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8th Grade Science

Course Description

Welcome to 8th grade science! I will post on here regularly and if you would like to be notified immediately of updates click on the subscribe button on the side of the page. Here I will also be including the Table of Contents for the class. To find out what class materials are required please check the Grade Level Supply list.
 
 
Table of Contents Page Number
Title Page 1
Disclosure 2
Disclosure 3
Table of Contents 4
Instead of IDK 5
Starters 6
Starters 7
Standard I Vocabulary 8
Atomic Theory Notes 9
Atomic Theory Notes 10
History of the Atom 11
Science Fair 12
Disclosure and Rules Quiz 13
ITM Ch 4 S 2 14
Subatomic Particles & Properties 15
Atom Model Drawing 16
Atomic Structure Worksheet 17
Atomic Theory Quiz 18
Starters 19
Starters 20
Periodic Table 21
BN Atoms and Molecules 22
Atomic Quiz 23
Chemical Reactions Notes 24
Chemical Reactions Notes 25
Chemical Reactions Notes 26
Law of Conservation of Mass 27
Balancing Chemical Equations 28
Starters 29
Starters 30
Atoms and Molecules Test 31
Plastic Scavenger Hunt 32
Atoms and Molecules Booklet 33
States of Matter and Mixtures Notes 34
States of Matter and Mixtures Notes 35
Plastic All Around Us 36
PHET Phase Change Lab 37
States of Matter Worksheet 38
Starters 39
Starters 40
Phases of H2O 41
States of Matter Quiz 42
Heat Notes 43
Heat Notes 44
FME Ch 6 S 2 45
FME Ch 6 S 3 46
Heat Transfer 47
Matter Test 48
FME Ch 2 S 3 49
Standard II Vocab 50
BN Motion 51
Starters 52
Starters 53
Marble Roll Lab 54
Paper Roller Coasters 55
Momentum Worksheet 56
Force & Motion Quiz 57
Wave Formations 58
Spring Waves 59
Drawing Waves I 60
Drawing Waves II 61
Wave Simulation Fun & WebQuest 62
Starters 63
Starters 64
Table of Contents 65
Waves Quiz 66
Making Sound Waves 67
Wave Behavior Doodle 68
Thinking About Light Drawing 69
Force Motion & Waves Test 70
Behavior of Light 71
Exploring Light Properties 72
B.N. Optics 73
Bending Light 74
Sound Waves WebQuest 75
Starters 76
Starters 77
Longitudinal Wave Lab 78
Sound vs Light 79
Light & Sound Quiz 80
Analog & Digital 81
Transmitting Signals 82
Seven Segment Display 83
Sampling & Graphing 84
Analog & Digital Signal Notes 85
Analog & Digital Signal Notes 86
Standard III Vocabulary 87
Plant Time Lapse 88
Lights, Sound, Signals Test 89
Starters 90
Starters 91
How Does Your Garden Grow 92
Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration Notes 93
Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration Notes 94
Life - Plants 95
Photosynthesis Virtual Lab 96
CHC Ch 2 S 2 97
Cellular Respiration Lab 98
Introduction to Ecosystems 99
It's Called Cellular Respiration 100
Energy Flow in Ecosystems 101
Energy Flow in Ecosystems 102
Photosynthesis & Respiration Quiz 103
Matter Cycles 104
Matter Cycles 105
Matter Cycles 106
Starters 107
Starters 108
Biomagnification Notes 109
Biomagnification Notes 110
Biomagnification Notes 111
Resource Distribution & Use Notes 112
Resource Distribution & Use Notes 113
Deer Predation  114
Species Interactions Notes 115
Species Interactions Notes 116
Symbiosis Worksheet 117
Population & Biomagnification Quiz 118
Global Climate Change 119
Global Climate Change 120
Natural Hazards Notes 121
Natural Hazards Notes 122
Natural Hazards Notes 123
Natural Hazards Notes 124
Natural Hazards Notes 125
Resources & Climate Change Quiz 126
Natural Hazards Quiz 127
Yellowstone 128
Starter 129
Ice Age Death Trap 130
 

Posts

Agenda 2/20

 

Thursday, 2/20/2025

Starter: On pages 90 and 91 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         No Starter

Agenda

●         Decades day Dance Feb 28th

Lesson: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Notes

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●          Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration notes on pages 93 & 94 (7th 10, 8th 8, 9th 11)

●         https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nNIa7iy2ibcGn3X-CIxSyw4eXnJMD1Tg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 2/19

 

Wednesday, 2/19/2025

Starter: On pages 90 and 91 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         1. Write “Prepare notebook.” Label pages 90 and 91 as Starters, number pages 91 to 106 with the evens on the left and the odds on the right.

Agenda

●         Decades day Dance Feb 28th

Lesson: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Notes

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●          Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration notes on pages 93 & 94

●         https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nNIa7iy2ibcGn3X-CIxSyw4eXnJMD1Tg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 2/18

 

Tuesday, 2/18/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         (Do not write this) Fill out your notebook check score sheet at the front of your notebook check with today’s date, the notebook check worth and the pages of the notebook check. Then get a green notebook check slip off the front counter and start totaling up your notebook. Condition 4, Score sheet 5, Starters 9, Be the teacher 5, Table of Contents 3 Pages numbered 14, Titles 14, Page content 14 (76-89) Total 68 pts

Agenda

●         Decades day Dance Feb 28th

Lesson: Notebook Check #7

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

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Agenda 2/13

 

Thursday, 2/13/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         9. What are the reactants of Photosynthesis? (If you tell me you don’t know what reactants mean you are perilously close to earning your class vocabulary pop quizzes)

Agenda

●         Midterm Progress Reports due

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Lights, Sounds, Signals Test Corrections

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

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Agenda 2/12

 

Wednesday, 2/12/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         8. Empty the Return Slot (Update the Table of Contents, Tape things into your notebook, anything not picked up will be thrown away at the end of class)

Agenda

●         Midterm Progress Reports due Thursday Feb 13th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Standard III Vocabulary / Plant Time Lapse / How Does Your Garden Grow?

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         Standard III Vocabulary page 87

●         Plant Time Lapse page 88

o    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Z-iPp6yn0hw&ab_channel=mortrek

●         https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Be0xfs8xT-l6bMvFRGdMeBduwfwDQnMa/view?usp=sharing

Agenda 2/11

 

Tuesday, 2/11/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         No Starter

Agenda

●         Midterm Progress Reports due Thursday Feb 13th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Lights, Sound, Signals Test

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

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Agenda 2/7

 

Monday, 2/10/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         7. What kind of signal is Morse code over the telegraph?

Agenda

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Midterm Progress Reports due Thursday Feb 13th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Analog & Digital Signal Notes / Lights, Sound, Signals Test Review

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         Analog & Digital Signals notes pages 85 & 86 (8th 10, 9th 9)

●         https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fT-nmCCCLbhuOZi_lnRBwwgByvX04ZaN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

●         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jvuDVhEm8nkgwBNHtosS4GC7pe8buxPj/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 2/7

 

Friday, 2/7/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         6. Prepare pages 85 & 86 for notes.

Agenda

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Analog & Digital Signal Notes

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         Analog & Digital Signals notes pages 85 & 86 (8th 10, 9th 9)

●         https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fT-nmCCCLbhuOZi_lnRBwwgByvX04ZaN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 2/6

 

Thursday, 2/6/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         5. What system do we rate cameras in?

Agenda

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Sampling & Graphing

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yiLX3w54YghKuQhO8pD7tlm05lW3SEo_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Agenda 2/5

 

Wednesday, 2/5/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         4. What was the oldest method to track time within a day?

Agenda

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Seven Segment Display

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         Link to clocks https://www.mathsisfun.com/time-clocks.html

●         https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vnjf3UncVLJ22Lr7Ner346qhmcIH6zPI/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 2/4

 

Tuesday, 2/4/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         3. How do we convey information to people who are not near to us?

Agenda

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Transmitting Information

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●          Article https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZxyG0yoCvbqKMIIk4QCK00LtNAQei3g/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

●         Homework https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e7TiunQPXYF8ulMk1qIVf80f4w4CGKoE/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112244829939701416426&rtpof=true&sd=true

Agenda 1/31

 

Friday, 1/31/2025

Starter: On pages 76 and 77 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         No Starter

Agenda

●         Wave Machine Extra Credit Due

●         Lights, Sound Signals Test Feb 11th

●         Notebook Check #7 Feb 18th

Lesson: Light & Sound Quiz

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

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Agenda 1/30

 

Thursday, 1/30/2025

Starter: On pages 63 and 64 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         2. How did the density of the material (how close the dominoes were) affect the speed of the wave?

Agenda

●         Wave Machine Extra Credit by Jan 31st

●         Light & Sound Quiz Jan 31st

Lesson: Longitudinal Wave Lab / Sound vs Light

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8zBN8oayS7BECl-5o9j3fM7TkLzVNuB/view?usp=sharing

●         https://drive.google.com/file/d/18wQQMrY4rAjfyQiCrVzhNBFbT5TiJ6Te/view?usp=sharing

Agenda 1/29

 

Wednesday, 1/29/2025

Starter: On pages 63 and 64 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         1. Write “Prepare notebook.” Label pages 76 and 77 as Starters, number pages 76 to 91 with the evens on the left and the odds on the right.

Agenda

●         Wave Machine Extra Credit by Jan 31st

●         Light & Sound Quiz Jan 31st

Lesson: Longitudinal Wave Lab

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

●         https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b8zBN8oayS7BECl-5o9j3fM7TkLzVNuB/view?usp=sharing

Agenda 1/28

 

Tuesday, 1/28/2025

Starter: On pages 63 and 64 write the starter and answer in complete sentences!!!!

●         (Do not write this) Fill out your notebook check score sheet at the front of your notebook check with today’s date, the notebook check worth and the pages of the notebook check. Then get a green notebook check slip off the front counter and start totaling up your notebook. Condition 4, Score sheet 5, Starters 9, Be the teacher 5, Table of Contents 3 Pages numbered 13, Titles 13, Page content 13 (63-75) Total 65 pts

Agenda

●         Wave Machine Extra Credit by Jan 31st

●         Light & Sound Quiz Jan 31st

Lesson: Notebook Check #6

Standard: Matter and Energy interact in the Physical World
Objective: Describe the cause and effect relationship in particle motion, temperature, density and state.

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