This is the daily classroom agenda for Paxton Center School grade 8 Science. Lesson plans, homework, and other relevant information will be posted here each class.
Step 1: Review and check your work on the Describing Motion assignment you submitted to Google classroom on Monday. Use the PowerPoint and/or YouTube video below to check your work. Pay close attention to your understanding of velocity
Step 2: Complete the four question velocity comprehension check using the link to the Google form below.
Step 3: Complete the Speed Calculation Practice worksheet attached to this lesson. Follow the instructions carefully.
Investigate motion by following along with the following steps and resources.
Step 1: Read pages 491 two 494 in Chapter 14 Motion Forces and Newton's Laws.
Step 2: Complete the questions in the "Describing Motion" Google doc attached to this assignment.
Step 3: Take the comprehension check by following the Google Forms link included with this assignment. You may use both the reading and your responses to the questions to support you.
Today, you will learn the amazing science that reveals how water dwelling creatures first evolved to walk, and live, on land.
You will be watching an 11 minute segment from the documentary, Great Transformations.
Following that, you will complete a reflection on the worksheet.
Today, you’re going to learn a bit more about whale evolution. Scientists believe they have made an extraordinarily strong case for an astounding claim; whales evolved from a four-legged predator about the size of a wolf. Your job is to assess the evidence.
You will read a short article about whale evolution followed by a 17 minute clip of a video on the topic.
Will be asked to reflect on what you've learned and assess whether or not you believe scientists have made a strong case for the astounding claim that whales evolved from small predators that lived on land.
Your lesson today is to use a textbook resource to review some of the important lines of evidence that show organisms have evolved over time on earth. You will need to read three pages from our textbook series in order to answer the questions related to this topic.
You will do all of your work in a single document that is been assigned to you in Google classroom. That assignment will also have attachments to the necessary readings.
Your lesson for today is to rethink the idea of an evolutionary arms race and how it relates to humans.
Your first step will be watch a segment of video on a disease called tuberculosis and how it has evolved to become drug-resistant.
Your second step will be complete a worksheet with questions to reflect on what you learned in that video.
