Science 8 - Dana

1. CBC article (linking oral history with scientific literacy/evidence). Read and highlight key understandings:   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dene-migrations-1.4304503 2. Discuss set up of final project 3. Genius hour presentations

1. Lesson 1 activity 2 in Mountain building journal: https://web.archive.org/web/20131204080644/http://www.teachingboxes.org/mountainBuilding/lessons/journal/MBJournal.pdf 2. Review and Reflection in activity 2 (will be marked) 3. First People's knowledge of land forms Story: How the world was made again by Charles Clay Story: The Earth on Turtle's Back by Caduto and Bruchac Video:  https://youtu.be/vT4Yc9ask58 Video:  https://youtu.be/fFYCFPXPB6I Video: Frog Mountain Story  https://youtu.be/buOjN1g3KkU Article:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dene-migrations-1.4304503

1. What do we know already about mountains brainstorm: 2. review plate boundaries 3. We looked at pictures of all sorts of different mountains (in table groups) and created our own classification system for them based solely on their SHAPE. https://web.archive.org/web/20150701025022/http://teachingboxes.org/mountainBuilding/lessons/mountainSlides/MountainPhotoArchive.pdf 4. we did lesson 1 and 2 in our mountain building journals: https://web.archive.org/web/20131204080644/http://www.teachingboxes.org/mountainBuilding/lessons/journal/MBJournal.pdf

1. continents review and mapping activity http://plateboundary.rice.edu/downloads.html 2. review boundaries h ttps://www.google.com/search?q=types+of+boundaries&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=PWJ3oAukQKUAwM%253A%252C4LzGITB4X-lIDM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSq6tJJWn-QG3OkMOmgl7HQ6yubIw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiOnvLewLziAhXyKDQIHcMEB8wQ9QEwAHoECA0QBg#imgrc=PWJ3oAukQKUAwM: 3. Notes on boundaries 3. genius hour presentations

Day 1: Layers of the Earth  1. Layers of the Earth Song – As a class we’ll listen to the song twice. First time straight through and the second time looking at the lyrics and asking students to share on what they heard in the song.  2. Pre-Assessment: Students will be given a pre-assessment on the layers of the earth, three main types of plate boundaries, the cause and effects of mountain building, volcanoes, and earthquakes.  3. Explore: Side by Side Comparison – Layers of the Earth to Milky way Candy Bar – Students will be given a snack size Milky Way bar which they will cut in half with their table partner. They will have a couple of minutes to make observations about each layer in side of the candy bar. They will share out their observations. Then using their background knowledge students and a word bank, students will try to match each layer of the candy bar to a layer of the earth. Explain: Layers of the  4. Earth Foldable – After the previous activity student’s wi

1. reviewed optics unit 2. went to bc science 8 website and linked our evidence of learning to the learning outcomes 3. Vaping Tedx Talk  https://www.ted.com/talks/suchitra_krishnan_sarin_what_you_should_know_about_vaping_and_e_cigarettes#t-855466

1. Today was Pride day @ RSS 2. review testing expectations 3. We got the opportunity to look at the test for 5 min before writing it - discuss questions with each other and work out any pre-test anxiety. 4. TEST 5. Fun kahoots after of students choice

1. workbook 6.1 corrections https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3EbWHKwTyj2NDF2WjM3SWJMUkU 2. genius hour presentations 3. study block

Double block today 1st block: 1. Videos on the human eye and vision: https://youtu.be/i3_n3Ibfn1c https://youtu.be/o0DYP-u1rNM 2. Chapter 6.1 in workbook (Parts of the eye and correcting vision pages only) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3EbWHKwTyj2NDF2WjM3SWJMUkU 2nd block: 1. Dissection Lab. Page 212 in Science 8 text: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3EbWHKwTyj2VUJVTDRHNHBPeEE

1. Reviewed Questions 1-4 on page 175 2. video on refraction:  https://youtu.be/sBb5WUw2_2I or this one:  https://youtu.be/v5SuSB_93FM 3. Did questions 5-7 on page 175 together 4. Lab - page 178 in Science 8 text book We also discussed how we are going to deal with late assignments going forward.  See the picture below

1. Section 5.1 in text book - we read some parts and experimented with mirrors and light - we defined the law of reflection and drew a figure that will be on our unit test.  See pictures 2. Students did page 175 questions #1-4 in class

LAST DAY FOR GENIUS HOUR DUE MONDAY MAY 6 - SHARE WITH DANA VIA OFFICE 365 We reviewed our Rubric and I went through what the expectations were. If there is a specific area you would like me to notice please ensure to point that out on your rubric.

1. watched video and took notes: https://youtu.be/L6xVw-SRks4 Notes: 2. Did the pbs learning media demonstrations (wavelength, frequency and amplitude), we made predictions and measured the waves in each demonstration:  https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.phys.energy.wavelength/wavelength/ 3. Watched the Tacoma Bridge collapse video:  https://youtu.be/nFzu6CNtqec 4. Second block we did the  WAVES LAB found here:    https://sciencebybuff.weebly.com/uploads/8/4/5/7/84570838/middleschoolsciencewaveslabngssaligned.pdf