in periods 6 and 7 will complete 1-3, for the Telling Relative Time worksheet.

Integrated Science = Ohm’s Law Practice  1-8

Science 8= Finish Quarter 3 Vocab

Today in class, students in the school had an adjusted schedule that shortened our periods for an assembly. Integrated science classes today traded and graded their reading questions on batteries, and then learned how to hook up an ammeter in a circuit. Period 2 was able to also begin taking readings of current when there are one, two, or three lightbulbs (resistors) in the circuit.

Science 8 classes spent some time finishing up their timeline of earth activities, and then began some notes on the history of thought on geology, and how the earth is shaped. Students also received a reading about “snowball earth“, which will be finished over the weekend.

HOMEWORK: Integrated =none
Science 8= finish Snowball earth reading questions, finish earth’s Timeline activity reading questions. (Periods 3 and 4 turned these in today).

Today in class, students in integrated science continued to learn about voltage, resistance, and current. Students also used the Electrical Circuit Builder from PhET (won’t work with Chromebooks) to visualize a circuit. Students also learned how to draw circuit diagrams, and will finish the front side of the Circuit Diagram Practice worksheet.

Students in science 8 finished up learning about several processes that occur which change the surface of the earth. We learned last quarter about plate tectonics, weathering, erosion, and deposition, which all change the earth, but today we covered more in depth about folding and faulting with the Constructive and Destructive Geologic Processes  Presentation. Tonight, students will practice identifying faults on the first two pages of the Geologic forces and formations worksheet.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= Circuit Diagram Practice
Science 8=Geologic forces and formations worksheet; finish set 1 of the Quarter 3 Vocab by Thursday.