Lakeview Thanksgiving Food Drive

Today in integrated science, students worked on finishing up the motion detector activity from last week. Students were able to test their motions to create the graphs that they intended to, but they soon found that Mr. Ross is master of all motion detector walk-outs. Students then continued with the question of why do objects move? Students were finalizing their potential answers but will continue working tomorrow.

Science 8 students began class today by making a new section for Earth’s Interior in their notebooks and estimating the proportions of different layers of Earth. Students were then given the actual sizes, and they were floored when they discovered how small the crust is. Students wrote some “Aha moments” for how the size of the crust explains the ease with which magma/lava can penetrate it, and also how easy it is for convection currents to move the crust. We asked students to determine how they thought scientists had figured out the sizes, and then we looked up how far humans have drilled into the crust. At only 12.26 km, the deepest well was not even half way through the crust. Students began the obscertainer activity to help them learn about indirect evidence, which we’ll discuss tomorrow.

E/I worked on the  Organic vs. Conventional Farming Debate.

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