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Long Weekend

1/24/2019

Continue to work on your Cells and Systems journal page. Include the following key concepts. Take some time to relax and recharge over the long weekend!

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Every group should be prepared to present their Body Systems project on Monday, January 21st

Complete Math Page 460 #6, 7,8,9

Science in the News presenters should select an article for their presentations.

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First Week Back

1/9/2019

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Math
This week we have been reviewing volume and surface area to ease back into math after the break. We have also started our Geometry Unit and students have been practicing drawing 2D views of 3D shapes.
Homework - Complete Rectangular Prism (volume and TSA) sheet for Friday, Jan. 11

Science
Students can continue to work on their research for the Body System group project. Each group has been assigned a specific body system to research and build a 3D model representation. The project outline is posted on the website (unders Cells and Systems). Remember if your group plans on purchasing materials for your project, the limit is $10 per group. Try to use recyclable items from home (cardboard boxes, plastic bags, balloons etc.)

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Last week before Holidays!

12/13/2018

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My last week

As I told the kids at the beginning of the year and over the last couple of weeks, my contract as temporary coverage for the math/sci grade 8 is coming to a close. It has been a pleasure getting to know all of the students in 108 and 102. Thank you to all for the learning experience. I know you all will continue on to have an awesome rest of the year with the wonderful Mrs. Shaw. :-)

Solstice

Make sure you have considered what you are bringing for solstice and get those plates, cutlery, and cups in or you'll be eating with your hands!

Science

The first verbal response is due by the end of the day on Monday, Dec. 17th.

There is a second verbal response that will be due by the end of the week (can still be submitted into the holidays)

Experiment day!

This Wednesday will be an active laboratory investigation that goes into a lot of the biological concepts we have been going over these passed 3 weeks, including a frog dissection! So come to class prepared on Wednesday to get your inner scientist out to play.

Math

Volume practice is due on Monday, Dec. 17th. We will now be working collaboratively in class for word problems relating to surface area and volume.

Videos from this week

Water Poisoning

Limits to Cell Size

Amoeba vs. Paramecium

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This Weeks Activities

12/11/2018

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Math - Surface Area

We are trucking along with surface area of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and cylinders.

On Friday by the end of the day, all 3 practice booklets will be due.

We are also starting volume of these shapes on Wednesday, so it will be in the student's best interest to not leave it until Friday.

Science - Verbal Responses

Students will be completing a verbal response that they will record and post to their Iris accounts.

Verbal Responses

Verbal responses will be recorded and posted to the student’s Iris accounts.

Requirements of Responses:

Voice is enthusiastic and clear:
- I.e. watch your mumbling, ums, likes
Student is using precise language to express their ideas
Student has made a clear choice in opinion and uses compelling evidence to support that opinion
Evidence makes connections with curricular concepts and is logical

Response 1:

Similar structures for different functions

Look at the finch beaks from your notes booklet. Cut out and paste the food in the chart section you think the beak is most suited for.

To justify the response, you must describe (observe) the beak’s features and infer what that means about its feeding ability.

You will be graded on:

Communication - your ability to communicate your ideas clearly, and
Analyze and Solve - your ability to solve problems using scientific reasoning.

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Happy December

12/3/2018

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Math

We are diving head first into calculating Surface Area of cubes, rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, and cylinders this week. This will lead in to calculating volume of said shapes, which we will begin next week.

This will amount to a lot of practice work to develop efficient computation. We will end the week off with using this knowledge to solve a real world problem!

Science

Biology is here! We will begin with an analysis on life and cells of the animal and plant variety.

This will lead to a mini project to analyze functions of the different parts of cells. Look for more info on that next week. In addition, we will be looking at current events in science where each student will choose an article that interests them and formulate a presentation which will be carried out in the last week before winter break.

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What's coming up next week

11/16/2018

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Make sure these assignments are complete:

The solubility labs should be completed and I should have a hard copy.

The Pythagorean exemplar booklets (example problems from the levels work sheets) should also be handed in.

Math

We have reviewed all we know of 2D shapes and will be practicing applying these skills to practical problems in the coming week.
This is the basis for our work with 3D shapes and their properties!

Science

Coming up next week is the final wrap up to our chemistry unit.

There will be a practical quiz on Friday, Nov. 23rd that will encompass our last concepts: Viscosity, Density, and Buoyancy. In addition, we will be carrying out a viscosity investigation (using our "sparkling water") and a Buoyancy Challenge!

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Update

11/6/2018

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We have a major lab report due on the horizon

On Monday Nov. 12th, the solubility/temperature lab report will be due in a hard copy. In all, the kids have had 3 work periods totally over 3hrs to complete this lab. It is being typed up on a google document so if parents would like to check it out, feel free to help edit.

There is an extensive rubric to help with expectations for each section and I have a checklist that resides on the board to help with the calculation and hypothesis sections (see the picture below).

Down with Pythagorus, Go 3D shapes GO!

We are rounding out the Pythagorean Theorem unit this week and we will be beginning our geometry unit. This will begin with review of 2D objects vocabulary, area, and perimeter.

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Extra Practice

10/10/2018

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If you feel you need some more practice, check out the square rooting practice at this web page (you will need to scroll down):

Square Rooting Mental Math

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Hope the long weekend was refreshing

10/9/2018

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Math Review

These are the 5 things you should know:

Know your perfect square numbers i.e. 1, 4, 9. 16...
Know how to provide evidence if a number is a perfect square number or not
1. The square root of a number is a natural number
2. The side length of a square with the area of the number is a natural number
3. The number has an odd number of factors due to one of the factor pairs being a number multiplied by itself
Know these key words and what they mean: perfect square number, squaring, square rooting, inverse operations, factors
Know how to estimate the square root of a number to within +/- 0.1 decimal point of the actual answer (without the use of a calculator)
Know how to use method 1 to estimate the side length of a square

A review booklet was given out today. Extra practice can be found on p. 30 of the textbook (all questions).

Looking at Solubility

Continuing on in our notes, we will be further analyzing what it means to be a homogenous solution.

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Long Weekend

Weekend Reminders

First Week Back

Last week before Holidays!

My last week

Solstice

Science

Experiment day!

Math

Videos from this week

This Weeks Activities

Math - Surface Area

Science - Verbal Responses

Happy December

Math

Science

What's coming up next week

Make sure these assignments are complete:

Math

Science

Update

We have a major lab report due on the horizon

Down with Pythagorus, Go 3D shapes GO!

Extra Practice

Hope the long weekend was refreshing

Math Review

Looking at Solubility

Math

Science