Science Test!

Science Test Wednesday!  Study resources on D2L.  In addition your study I would like you to complete the following review questions.

Complete the tasks on the skill practice page.
Page 90 #1, 2, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18a, 21, 22b,c,

Hum work for the weekend

Students have started their Renaissance Change Makers project (yellow handout). Students will need to complete all of their research today and over the weekend. On Monday and Tuesday they will have a total of 3 periods to complete a visual representation of their change maker/topic.

Your Task:  chose a change maker within the Renaissance and complete a biography of that person, and also use this biography task as a way to summarize and present your knowledge of the Renaissance as it relates to the person and topic of interest to you.

Some of the Questions will you need to answer:

What impact or influence on Renaissance worldview did this individual have?

What impact or influence on our worldview today did this individual have?

What importance did this individual have during the Renaissance?

What importance did this individual have on our life today?

What qualities did they have which made them a Renaissance man or woman?

Were they truly great in what they accomplished? Why? How so?

Their greatest contribution in shaping the worldview of the Renaissance was…

Their greatest contribution in shaping the worldview of western worldview was….

Use the Research Fact finding questions to help guide your research 

1. Full name of your person _________________________
2. Date of birth and death  ________________________  
3. Place of birth _____________________
4. Status:  married, how many children, ?
5. Education background, where were they educated?
6. Occupation _____________
7. Find 10 Trivia facts about this Renaissance man or woman.
8. Find a 4 pictures of this person and include details for each picture
9. What did this person do that was important in the Renaissance?

-  What qualities did they have? 

10. List the work of arts, inventions, books written, etc…
11.  Find pictures of the works of art, inventions, books, etc.
12. Was this person accepted at the time for their Renaissance views, inventions, works of art or were they challenged by someone or some authority that did not like what they did?  Explain this.
13. Select their best work of art you consider had the most impact, influence and significance in the Renaissance. Give reasons for your choice. Why do you consider this person as having the greatest contribution in shaping the worldview of the western world?
14.   Keep track of your References.

REFERENCING HELP

A reference on your source sheet should look like:

Author’s last name, first name (if known). “Title of Article or Page”. Date of publication or last revision (if known). Name of organization / company. Date you accessed the website.                                                                                                                   Website URL.

Example:

“Big Apple History.” 2005. Educational Broadcasting Corporation.  Aug. 23, 2006 

     http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/index-flash.html

Newman, Alexander.  "Smart Animals."  2006.  National Geographic for Kids.  November 23, 2014

     http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids

So a handy guide for sourcing is:

What is the authors name?
What is title of the article / page?
What is the date it was published or last revised?
What is the name of the organization or company of the article / page?
What is the date you accessed the website?
What is the website URL?

Upcoming assessment

Science

On Wednesday December 17 there will be a Mix and Flow of matter unit assessment.  Students should be reviewing unit concepts at home.  I have posted some study material that would be helpful on D2L.  

Math

Tonight's homework in MathLinks 8 page 52 #10-18.  The textbook is posted on D2L.  

Science and Math Update & Hum today

Math
In math we have been investigating two term ratios.  In class students measured their height and wing span to find their own height to wing span ratio.  We created a bar graph of the class data to make some generalization about height to wing span ratios.

For practice tonight students need to complete MathLinks 8 page 51 #1-9.

Science
In science we have been investigating pressure and how pressure can be used to do useful work in fluid systems such as a car lift.  Students were asked to complete the following calculations for homework tonight.

A hydraulic lift has 1000 N applied to an input piston that has an area of 30 cm2.
a)  What is the pressure excreted on the liquid by the input piston?
b)  If the force were doubled, what would be the pressure?
c)  If the area were reduced to 15 cm2, what would be the pressure?

Hum
- completed a chapter 4 and 5 quiz (the exchange of ideas and the age of exploration)
- had one full class period to work on our picture books (The Age of Exploration - desire or means) - due tomorrow

Thursday, Dec. 4

Humanities:
- Review chapter 4 of the text
- think about which renaissance man or woman you would like to do a project about, why, what would you like to create and how would you do it

Homework

Math

Students need to complete one of the following assignments for homework tonight

Adding and subtracting Fractions
MathLinks 7 page 260 #10, 11, 17, 21

OR

Order of Operations with Fractions
MathLinks 8 page 234 #4-9

Upcoming Assessments

There are assessments in both math and science this week.  Tomorrow, Tuesday December 2, there is a science quiz on viscosity, density, and buoyancy.  On  Thursday December 4 there is a math Operations with Fractions unit Test.  The Review sheet for math is below.

Hum HMWK: Renaissance Discoveries

1. Please make sure all CSIs are completed in your journals.

Heresy   Scientific Method   Astronomy   Anatomy   Astrology   Geometry   Algebra   Perspective

2. The Renaissance worldview encouraged making direct observations and experimenting to learn about the world. What discoveries were made as a result of this attitude?

Refer to your CSIs you created in your journals and pages 79 – 87 in the text.

- Use a chart, or some other way, to organize your ideas in your journals.

- Have at least 3 innovators and their discoveries for each of the three disciplines.

Discipline          Innovator                 Discovery

Science N. Copernicus             - earth rotated around a stationary sun

Medicine

Mathematics

Class today

Science

In class we are currently discussion the concepts of density, average density and buoyancy.  For homework students should complete the following:

- Read pages 59-63
- Define Buoyancy, and Buoyant force
- Can you think of a force that would act in opposition to a buoyant force?
- In your OWN words explain the concept of average density.
- The textbook provided two examples of average density from real life ( a fish's swim bladder and a submarine) provide your own real life example of average density in action.

Math

We are coming to the end of our unit on multiplying and dividing fractions.  Lately students have been working on solving problems that involve fractions.  For homework students are to complete the first 3 steps of the problem solving process for questions 1-9 on their word problems handout.

Problem Solving Process
1.  What is being asked of me?

2. Organize relevant information.

3.  Make a plan.

4.  Carry out your plan.

5.  Does your answer make sense?  Check your work.

6.  Answer the question that was asked.

Boys' Night

Humanities work for the weekend :-)

1. Please make sure the Ebola perspectives journaling task is complete. Only 5 were handed in as of Thursday.

2. My Code of Long Life and Wisdom - journal page was to be finished for Thursday. Again, only 5 journals were handed in.

3. Complete the Humanism questions up to and including 19. We will review answers on Monday and complete the persuasive paragraph in class on Monday.

4. Read your home reading novel. We will have a D.I.R.T. response next week.

Humanities - Wednesday, Nov. 19

1. Students should have completed their Ebola journal page: perspectives (diary entry). The task is on D2L.

2. Today we began our unit on Humanism. This is connected to Chapter 3 in the Social Studies textbook. The textbook is on D2L. Students began work on an overview booklet that focuses on the key concepts related to Humanism (blue in colour, but the original is on D2L).

3. We worked through part of the booklet, however students completed a journal page regarding: My Code of Long Life and Wisdom. This journal page is due tomorrow. Students need to complete their own code of life (in comparison to a FN and Humanistic PofV on page 61 of the textbook)
- (5 statements (or more), with visuals, a border and background)

Homework

FAIRY TALES

Today was the final day to work on our fairy tale stations. Most students handed in their first task last week, and tomorrow their second task is to be done and brought to class. We will use some time tomorrow to peer and self edit and revise one of the story tasks. Each student will receive a checklist for their overall writing (content, organization, sentence structure, vocabulary, conventions) and how they incorporated fairy tale elements.

Ebola article

We read an article regarding Ebola. We will continue this work tomorrow.

Math

Complete the 3 multiplying improper fractions questions from the board. I failed to save the questions from the board but if you wrote them down do the ones from class.  If you did not try these.

  3  3/5×2  1/4


2  2/3×1  2/3



4  1/4×1   1/2

Nov 12

Science

We are now done are Density Stations that we have been working on for the last 4 days.  Stations need to be completed and ready to hand in for tomorrow.

Nov 6 Homework

Math

Complete the front and backside of the first page on your fractions review booklet.

Science

You should now have 3 of 4 density stations complete.  Friday will be the last class day to work on theses stations.

Homework Oct 27

Math

#3, 4, 7, 8 from page 214 are for homework tonight.  There will be a homework check tomorrow.

Homework

Viscosity Vocabulary Work due Monday

Viscosity- a fluids resistance to flow
Viscous- having a high viscosity, being resistant to flow, flows slowly
Flow rate - how fast a fluid flows measured in mL/s

• Use each word in a situational sentence.
• Come up with a synonym for each word.
• Explain it to me like I'm 5 for each word.
• Write  sentence that uses 1, 2, or 3 of the words and are in the form:
• If .... then....
• ... is the opposite of ...
• ... would be greater than...
• When...because...
• ... is sort of like... because...

Humanities Work

October 23

1. Today students completed a D.I.R.T. response in their journals that will need to be handed  in on Monday: Give an example of a particularly vivid or meaningful passage from your novel and explain about why this passage appealed to you or its importance in the story.

2. We began work related to Italian City States. Students were given a handout that use pages 47-53 from Chapter 2 for information, however students will need to complete some research to help answer questions within the chart for Monday. Also, a map, similar to the one located on page 48, needs to completed for Monday.
The following websites provides a brief overview.
http://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/italian_city-states.php
http://www.mrdowling.com/704-italy.html
http://theitalianrenaissance-byhelenlo.weebly.com/italian-city-states.html
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-italian-renaissance-and-italys-transformation.html

October 21

Humanities
1. Finish expansion of trade question 1 - 20: due for tomorrow
- (handout given in class, and 2 and a half class periods to work on it already)
- chapter 2 and handout is available on D2L in the HUM content section

2. Short Story elements quiz was completed in class today
- if you feel you need to review the elements, please check D2L in the HUM content section under short stories and fairy tales

Math

Complete page 202 #2-9 and 15-17.  Make sure to use a visual for #15-17.

Day in the Life of....

Students have started work related to understanding life in the middle ages.

The major task they are working on currently is to represent a day in the life of a person in the middle ages. You can choose to be a character from the feudal system (a King, Lord, Noble, Knight, peasant, serf, shopkeeper, merchant, woman) or the Church (the Pope, Bishop, Archbishop, Cardinal, Priest, or Nun, Parishioner).

Choices are to represent a day in the life of one of those characters through a a journal entry.

The task must include specific details about:

-            what they did on a regular day/ day to day activities

-           what power they held (show your understanding of the Feudal system)

-           what daily roles and responsibilities (duties) (connect to the Feudal system)

-           what they ate

-           how they dressed

-           relationships with others and offer points of view

(how others in the feudal system see them, treat them , etc.)

-           where they lived

-           their beliefs and values (connect to the elements of worldview)

http://www.camelotintl.com/village/street.html
http://www.learner.org/interactives/middleages/feudal.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_peasants.htm
http://www.medieval-life-and-times.info/medieval-life/

Homework

Science

Write a scientific response to the question at the end of the video.  Remember to use full sentences, use the concepts we have been talking about in class, and relevant scientific vocabulary.  Due on Tuesday Oct 7,

Math

Use the work from class today to direct you in preparing for an Integers Unit Test on Friday.

Humanities - Oct.2

Students finished watching A Knight's Tale in Humanities today. With the movie, students discussed anachronisms and how the elements of worldview connected to the Middle Ages (via the movie). We began our discussion of the Middle Ages and the Feudal System. This work will continue tomorrow.

Homework - students need to complete their group and self assessment for the element of worldview task. This must be handed in tomorrow. As well, all journals will be handed in tomorrow so they can be assessed over the weekend.

Homework

Science

Using the class data from our solubility lab complete the following.

Total grams dissolved in 10 mL of water

Salt - 3 g, 2 g, 1.1 g, 2.5 g
Sugar - 3 g, 4 g,

1.  Find the average mass of salt that can be dissolved in 10 mL of water.  Find the average mass of sugar that can be dissolved in 10 mL of water.

2.  Express the solubility of salt in 100 mL of water.  Express the solubility of sugar in 100 mL of water.

3.  How do the solubilities of salt and sugar in water ( calculated in #3) compare to the table below?

4.  Can you suggest reasons why our lab results differed from those in the table?


Salt    35.7 g/100 mL of water

Sugar 179.2 g/100 mL of water

Math

Math Links Page 312 and 313
"Explore the Math" due Friday

Homework

Science

Students are to create a page in their notebooks on the topic of Solutions and Dissolving.  Their page should have both visual and text elements.  Main concepts that should be included are: what is a solution, how does dissolving work, explaining solutes and solvents, defining soluble and insoluble.This is due on Oct 1.  

Tuesday, September 23

Humanities:

Students have learned about the Elements of Worldview. Much of their work is in their journals.

Homework (if not completed in class today) - Worldview (1 element) group visual
- students have worked for 4 class periods on this task and it is due tomorrow. Groups will present their visual to the class.
- visual has a space of 31 inches (h) x 43 inches (w)

In a group of 3 or 4, create a visual to show your understanding of worldview. Each group will receive ONE element to create a visual for.

Expectations of Worldview Element visual & what needs to be completed:

1.      Define the element of worldview in your own words

2.      Answer – “How does the element affect worldview?

3.      Give an example

4.      Each person provide a symbol representative of the element

5.      You will be presenting your visual to the class

6.      You have 2 classes to work on this task
     
        Math
       Homework:
       Do Mathlinks 8 Page 304 #3-15 Due tomorrow

Homework

Science 
Complete the analysis and conclusion questions for the Inspector's Corner Lab.  Due tomorrow.  

1. What is the difference between a mixture and a pure substance?

2. Below is a list of some examples of matter. Classify each example as a heterogeneous mixture, a homogeneous mixture, or a pure substance. Explain your classification in each case.

A) Chocolate chip cookies

B) Coffee with cream.

C) aluminum foil

D) Potting soil

E) Gold medal

3. Create a flowchart that would help you classify matter into heterogeneous mixtures, homogeneous mixtures or pure substances. Review the flow chart on page 13. Test your flow chart using examples in question 2.

4. What particular uses can you think of for chromatography

Thursday, September 18

Humanities

Today we continued our discussion regarding WORLDVIEW. Students extended their understanding of how worldview is affected in terms of Isolation > Contact (Inter-cultural contact) > Change and we watched an excerpt from the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy. Worldview, the elements of and the factors which affect it, is a theme that will flow throughout our entire grade 8 Humanities.

Parents - Students have completed work in their visual journals and will continue to do so often in Hum. Please ask your student about their journals and use it as a way to communicate what they are learning and why.

Also, in preparation for our annual Terry Fox Run on Friday, September 26, students worked within a group to create a graffiti task of words to represent Terry Fox and his legacy. If this was not completed during class time today, it is homework and due for Monday.

Math

For the past week we have been investigating multiplication with integers.  Students have been challenged to think about what multiplication means, how they can model it, and practicing computations.  On Thursday they were given as assessment that is to be completed and handed in for Monday.  A copy of this assessment can be found on D2L.

Science

In science we have been looking at how all matter can be classified as either a pure substance, homogeneous mixture, or a heterogeneous mixture.  Student's worked on a lab activity where they had to make detailed observations about 16 substances and decide, based on their observations, weather the substance was a pure substance, a homogeneous mixture, or a heterogeneous mixture.  A major component of this lab was providing a logical reason for their choice. This table needs to be completed for Monday.   

Hum homework for Wednesday

Wednesday, September 17
Hum - review worldviews, check the PPT on D2L & add to your journal notes

Homework

Math page 297 #12-14

Make sure your science data table is ready with the following headings.  

Product              Observations             Heterogenous,homogenous, pure substance              Reason

Homework

Math Page 291 # 5-15 due Tuesday

Welcome Back

Welcome back 8-1, we are so happy to have you in our classes this year.  We know you have your own personal goals for this school year and this space is here to help you meet them.  D2L will still be an important place to find documents, links, and a calendar but here on the blog is where your homework and updated information about the work we do in classes will appear.  Science, Math, and Humanities will all post on this one blog and share one D2L space.  Stay posted for more information!