Category: 8.06

2/17: President’s Day Holiday

2/18: Bell Ringer, Speed, Velocity, Acceleration Review

2/19: Bell Ringer, Newton’s Laws Review

2/20: Unit Exam – Force and Motion

2/21: Bell Ringer, Unit Exam retakes, data review

 

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!

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

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.

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).