Friday Class

Today in science we continue to work on gathering the need to know's for this design challenge. Here is today's procedure:

1. Finish the rock layer lab on oil wells that was begun yesterday.

2. Grab a print out of the geological time scale.

3. Use the following program to view information on each of the time periods. Please find the appropriate handouts for each time period that you will complete as you watch the videos. Most time period handouts have actual fossils for you to view.

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Please Click Here For A Old Road Map that has copies of all the handouts!

Wednesday Class

Today we start to dive into the next design challenge!

Design Challenge:

• Design an original and engaging board game for 8th graders that incorporates fossils, earth history, and math.

Project Idea:

• Students will create a game that will be used in the 8th grade for MEAP review of content related to fossils and how life has changed on our planet over time. Relevant math and language arts content will be included. Students will gather information the first week, interpret the second, and build the third. Games will be given to current 8th graders to write critical reviews.

After the introduction...students started our need to knows for the GATHER stage of the project.



We then began a lab on rock layers! Click Here to Access That Lab!

Tuesday Science Class

Today in science we finished watching a documentary called Super Croc. This video is used as a "entry event" to the upcoming project on fossils that we really start diving into tomorrow!

Check out this NG website on this amazing animal!

Thursday Class

Today students took the ACT EXPLORE test!!!!! Thanks for everyone's efforts!

In science we see half the students today and the other half tomorrow.

We had a time of wrap-up for some students who still needed it. We also started getting us thinking about the next topic and design challenge...fossils!

Here is a short teaser:

Wednesday Class

Today in science we had final assessments on the effects of population and human impact on ecosystems....

Tomorrow we have the ACT explore test...

Next Design Challenge involves fossils!!!!

Monday Class

Today in science we continue to finish the product creation for Art Trash 2013!

Tomorrow we will work on displaying our products so...today is the last work day.

Click here to access the document on creating your artist statement.