8th Grade Life Science
29 Rhody Drive Port Townsend, WA 98368
The House Project Assignments Each student must turn in to get an A.
- 10 journals date time weather and what was accomplished or learned
- one site plan drawing including setbacks, drain fields and buildable lot
- Bubble drawings and notes on house design
- Practice cost estimate
- Actual cost estimate for their house design
- 2 career reports on two different occupations
- Either a site plan explanation or House Sales Brochure
Shared Assignments
- One drawing of house to scale including plumbing, doors, windows, cabinets, and electrical to code.
- One model with detachable roof and interior exterior walls, windows and doors.
Career reports
beginning salary, final salary, how many years of training. what they do, how to become one. one page 12 point one sided report.
Site Plan explanation and house brochure
One page each. one is written (Site Plan explanation) why the house is placed where it is and facing the way it faces. The other is more design and sales oriented (House sales brochure) look at real estate brochures for ideas.
The Crazy Hard Hike started with an avalanche chute
Then to snow bridging
And finally to fording a stream and finding a safe passage
Crazy Hard Hike Almost done
Odyssey 2008
4/14/08
Problem:
Hypothesis: Must be measurable have a measurable prediction with a reason
· measurable
· prediction
· reason for
Apparatus:
· draw and Label all materials
Procedure
· steps
· # trials
· how long
· safety
Analysis
· data shows hypo
· labels graphs explain what it is showing
Conclusion
· Hypothesis T/F
· why
· range of data
· new question
Vocab for WASL
Due April 4, 2008 Mail It like your bills
3/24/08
PORTABLE TIDEPOOL
3/13/08
3/3/08
2/25/08
Phyla Practice Worksheet Answers
2/25/09
2/8/09
2/19/08
Taxonomy Notes
1/14/08
1/7/08-1/8/08 Draw a bacteria, 2 protists, and a multicelled animal from observations in pond water.
Taxonomic Jeopardy
Girls Ewww Boys Boo
Period 2 3200 2700
Period 3 3200 3200 Tie
Period 4 1800 1500 Girls
12/03-1/4/08
“Do what you gotta do; to do what you wanna do.”
Denzel Washington
11/26/07
Assignment for today.
11/21/07
Have a great Thanksgiving and be Safe out there.
11/20/07
LEAF chlorophyll and other color extraction findings in fall leaves.
Look at the data of your class and then analyze it for your hypothesis. “Note data from just your strips is meaningless because our hypothesis is about the leaves in fall in general” If you are looking at your strip alone there is no VALIDITY….
Your analysis should be about your hypothesis. If you only look at your strips then you aren’t making a general observation about fall leaves which is what the hypothesis was to be about.
So to make a long story short, combine the data into a graphic display that looks at the color in the leaves that had green in a pie or bar chart. For second period set it up to show leaves with green and leaves without green for your charts.
10/29/07
Notes on plant classification sub on Tuesday answer questions from notes and page 270 1-12 write questions and answers.
10/25/07
Dr. Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture in Full
1hr 44min
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184
Oprah show MS speed version
http://www2.oprah.com/videochannel/videochannel_player.jhtml?video=1178&category=31
10/22/07
Lab write up for osmosis experiment is due.
10/19/07
Hey kids here is a list of all the plants alleged to be found in Port Townsend. They are grouped by the groups and whether they are introduced or native plants. There is a good site for some other plants listed.
http://www.wnps.org/plant_lists/counties/jefferson/jefferson_county.html
10/15/07
Review test and handout remedial work for retest on Wednesday.
10/12/07
Cell test on Friday know definitions of animal cell organelles, be able to draw a basic plant cell, spell Mr. Thomsen’s Last name, know the functions of plant cell organelles.
10/8-11/07
Thursday went to HJ Carroll Park/Tri Area Park photographing plants.
10/4/07
Students walked to HJ Carroll Park and Tri Area Community Center to photograph native plants during class and returned tomorrow they will be writing up descriptions and identifications for them. 4th period will be allowed to checkout digital cameras to photograph their plant groups over the weekend.
10/3/07
osmosis experiment design work9/25/07 Plant cell notes and cell model due 10/2/07
9/20/07 -9/21/07 Observing skills honing them for science
Cheek Cell Lab
9/18/07
9/17/07
What is alive notes.
Cell notes and drawing. Drawing from a microscope.
9/11/07
Students went out and practiced photographing plants to identify they are responsible to identify as many plants in there specific group as possible seem groups below. Attached is the record form for describing and identifying their plants.
Plant identification resources
http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/pi/npresrcs.htm
Mosses help
http://www.backyardnature.net/mosses.htm
http://www.perspective.com/nature/plantae/bryophytes.html
9/10/07
Today students went out and observed plants from their groups they need to photographing and identifying several species of each.
Grasses/Ferns Trees
Mosses/Saprophytes/Ferns Conifers
Shrubs Flowers
9/6/07 Plant notes for class you may want to draw what these look like at home.
9/5/07
How does science relate to you the student
The flow of science
>Observation>Analyze>Hypothesis>Conclusion>
Plant ID
Write fifteen -twenty different observations to help identify different types of plants.