What a busy and fun week it has been here at HJ. All week students have been participating in spirit week here at school. Each day has given the kids an opportunity to dress up and show their school spirit. Yesterday we were able to participate in an exciting pep rally and the 8th grade WON FOR THE MOST SCHOOL SPIRIT!! They will get to have a fun party on Friday with Mr. Wallace!! Students also took their Pre-Assessment for our new science unit on Ecosystems. Today, students are taking their Fall Reading Benchmark Assessment.
Tomorrow, we will start to dive into the Ecosystems unit and students will use a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to take notes from a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION. Next week we will have a whole line of activities lined up to show limiting factors, population density and much more. I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween weekend! See you next week!
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This week we will be focusing on cell structures and processes and more specifically photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Today, students will be taking FILL-IN-THE-BLANK NOTES from a POWERPOINT ON CELL PROCESSES. We will continue taking these notes tomorrow in class as well.
Students also received their last set of vocab for the Molecular Biology unit (see below for the words). These will be due Friday and we will take a quiz Friday on these words. Make sure you are studying. Check in all week for updates on what activities we will have going on each day! VOCAB DUE 10/16 mitosis meiosis glucose ATP cellular respiration photosynthesis eukaryote prokaryote Happy Tuesday everyone! I hope everyone has been staying dry the last few days! This rainy weather is making me so sleepy these days! Fortunately, we have lots of science work to keep us busy!
Yesterday we started right in on our new unit on Molecular Biology. Students were shown a POWERPOINT PRESENTATION on human health and they had a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to fill out and take notes on during the presentation. New vocab words were given out (see below). These are due Friday, October 2nd. Be sure to study for the quiz too! Today we worked on a literacy assignment. Students read an ARTICLE ON HEALTHY LIVING and had several questions to answer at the end. Some of these questions required them to recall what they read and some of the required them to analyze and synthesize their reading. If this assignment was not finished before the end of class then it was assigned as homework and is due tomorrow. VOCAB DUE 10/2/15 calorie digestion metabolism basal metabolic rate (BMR) lipid protein carbohydrate Today we started a new topic in the Structures and Functions of Living Organisms unit.....BIOTECHNOLOGY!! This topic always tends to be one of the more interesting topic for students. They really seem to get into it and love to debate about the different topics.
We are starting our week with a POWERPOINT ON BIOTECHNOLOGY. Students are required to take FILL IN THE BLANK NOTES that go along with the presentation. Students also received their new vocab words for the week. These will be due on Friday and we will be taking a quiz Friday on these words. VOCAB WORDS DUE 9/18 biotechnology genetics gene cloning genetic modification ethical bio-remediation toxic I am looking forward to the great conversations this topic will produce throughout the week! Have a great night! Hey there everyone! We have successfully made it half way through the first week of school! I am excited to see where this year leads us.
On this rainy Wednesday, students started taking their first set of notes. They were required to fill in a GRAPHIC ORGANIZER while listening to a PowerPoint Presentation about Pathogens and Disease. We didn't finish the entire presentation today so we will pick up where we left off tomorrow. DON'T FORGET: Your vocab is due FRIDAY!! You have a quiz on that set of words FRIDAY as well! See yesterday's post for directions on how to set up your notebook and for the list of words you need. Have a wonderful evening. See you bright and early! Today, students took their last set of notes for the year on Energy. We learned all about the different forms of energy, different energy transformations, and also about the different types of renewable and nonrenewable energy resources. Please see below for the PPT notes and a copy of the student notes for their notebooks. Tomorrow we will finish up our station activity on energy and then move into starting a project to finish out the unit.
Have a great day! ENERGY POWERPOINT NOTES Student Note Sheet Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend! Today, students took their quiz on last week's vocab and received their new words for this week (see below). We also took time today to take our last set of notes for this unit. These notes were all about water pollution and where it comes from. See below for links to the PowerPoint and the student notes. Tomorrow we are getting started on a week long project to finish out this unit. Check in to see what it will be all about!
NOTES: Water Pollution Student Note Sheet NEW VOCAB DUE Monday 4/27/15 Point-source pollution Non-Point-source pollution Water quality Pesticides Herbicides Stewardship Water treatment Clean Water Act Safe Drinking Act Quick update today everyone! Today, we worked on taking notes on water quality. Students put the graphic organizer in their notebooks to be able to study them at home. You can find the links to the PowerPoint and student notes below.
Don't forget to be working on your vocab words that are due on Monday. You will have a quiz on them! Have a wonderful evening and see you tomorrow! Water Quality PowerPoint Water Quality Student Note Sheet Today students took notes on 8.E.1.2. This part of the unit explores the oceans, marine ecosystems, and estuaries. We used this POWERPOINT to take notes on this GRAPHIC ORGANIZER. Students glued these notes into their notebooks so they can study them at home.
Remember to stay ahead of your new vocab words. If you get them done this week you won't have anything to do over the break for science class! Take a look at the diagrams below to learn more about what today's lesson was on. Today, students took these NOTES (click to download student notes for notebooks) on the distribution of water. We used this PREZI to take notes from that has some great videos built in that gave us a closer look at the hydrosphere right here in North Carolina! I think students began to have that "eye opening" experience when it came to our water resources and how they need to be protected.
Tomorrow we will be working on a lab about water properties. Have a great evening!! Happy Tuesday! Today, students took NOTES (slides 36-42) on our last section of the Ecosystem Unit. We focused on the Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, and Water Cycle. We also glued in diagrams for each cycle into our notebooks and color coded them to help us study.
DON'T FORGET!!! TONIGHT IS HJM'S OPEN HOUSE FROM 6-7 PM. COME ON OUT AND SEE WHAT YOUR KIDS ARE DOING IN 8TH GRADE! SEE YOU THERE! Hey there everyone! An update from yesterday and today's activities in Science. Yesterday, we kicked off our Ecosystem unit with our first set of notes. These notes covered the organization of ecosystems, limiting factors, and carrying capacity. You can find the PowerPoint in it's entirety HERE, keep in mind yesterday's notes only covered slides 1-20. We will cover the rest of the PPT tomorrow and next week. Click HERE for a copy of the fill-in-the-blank notes for your notebooks. Today students worked on completing a packet that reinforced what we learned yesterday. The packet contained the following items: Limiting Factors Activity Niche vs. Habitat (courtesy of https://sciencewithmsbarton.wordpress.com/) Abiotic vs. Biotic Factors The following video should be watched in order to complete the Niche vs. Habitat page: Students were required to complete the packet in class and any work they did not finish should have gone home for homework. The homework should be turned in tomorrow for a grade.
Have a wonderful evening and I will see you back here tomorrow! Happy Monday! Today students took FILL-IN-THE-BLANK NOTES from a POWERPOINT on healthy living. They also received their STUDY GUIDE for the benchmark test on Friday and classroom test on Monday. Be sure to be studying for these assessments and get the study guide done, it is due Thursday.
Just a reminder that your vocab is due tomorrow. Be sure to get that completed! Also, the high school curriculum fair is TONIGHT!! It is important that you attend this open house to get important information about your high school classes. See you tomorrow! Greetings all! I hope you have had a great week so far. Yesterday and today we took notes on cells, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and cell division. You can find the PowerPoint by clicking HERE and the fill-in-the-blank notes HERE. We also began working on making corrections on the benchmark test we took last week. The guidelines for making corrections are as follows:
FOR EACH QUESTION YOU GOT WRONG: 1. Write the question 2. Write the incorrect answer you chose 3. Write the correct answer 4. Explain why your answer is wrong or why the correct answer is right REMINDER: You are allowed to make corrections on any test or quiz we take in class. Just correct the ones you got wrong and fill out THIS form and get it signed by a parent. Turn it in for extra credit on that test or quiz. Have a great day everyone! See you tomorrow. Happy Wednesday everyone! We started our short week off with the Reading Benchmark exam today which made all of our classes a bit shorter. We started off class with our vocab quiz. We then moved to taking some notes in our interactive notebooks. We did not get finished with these notes but will continue them tomorrow. You can find a copy of the fill-in-the-blank notes HERE. You can find the PowerPoint we for this unit HERE.
Tomorrow we will work on finishing up the notes and working with some assessment type questions to help prepare for the next Science benchmark. Ta ta for now! Today students received notes on pathogens and disease. We looked at a PowerPoint (adapted from a file found at missj12biol.wikispaces.com) presentation and students filled in NOTES that go in their notebooks. Use these notes to help you study.
Students also were given an assignment that had them look at data from different flu pandemics and answer questions about it and draw a graph from the data. You can find that paper HERE (courtesy of http://sciencewithmsbarton.wordpress.com/). REMINDER: Progress reports went home today. Please make sure to get them signed and brought back tomorrow! Hey there everyone! I hope you have all had a great week so far! Tuesday and Wednesday students took some notes on evolution, natural selection, and more. They worked really hard and I was impressed with the great class discussions we had in each class and all of the awesome questions students were asking. You can find the PowerPoint I adapted for my class HERE. You can also grab a copy of the fill-in-the-blank notes the students used for their interactive notebooks HERE.
Today and tomorrow students will be working in groups to complete a WebQuest on the evidence for evolution on the PBS website. You can find that website HERE. Don't forget about your vocabulary words that are due on Monday. You also have a quiz that day on those words. Have a great rest of the week! Hey there science people! I hope everyone had a relaxing and fun Halloween weekend! Who else is on sugar overload??? In science class today, students took their vocab quiz on last week's words and received the last set of vocab words for the Earth History Unit. These words will be due next week on Wednesday (11/12) and we will take a vocab quiz that day as well. We also took notes on the last section of the Earth History Unit on the geologic time scale and the different Eras of time. See below for a link to the entire Earth History Unit Powerpoint. Students were also given an assignment to assign major geological and biological events to the correct Era of time. This cut-and-paste activity is due back in class completed tomorrow. See below for a link to that as well.
Hello everyone! This week we have hit the ground running with our Earth History Unit. The past couple of days in class we have spent time taking notes on fossils, relative age, absolute age, and dating rocks and fossils. Today we started working on a stations activity where students will read about different ways to date rocks and fossils and answer some questions about each reading at the station. At their tables, students were given time to read quietly and then participate in a Round Robin style conversation about how to answer the questions. Students were directed to come up with an agreed upon consensus of what the answer to each question was and write that on their paper. All of my students did a fabulous job with that activity and I am looking forward to finishing that up tomorrow in class. Below you will find a link to the powerpoint presentation I am using for this unit as well as the fill-in-the-blank notes we have used so far.
Don't forget that your vocabulary words are due MONDAY 10/27/14 and you will be having a quiz over these words that day! Have a wonderful evening. Tomorrow is FRIDAY!! YAY! Earth History PowerPoint Part 1 - Fossils and Relative Age student notes Part 2 - Absolute Age student notes Greetings everyone! I hope you all are enjoying the fall-like temperatures we have been having! Yesterday students received their last set of vocabulary words for our chemistry unit. See below for this list of words; they are due Monday in the correct format in their vocab notebooks. Today, we began discussing physical & chemical properties & change. We took some notes using a fill-in-the-blank graphic organizer and then we focused on literacy with a reading on physical properties and change. Students will be required to complete the questions for this reading for homework this evening. See below for a copy of this reading assignment as well as today's PPT. Happy Tuesday!!
Hey there everyone! Today was an awesome-ly fantastic day in science! We learned about acids, bases, and the pH scale. We started the day off with taking some notes in our interactive notebook. See below for the link to the powerpoint and the fill in the blank notes for your notebooks. Afterwards, we moved on to our pH lab where my students were able to test 3 different mystery solutions with red and blue litmus paper to see if they were an acid, base or neutral solution. I have to say, all of my classes did a great job with this investigation and I think they had a great time doing it too! I have also put a link below of the lab report. Checkout the pictures to see my students in action!
Students also received their Periodic Table/Element, Compound, Mixture TEST back today. Don't forget, if you want to make a better grade on the test be sure to pick up a copy of the "Request to Fix a Test" paper in my classroom. Fill it out, follow the directions and return it to me to get extra credit on the test. Need a copy, click the link below. REMINDER: Tonight is HJM's spaghetti dinner OPEN HOUSE! Please come on out and see your teachers! Have a great day everyone! Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! LINKS: Acid/Base Powerpoint Acid/Base fill in notes pH Lab Report Request to Fix a Test Paper After me being absent for a few days we are finally back into the swing of things! I always hate being out but sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do. Yesterday, students took their vocabulary quiz on atoms, elements, compounds, and mixtures. They also received their new set of vocabulary words for this week. See below for the words and details for the next quiz. Today, we dove right in to the Periodic Table of Elements (PTE). We took some notes, colored the PTE, and for homework students will be required to do some reading and answer questions. Need any of these resources? See below for the links. We will be working with the PTE for the rest of this week and part of next and then moving on to chemical and physical properties of matter. I am looking forward to seeing how well my students do with this subject! Stay tuned for information on an upcoming test on what we have learned so far! Have a great day!!!
Hey there everyone!! I hope you are all have a fantastic week! Yesterday and today students in my science classes took notes in their interactive notebooks on atoms, elements, compounds, and mixtures.. They did an awesome job with this task. While I showed a powerpoint presentation, students were engaged in filling in the missing blanks from their set of notes.
Need these resources? CLick the links below. Atoms, Elements, Compounds, & Mixtures PPT Fill-in-the-blank Notes for part one of PPT (atoms) Fill-in-the-blank Notes for part two of PPT (elements, compounds, and mixtures) |
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