WJHS 8th grade science 2012-2013: November 2012

Friday, November 30, 2012

December 3, 2012

Monday-
Work on Review songs

Tuesday-
Review for Ch 3 test

Wednesday-Review for test

jeopardylabs.com/play/chapter-3-review413

Thursday-
Chapter 3 test
Chapter 1
Motions of objects in Space

Friday-
S,M,E assignment
Your assignment:
You have a group of three. Your group needs to figure out the motions of the Sun, Moon and Earth, and be able to demonstrate them accurately. You ALL need to be able to answer questions over the reasons we have:
day and night
a year
eclipses, both solar and lunar

tides

RESOURCES:
videos:
lunar eclipses
http://videos.howstuffworks.com/nasa/3593-how-lunar-eclipses-work-video.htm
footage of total solar eclipse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSLZFItx5o
cause of day and night
http://www.schooltube.com/video/24a0e798d2ae76dbce26/
movement of Sun, Earth and Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47Wa7onrIQ
causes of tides
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN2RM5wa1ek

Now this
http://www.earthsunmoon.co.uk/

Interactive about what causes tides-
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/what-causes-the-tides.html

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007299181x/student_view0/chapter2/seasons_interactive.html

BOOKS
http://www.fearofphysics.com/SunMoon/sunmoon1.html

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072482621/student_view0/interactives.html#

(click on eclipse interactive)

http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases.phtml

http://www.kidseclipse.com/pages/a1b3c0d0.htm

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Tides.shtml

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/moon/lunar_phases_main.html

http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.eiu.seasonsgame/

Moon video- skip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMAC0ZZxZC4

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Cornell Notes

To make your own paper- but you can't print all of this at school :)
http://www.eleven21.com/notetaker/

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Week of November 26, 2012

#17 replacement address: http://www.morehead.unc.edu/Shows/EMS/seasons.htm

Monday- Starters are back!
Amazing space website- finish
STELLARIUM IS DUE TOMORROW.
page 94-100, skipping pages 96 & 97, read and notes.

Tuesday- Go over work and turn in.
http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electromagneticspectrum/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_PVz8HrrCI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbCzamwE-68&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdLO1yfYik

FOR Tomorrow: page 94-100, skipping pages 96 & 97, read and notes.

A time work- DUE FRIDAY IN CLASS- Read section 4- p 117-120, do Cornell notes and questions 1-4 on p. 120

Wednesday- Spectroscope LAB
Lab should have:
Section 1= notes ( on back of handout).
Section 2= sketches of emission spectra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJvS4uc4TbU&feature=fvwrel

Thursday-

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/galaxies/preview.weml

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/milkyway/preview.weml

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/black_hole.htm

http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/blackholes/preview.weml

go into a black hole
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/modules.html
section 5, read and notes over pages 121-124, Do questions 1-4 on page 124.

Friday- Cornell Notes Due
Review Chapter