Today in class, students in integrated science began by determining the slope of their force vs. mass graphs as a warm-up activity. When we had all shared our data, we learned that the slopes of all our graphs were 10 N/kg, regardless of our data. Students then were shown how 10 N/kg could be converted to a more manageable unit, and they found that it was really 10 m/s^2, which is an acceleration. All our tests showed that weight will accelerate all masses at 10 m/s^2 (on Earth). Students called into question whether this holds true for all objects, and so tomorrow we’ll be dropping objects and determining their accelerations.

Science 8 students today continued the Depositional Environments Practice Quiz  using their notes from the Depositional Environments Lab (Depositional Environments Lab Stations). For the end of class, students were given a cross section map of Ohio’s bedrock and tasked with creating the story that accompanies that data. Students created stories that utilized the evidence from the map, along with information from the Depositional Environments Lab Stations and the Geologic Features and What they tell us packet. We will finish creating the stories tomorrow.

HOMEWORK: Integrated= finish your graph of your data, begin setting up your lab report.
Science 8 students= finish annotations (10 points) for the article Clues to the Great Dying