Welcome to Mrs. Johnson's
8th Grade Science
Assignment Page
Periods 1,2,6,7
Online Earth Science Textbook Resources, linked here.
Expections & Guidelines:  
78-79% C+       73-77% C                70-72% C-               68-69% D+               63-67% D                60-62% D-        59 & below F
11.17:  Turn in Worksheet 2.1 Atoms, finish notes from power pointmatter 2.1.09.ppt.  Make model of 6 atoms.
11.16:  
look over periodic table of elements , note where metals  and non-metals are located.
Get notes from power point and copy into your journal.
HW:  ws 2.1 atoms- Due Tuesday


11.12:  per 1 See pg. 33 - make foldable for all vocab words in Ch.3 sect 1 and read pg. 34-38. - DUE MONDAY
11.11:  per 1: FINISH LAB: Determining Density (including summing up questions) - Due Monday
                per 2:  See pg. 33 - make foldable for all vocab words in Ch.3 sect 1 and read pg. 34-38. - DUE MONDAY
                Per 6 & 7 - No science
11.10:  Per 1,2,3 ITBS (no science)
                Per 6,7: Finish LAB: Determining Density - arrange to make up with Mrs. Johnson before or after school ASAP.   See pg. 33, construct foldable, read 34-38, vocab to put on foldable listed on pg 34: matter, atoms, elements, proton, neutron, electron, atomic number, mass number, isotopes
11.9:   LAB: Determining Density - arrange to make up with Mrs. Johnson before or after school ASAP.
11.6:   LAB Scientific measurements turned in.
                 LAB: Determining Density - started and to be continued next week.
11.5:   LAB: Scientific Measurements. Due Friday.
                Schedule make up time before or after school or 4th or 5th period during school.  
11.4:   Test results, Check sect 1 review, ITBS practice. No HW
11.3:   Check in cell book, check out earth science book.  Read pg. 6-14
11.2:    Genetic engineering- video and discussion. Get emergency passes and late coupons.
10.29:  Genetics Test.  TURN in late coupons, emergency passes, late work, missing work ALL by end of today!  
10.28:  Turn in emergency passes & late coupons. All late and make up work must be turned in tomorrow.  It is the end of quarter 1. Check and correct chapter review.  Genetics practice Problems done in class and checked.  Practice Problems III.docPlease study for test!
10.27:  Notes 3.4 copy into journal (including a colored coded drawing of DNA molecule).  DNA_Connection.3.4.pptHW:  Chapter Review Pg. 108 & 109 #1-4, 6-9, 11,13, 18-20; Pg 136#6,7
TEST THURSDAY. study!
10.26: Modeled Meiosis.  Please read and study diagram on page 99 in textbook.  W.S. 3.3 Due Tuesday.  TEST chapter 3 genetics on Thursday 10.29.09.
10.23:  Turn in interest Points.  Read in Textbook pg. 96-100
REMINDER: Birth annoucement due Monday.
10.22:  Activity: "POMG" - Birth Annoucement work time.  - Due monday.  
REMINDER: interest points due tomorrow.
10.21:  Activity:  "Passing on My Genes"        Birth Announcement Due Monday.
Reminder...Interest Points due Friday, no late coupons can be used.
10.20:  Turn in W.S. Punnett Squares, Activity: Human genetics traits - done in class, Reminder...Interest Points due Friday, no late coupons can be used.  
10.19:  Genetics Vocab. - Show mrs. J. ; More practice punnett squares. HW:  Punnett Squares WS due Tuesday.
10.17:  Notes: patterns of Inheritance(in journal) and Punnett Square practice, vocab due Monday.
10.16:
per 1; Discover lab pg. 88 (record in Journal), Notes: Patterns of Inheritance. Practice Punnett Squares. Reminder of genetics vocab due monday.
Per 2,6,7: Notes: Patterns of Inheritance. Practice Punnett Squares Reminder of genetics vocab due monday.
10.15: Read/review pg. 80-85.  Do Discover lab pg. 88 (Not Per 1) in journal.

HW:  Genetics vocab – DUE Monday, Oct 19

10.14:  Read in new CELL book..pg 80-85, KWL chart in Journal, fill in know column and Want to Know about the topic heredity/genetics.  Answer Reading check question from pg 82 in journal.  
10.13:  Take Quest: bacteria.  Turn in Textbook.
10.12:  review in class.  Quest is tomorrow.  40 pt, please study.  Answer key to suggested Chapter 2 reivew:  Pg. 76 #4,5,8,9,10, 14-18
4.a   5.c  8.True 9. true 10.antibiotic  14. cell wall, protect cell; cytoplasm-gel-like, where all cell reactions take place; ribosomes-make proteins; flagella-like a propeller, help it to move; DNA-instructions for carrying out cell functions; Cell membrane-allows some materials to pass through and not others; pili-help it to stick to others & forms tube for conjugation; capsule- slimy coating helps it to stick to others 15. most reproduce asexually by binary fission; some sexual by conjugation  16.  E.coli living in your intestine help you stay healthy because they help digest food and make vitamins.  17. antibiotics kill bacteria by weakening the cell wall.
18. vaccines prevent spread of infectious disease by stimulating people's immune system that fights off the invading viruses & bacteria.  
10.8:   Finish notes about bacteria. Turn in W.S. Viruses, bacteria and Your Health.  Quest Tuesday.
10.8:   Notes: Bacteria  from power point.  Bacteria.pp.pptCopy into your journal.
HW: Read pg. 68-73  and do Worksheet 2.3 viruses, bacteria, & health (only Review & Reinforce side) Due Friday.
10.7:   Last Day for Student presentations "Be a Disease Detective"
         Read pg. 68-73 Quest next Tues. 10/13 over Pg. 56-73
10.6:   Student presentations "Be a Disease Detective"
10.5 Disease detective reminders.pptFINAL work day for Disease detectives.
10.2    Hartman Field Trip  see ongoing due dates & assignments.
10.1:   EXPLORE test today. Complete and turn in bacterial model by end of day.
9.30:   Complete Bacterial 3-D Model, include a way to label all 8 structures. Due Thursday.  
9.29:   Per 2:turn in W.S. bacteria. All periods: Bacterial Structure. Sketch & label a bacterial cell into your journal.(see pg. 58 in Text). in addition, locate the functions of each structure & record, too.  Begin model construction.
9.28:  Per 1,6,7:  turn in W.S. 2.2 Bacteria;   Work day on "be a disease detective" ; Presentations due date moved to 10.5 (monday)
        per 2:  W.S. 2.2 (review & reinfocement side only) due Tuesday; Work day on "be a disease detective";  Presentations due date moved to 10.5 (monday)


        
9.25:  per 2 QUEST , read Pg 56-65 &  Activity:  Typhoid Mary (turned in during class)
        per 1,2,6,7: QUEST, Read pages 56-65, do Worksheet 2.2 Bacteria (reinforce & review side only)-Due Monday (Nearly everyone completed this in class!)
Reminders:  lab report Duckweed - completed in journal by monday, Survey results. bring to class Monday.

9.24:   Activity:  Typhoid Mary...Shows how infectious disease spreads.
        Reminders:  entire duckweed experiment lab report DUE Monday (should just involve the conclusion writing if you been in school), Responses to survey questions....you individually should be interviewing 15 people.
        HW: study for Quest
9.23:  use Excel program to create graph of the duckweed exeriment data.  Cut and tape into journal.  Work on the conclusion portion of lab report, edit procedure as needed.  (See lab report format document attached 9.22)  Lab report due Monday 9.28 (leave in journal)
        REMINDERS:  FRIDAY is a QUEST, 25 pts, over everything from start of year through viruses including duckweed experiment.
        HW:  get disease dective survey's done by Monday 9.28
9.22:
9.21: LAST day for data collected for Duckweed Experiment. Survey Rough Draft returned.
HOT ZONE read aloud and written symptoms of ebola (Marburg) virus (in journal).  Hot Zone Video Finished.
HW:  Final Draft Survey DUE TOMORROW!
HW:  Field Trip Permission Forms signed by parent/guardian - DUE Wed. 9.23
9.17: TURN in Rough draft TODAY. Data collected for Duckweed Experiment.HOT ZONE VIDEO(title this in journal), use questions from yellow slip to answer while viewing the video.   REMINDER:  FINAL Draft due Tuesday, 9.22
9.16:Data collected for Duckweed Experiment.  THE HOT ZONE (title this in journal), record symptoms of marburg virus as you listen to reading from this book. REMINDER:  rough draft Survey due Tomorrow!
9.15: (Tues) Data collected for Duckweed Experiment.  Work day for "Be a Disease Detective"  project.  MAKE -UP...Show me what you've done on your own for research/survey writing for your participation points for the day.
        HW:  Survey Rough Draft Due Thursday 9.17 (start of class)
9.14: (Mon) Data collected for Duckweed Experiment. Research for Infectious Disease Report.  MAKE -UP...Show me what you've done on your own for research for your participation points for the day.
9.11:  Data collected for Duckweed Experiment.  Notes, Viruses (written in journal),Viruses pp.ppt
9.10: Data collected for Duckweed Experiment.  Notes, Viruses (written in journal),
9.9:  Collect data and record in journal for Duckweed experiment. Virus introduction, turn in HW if you were absent.  Interest Points are DUE Oct 23rd.  
9.8:  Set up Duckweed experiment. Data Table in journal for quantitative data, complete procedure.  HW:  read pg. 48-54. Answer Question:  Are Viruses alive and why or why not.
9.4:  Turn in LAB: "problem solving & a scientific method"
Plan your experiment to grow the most Duckweed. Title, Question,  Hypothesis, procedure  written in journal as part of the lab report.
9.3:   Notes in journal Pondweed.  
9.2:   LAB:  Prob solv...continued in class. DUE FRIDAY.  Due today....Book cover * Safety contract signed!
9.1:  LAB: "problem solving & a scientific method"  - continued tomorrow. HW:  see 8.31
        make - up...arrange with mrs. Johnson, asap!
8.31: Safety Review, interest points handout- please read carefully (not per 1)
        HW reminders:  Book cover, signed safety contract, Journal ----ALL DUE 9.2  
8.28:  Science Safety. Read pg. 195-197
        HW: contract signed by student & parent, due 9.2
8.27: ,Classroom Procedures Handout
        HW:  supplies and book covere due 9.2
8.26:  Welcome!