SCIENCES 8
*** Click on the image above for some cool St Patrick's day science experiments! F Block - Review day and time to catch up and complete 3D cells! *** Chp 1 test Thursday when we get back H Block - We watched our BIO/DNA songs with the grade 12! NO HOMEWORK THIS SPRING BREAK!!! MATH 8 - Review and then Quiz on Section 2-3 - Practice test for the TRU math competition - Numb3rs episode "Sabotage" on ratios *** Chp 2 test Wednesday when we get back *** Mandatory Connections block Wednesday when we get back for the 2017 TRU math competition *** Practice tests and answer keys for TRU test can be found here : http://mathcontest.sites.tru.ca/ SCIENCES 8 F Block Cells cells and more cells! Today was a cell building today! *** 3D cells need to be submitted tomorrow! *** A little stem cell humour for you below! :) H Block - Today we had our quiz on the parts and functions of the microscope - We then looked at how diffusion and osmosis work *** Tomorrow we will be watching our Biology Songs with the grade 12s! Can't wait!!! MATH 8 - Review of section 2-2 - Quiz on section 2-2 - Time to work on 2-3 *** Quiz on 2-3 tomorrow SCIENCES 8
F Block - Microscope quiz - 3D cell work day H Block - Microscope drawings of epithelial mouth cells *** Quiz on microscope parts and functions tomorrow MATH 8 - Review of 2-1 and 2-2 - Quiz on section 2-1 - Notes and Qs for 2-3 *** Quiz on 2-2 tomorrow SCIENCES 8
F Block - WORK BC - Find Your Fit (career fair) - Time for 3D cells *** 3D cells are due Friday H Block - Microscope day (biological drawings of print) MATH 8 - Review of 2-1 - Notes and Qs for section 2-2 *** Quiz on 2-1 tomorrow / Quiz on 2-2 Thursday / Quiz on 2-3 Friday SCIENCES 8
F block - Diffusion and osmosis and cellular structures *** Bring in material for building 3D cells tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday H block - Chp 1-1 (living things, bacteria, viruses, microscopes etc) *** Bring a pencil to tomorrow's class for microscope drawings MATH 8 - Board games and notes on section 2-1 *** Quiz on 2-1 Wednesday, Quiz on 2-2 Thursday, Quiz on 2-3 Friday SCIENCE 8
F Block: - Today we worked on our Epithelial Cell drawings with the microscopes and explored other different objects/specimens under the microscopes when we finished. H Block: - Today was the Chp test on density, states of matter and fluids. **** No homework this weekend! MATH 8 - Today we finished off our probability test and started to play some of our board games. *** We will finish the games next week and start into Chapter 2 on whole numbers. SCIENCES 8
F Block: - Microscope day - drawing letters and basic handling! H Block: - Review and finish up labs MATH 8 - Chp 11 test (will finish tomorrow due to short blocks today) *** Games are due tomorrow and we will be playing them :) SCIENCES 8
F Block - Notes on Cells, living things and microscopes (section 1.1) *** Bring a pencil for biological drawings with microscopes tomorrow H Block - Today we had our quiz on section 7-2 - Review time and time to finish our labs *** Chp 7 test Friday MATH 8 - Guest presentation from Roxanne at the Gambling Prevention group on probability and chance gaming. *** Chp 11 test tomorrow SCIENCES 8
F Block: - Chapter 7 Test *** Starting Chp 1 tomorrow H Block: - One last day to work with Sr Bio students on DNA songs - Labs due at the end of tomorrow's class. Quiz still Wednesday on 7-2 MATH 8 - Chp 11 review today *** Chp 11 test Thursday, and probability games are due Friday so that we can play them! TRU POPSICLE BRIDGE COMPETITION! Congrats to Kacie Long and Luke Fabbro-Smith who were the top 2 grade 8s at the competition this past wekeend! Kacie's bridge held 320 lbs and Luke's was close with 296 lbs. We were able to see what we need to do down the road to stand a chance against the best as the winner topped out at 1741 lbs this year!!! Thanks to all my students who took time out of their Saturday to come and test out their bridges. SCIENCES 8
F Block: Today was spent doing review questions from our book, catching up on lab work and writing missed quizzes, and going through our "À Savoir" sheet for the test tomorrow *** Chp 7 test tomorrow H Block: We wrote our Chp 7-1 quiz today and started our lab on unknown densities that we will finish in an upcoming class. |
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