Science Classroom Connection

“Greetings-

I wanted to share this opportunity to assist DPS students in receiving a free coat from Molina Health Care. The email below and attached flyer have all the information on how to pre-register for a coat. Hopefully, this will help those in need of a warm apparel for the winter. Please share.

Thank you for your partnership for the 2017 Molina HOPE Coat Drive. I am pleased to report that your outreach is working, and our pre-registration numbers are rising quickly. That being said, I wanted to gently remind you to please encourage your participants to register ASAP to guarantee a coat. While we will do our best to keep registration open until November 13^th as previously communicated, if we reach capacity we will need to close it. At that point, all remaining people will be given coats on a first come/first serve basis on December 2^nd at Second Ebenezer Church and coats cannot be guaranteed.

Again, people can register at www.molinahealthcare.com/HOPE. If they do not have computer access, they may call 248.729.4923 and their request will be addressed as quickly as possible.”

Since the classroom teacher has been absent, the test retake have been rescheduled to be done in each of the regular student’s hour. For example, if you signed up for the retake and you are in my first hour, then you retake will be done during first hour, and so on.

For ONLY those who took the initiative and signed up by Monday, the 16th of October 2017 will be granted the retake; the rest of the students will simply move on with the subject matter.

Note that upon the return of classroom teacher, the retake day and date will be assigned, prior to the ending of the marking period. 

For all our interested parents, please see the attachment below regarding, “Increasing achievement and decreasing discipline issues with effective Parent Talk.” We encourage all parents to join and attend regularly to further benefit their children throughout the school year and beyond.

Students are to read pages 44-50 on Newton’s Laws of Motion in the textbook titled Forces, Motion, and Energy that can be found on Google classroom. Students are to create their Cornell Notes in their notebooks using the following essential question:

Describe, illustrate, and give an example on each of Newton’s three laws of motion.

This assignment will be scored as a formative grade, as a means of preparation for a project on the same material to be explained at a later date.

Students will be evaluated upon our study of matter in terms of its physical and chemical properties, as well as its physical and chemical changes. This will encompass our study of the concepts and/or ideas about the behavior of matter, as well as the properties of acids, bases, and pH/pOH. Furthermore, students will be assessed upon their learning skills of balancing chemical reactions into chemical equations, as well as identifying the type of each reaction.

What to study? What to study? What to study?

1) Students are very highly recommended to study their classroom notes that also include  our class demonstrations and homework assignments.

2) Students are to study the key concepts and ideas on pages 200-223 in our online General Science textbook that were selectively reinforced by our class demonstrations.

3) Students are to study the end of each section review, because there are a series of reinforcement review questions to help them determine how well they understand the ideas and concepts in each section. Go over ALL of those that were assigned as a review.

4) Students are to check the iblog for any previous and pertinent attachments that are related to our recent work on matter, since the classroom teacher has informed the students that they are responsible for any posting and to stay up-to-date on the iblog postings.

5) See attachment below:

8TH GRADE GENERAL SCIENCE REVIEW QUESTIONS

Students, use the link below (copy and paste it into your web browser) if you feel you need more practice. This means you can practice until your heart is content!

https://www.chembuddy.com/?left=balancing-stoichiometry-questions&right=balancing-questions

Students feel free to print and practice on balancing the chemical reactions in the attachment below.

Practice Balancing Equations!

Applications are due by Wednesday, Nov.15th. This should be a fun learning experience for all ages! Students get involved with good health practices, starting with natural, home (school) grown foods!  Good luck! (check out the success stories)

https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/schools/programs/school-garden-grant-program   

https://www.wholekidsfoundation.org/about/school-success-stories/

Students will be evaluated upon the various concepts and/or ideas that we have learned about the scientific method. On Monday, students who have continued to be on-task have had an opportunity to review the many concepts that are based upon the scientific method, while those that dilly-dallied have to work on them at home and study them.

The list includes objective, observation, hypothesis, procedure, data, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, conclusion, inference, model, theory, law, independent variable (experimental variable), dependent variable, controlled variable (constant variable), peer review, mass, volume, density, and triple beam balance among others.