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Lesson Plans 2/3 – 2/7

2/3: Bell Ringer; Seven steps to solving word problems in science; Formula triangles; practice problems and STEMscopes assignments 8.6B (content video and questions, e-scopedia, and concept quiz), due by 2/7.

2/4: Bell Ringer (pre-assessment); Breakdown TEKS 8.6C in journals – the students will investigate and describe applications of Newton’s three laws of motion such as in vehicle restraints, sports activities, amusement park rides, Earth’s tectonic activities, and rocket launches and define vocabulary.

2/5: Bell Ringer; ENGAGE activity slides; STEMscopes assignments 8.6C (3 content videos and questions, reading passage with questions, writing assignment, and guided practice worksheet), due by 2/7.

2/6: Bell Ringer; Hacking the 8th Grade Science STAAR test YouTube video; Practice brain dump for Benchmarks next week!

2/7: Bell Ringer; Continue with assignments in STEMscopes, force and motion worksheets, and/or brain dump notes. ALL 8.6B and 8.6C STEMscopes assignments due TODAY!

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Lesson Plans 1/27 – 1/31

1/27: Bell Ringer; Students will demonstrate their performance assessment projects to the class.

1/28: Bell Ringer; Students will continue demonstrations and take self evaluations and peer evaluations of their project experience.

1/29: Half Day

1/30: Force and Motion packets

1/31: Force and Motion packets

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Lesson Plans 1/20 – 1/24

1/20: Martin Luther King Holiday

1/21: Bell Ringer; Performance Assessments DAY 1/4: brainstorm with partner.

1/22: Bell Ringer; Performance Assessments DAY 2/4: get planning and check off with teacher.

1/23: Bell Ringer; Performance Assessments DAY 3/4: get planning and work.

1/24: Bell Ringer; Performance Assessments DAY 4/4: get work completed and turned in.

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Lesson Plans 1/13 – 1/17

1/13: Bell Ringer; 8.6A Pre-Assessment; ENGAGE activity (tennis ball); TEKS breakdown 8.6A – the students will demonstrate and calculate how unbalanced forces change the speed or direction of an object’s motion, and vocabulary: acceleration, at rest, balanced forces, direction, energy, friction, motion, net force, speed, unbalanced force, velocity.

1/14: Bell Ringer; complete vocabulary; STEMscopes video and questions, CLOZE-ing activity, Reading passage, Math connections.

1/15: Bell Ringer; 8.6B Pre-Assessment; TEKS 8.6B breakdown in journals – the students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration, and vocabulary: frame of reference, velocity, acceleration. Calculating speed and velocity worksheets (leave in class).

1/16: Bell Ringer; Calculating speed, velocity, acceleration worksheets and graphing speed vs. time worksheets (leave in class).

1/17: Distance vs. time graphing worksheet, acceleration and gravity parts 1-2 worksheets, force worksheets (2) (leave in class).

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Lesson Plans 1/6 – 1/10

1/6: Teacher Work Day

1/7: Review TEKS 8.10A&B, weather forecast presentations!

1/8: Finish up forecast presentations

1/9: Students will complete PRE-ASSESSMENT 8.10C; TEKS breakdown 8.10C identify the role of the oceans in the formation of weather systems such as hurricanes, and vocabulary in journals –

Weather System, Ocean Currents, Hurricane, Evaporation, Condensation, Wind

1/10: EXPLORE packet (STEMscopes) using NASA videos to explain how hurricanes form.

 

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Lesson Plans 12/16 – 12/20

12/16: Students will complete any outstanding work from last week, turn in weather forecast, and start mid-term review.

12/17: Students will work on mid-term review.

12/18: Exams 4th and 5th periods – early release!

12/19: Exams 1st, 2nd, 6th periods – early release!

12/20: Exams 3rd, 7th, 8th periods – early release!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Lesson Plans 12/9 – 12/13

12/9: Students will create and interpret information from topographic maps.

12/10: TEKS 8.10A breakdown in journals – students will recognize that the Sun provides the energy that drives convection within the atmosphere and oceans, producing winds and vocabulary: Thermal Energy, Atmosphere, Wind, Air Pressure, Conduction, Convection, Coriolis Effect, Anemometer, Solar Radiation

12/11: Students will rotate through stations using anemometers, sling psychrometer, thermometer, barometer, rain gauge, wind sock.

12/12: TEKS 8.10B breakdown in journals – students will identify how global patterns of atmospheric movement influence local weather using weather maps that show high and low pressures and fronts and vocabulary: Weather, Atmospheric Movement, Air Pressure, Barometer, Humidity, Air Masses, High/Low Pressure, Warm/Cold Front

12/13: Students will become meteorologists for a day and create their own weather forecast using iMovie.

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Lesson Plans 12/2 – 12/6

12/2: Vocabulary Flashcards

12/3: Complete flashcards; Review lab activity on plate tectonics

12/4: QUIZ 8.9AB

12/5: UIL in Gladewater

12/6: Intro to topographic maps; TEKS 8.9C breakdown – Students will interpret topographic maps and satellite views to identify land and erosional features and predict how these features may be reshaped by weathering, and complete vocabulary:

Topographic Map

Elevation

Contour Lines

Contour Interval

Index Contour

Erosional Features (weathering, erosion, deposition)

Satellite Views

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Lesson Plans 11/18 – 11/22

11/18: Bell Ringer; PRE-ASSESSMENT 8.9 AB; TEKS breakdown 8.9 (AB) The students will describe the historical development of evidence that supports plate tectonic theory and relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features; and vocabulary in journals

  • Plate Tectonic Theory
  • Lithosphere
  • Asthenosphere
  • Convection Currents
  • Continental Drift
  • Fossils
  • Sea Floor Spreading Evidence
  • Divergent Boundary
  • Convergent Boundary
  • Subduction
  • Ocean Trench
  • Transform Boundary

11/19: Bell Ringer; complete breakdown and vocabulary;  ENGAGE activity Continental Drift; begin setup for EXPLORE activity

11/20: Bell Ringer; EXPLORE activity

11/21: Bell Ringer; EXPLORE activity

11/22: Bell Ringer; complete EXPLORE activity and packet;