Tuesday, 30 November, 2010

This is HL 6. Write on the page and return the page. Place the other identical page in your notebook.

Students will be able to:
use information from videos from the internet, internet access, and classroom discussions to
-define and explain Newton's Laws of Motion.
-apply Newton's Laws of Motion to real life situations.

The do now was an FCAT transparency.

Students watched the BrainPop movie on Newton's Laws of Motion.

Students also reviewed HL 5 and received HL 6.

Students worked on the Discover Education activity Monster Truck Pull. In order to access your account, visit Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for Tuesday, 30 November, 2010. Click the link for Discovery Education. Sign in to the portal. Your user name is:
miami_youridnumber (put YOUR real ID number in the space!).

The password is: youridnumber_miami

Once on the site, click the tab for assignment resources and then click the link for Monster Truck Pull.

Home learning 6 can be found at the top of this blog.

Monday, 29 November, 2010

Place the answers to both sheets on one loose leaf sheet of notebook paper, properly headed. Follow all directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from videos from the internet, internet access, and classroom discussions to
-define and explain Newton's Laws of Motion.
-apply Newton's Laws of Motion to real life situations.
-share the findings of science fair projects.

Students received HL #5, which can be found at the top of this blog.

Students visited links to learn about Newton's Three Laws of Motion. You can access them by going to Dr. Gayden's Science Zone (drgcdms.podomatic.com) and clicking the link for Monday, 29 November, 2010 Eight Graders!!!

Monday, 22 November through Wednesday, 24 November, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from virtual activities and classroom discussions to
-identify balanced and unbalanced forces.
-identify and explain the differences between contact and non contact forces.
-share the findings of science fair projects.

The do now for all three days is a transparency on energy.

Students visited yTeach.co.uk. They should use their first name and last name to access each assignment.

The access codes are:
Forces-gayden
cnc
aof

Do ALL three sections and take notes as you complete the work!

Students also shared the findings of their science fair projects.

Rewrite and resubmit the circus writing exercise on Monday, 29 November.

Friday, 19 November, 2010

This is your home learning assignment. You MUST bring this sheet to class on Monday! Follow all written directions.

Students will be able to:
use information from hands-on activities and classroom discussions to
-identify balanced and unbalanced forces.
-identify and explain the differences between contact and non contact forces.
-share the findings of science fair projects.

The do now was an FCAT transparency on The Nature of Matter.

Students took a review quiz on balanced and unbalanced forces using the CPS clicker system.

Students completed the write up for the Circus Balanced and Unbalanced Forces lab.

The remainder of the period was spent with students defending their science fair projects.

Home learning can be found at the top of this blog.

Monday, 15 November Through Wednesday, 17 November, 2010

HL 4 is due on Friday. Follow the directions. The reading passage is for you to read and learn. There are no questions, but this page must be added to your notebook.


This is HL 3.




These are the lab sheets for the activities. Read the card at each station to find out what to do.

Students will be able to:
use information from hands-on activities and classroom discussions to
-identify balanced and unbalanced forces.
-identify and explain the differences between contact and non contact forces.

Students did do nows from the FCAT Transparencies on all days as their do now.

Students were asked to explain why putting a coin on an index card over a glass will allow the coin to fall into the glass when the card is flicked.

Students began the lab activity on balanced and unbalanced forces. The handouts can be found at the top of this blog.

Home learning 3 and 4 can also be found at the top of this blog.

Friday, 12 November, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from videos from the internet, internet access, and classroom discussions to
-identify balanced and unbalanced forces.
-identify and explain the differences between contact and non contact forces.

The do now was a question from the FCAT transparencies on SC.H.

Students watched a BrainPop on force.

They then did a vocabulary building activity on force and motion. Students used the text, pages 218-223 to make a vocabulary word map, including a picture to represent the word, the word, the definition, and the word used in a sentence.

Students also took three column notes, writing the word, definition and example for the noted vocabulary for that section of text (see page 218).

Students demonstrated balanced and unbalanced forces using the rolling chair, the wall, etc.

Students received HL2, which can be found at the top of this blog.

Tuesday, 9 November and Wednesday, 10 November, 2010

Please follow all instructions. Place both sets of answers on one correctly headed sheet of loose leaf notebook paper.

Students will be able to:
use information from laboratory experiments and classroom discussions to
-identify and compare the characteristics of waves (including relevant calculations) and how media changes the behavior of waves. See FCAT Reference Sheet.
-compare and contrast mechanical and electromagnetic waves.
-explain how technology utilizes electromagnetic waves.

The do now on each day was completing an FCAT transparency on SC.H; The Nature of Science.

Students received a new assessment sheet, which should be placed on page 2 in the interactive notebook.

Home learning 1, which is due on Friday, can be found at the top of this blog.

Students visited the ylearn site, found at www.ylearn.co.uk. They entered their name and access codes to review information on waves and energy. The three modules and the access codes are:

waves
access codes: waves-gayden waves2-gayden energy-gayden (note: there are TWO pages for energy).

Wednesday, 3 November through Friday, 5 November, 2010

Students will be able to:
use information from laboratory experiments and classroom discussions to
-obtain reaction time by making simple measurements.
-discuss theories of left-handedness and right-handedness and how they have developed and modified over time as new scientific evidence is examined.

Each day, the do now was either a question from Mastering the FCAT, Strand H or to review prior mini assessments, to ready students for the upcoming quarterly assessment.

Students went to Dr. Gayden's Science Zone for Wednesday, 3 November, 2010 and did the reaction time activities, recording the averages for the different tests.

Students also graphed the group data from the Reaction Time lab. Students did a group graph for the reaction times for the online activities.

Since Science Fair projects are due Friday, there was no nightly home learning assigned.