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I hope that your summer has been a restful and enjoyable one, as we embark on our eighth grade journey to learn and explore new concepts and ideas in the coming months. Meanwhile, if you are planning to come prepared … Continue reading →

Study Guide Here is a set of questions that will help you to prepare for our upcoming final exam. Identify and label parts of a wave. Identify a wave on an oscilloscope based on the wave’s frequency, pitch, and amplitude … Continue reading →

Students: Below you will find a two-page attachment that will give you further review and practice on our topic of fossils so that you will be much better prepared for our final exam. Fossils Review Page 1 Fossils Review Page … Continue reading →

Students make sure that you have completed your 2 foldables on the following vocabulary in Sections 3.3 and 3.4 that starts on page 70 and 74 respectively. Section 3.3 Absolute Dating Isotope Radioactive Decay Radiometric Dating Daughter Isotope Half-Life Parent … Continue reading →

Study Guide Here is a set of questions that will help you to prepare for our upcoming final exam. Identify and label parts of a wave. Identify a wave on an oscilloscope based on the wave’s frequency, pitch, and amplitude … Continue reading →

A small group of so-called scientists have attempted to put together a geological column that is based on similar rock layers with same fossils (different shapes) embedded in them. Click on and view the attachment below! Geological Column 2 Geological … Continue reading →

Students make sure that you have completed the following 2 foldables by Thursday that are based on the concepts that we have learned and discussed in Section 3.2: Relative Dating. Definition Foldable #1 Chapter 3 Section 2   Relative Dating … Continue reading →

Students: Make sure that you have completed your homework assignment on Section 3.2: Relative Dating: Which Came First? Tomorrow, it will be corrected and graded by your classmates. Since it is Ramadan, honesty will be easy to reinforce, as we did … Continue reading →

Here is the list of vocabulary terms if you did not finish in class: James Hutton Charles Lyell Paleobotanist Paleontology Uniformitarianism Catastrophism Vertebrate Paleontologist Invertebrate Paleontologist *Gradualism *Punctuated Equilibrium Gradualism: The hypothesis that evolution proceeds mainly by the accumulation of … Continue reading →

Congratulations to many of you who have done a good job on this summative evaluation. There were 39 A’s and 23 B’s and several C’s. Keep up the good work, as we enter the final stretch home with Chapter 3: The … Continue reading →