8-1 Math and Science

Children are naturally curious learners and there are opportunities at home to engage their learning. We have created a   webpage   that offers a variety of educational ideas to support literacy, numeracy and wellness at home for this week. The resources are meant as suggestions only. You may choose to use the links and activities as needed over the next few days as more long-term educational programming is considered. https://cbe.ab.ca/programs/curriculum/learning-at-home/Pages/6-9.aspx

The purpose of teacher blogs is to inform students and their families of day-to-day learning and activities throughout the school year.  We will continue to communicate learning opportunities and will provide links to online learning resources through these blogs.    Important information related to all school decisions will continue to be emailed to parents/guardians and can also be found on the CBE website ( www.cbe.ab.ca ).

Eyeball dissections Monday. Linear Relations assessment Thursday.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tfO7r3GbTP7QCiIblr7DY-C_msJUM8yp/view?usp=sharing

Next week we will be researching diseases of the eye and learning about parts of the eye and how it works.

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/bending-light

This week we explored light and shadows. The ray model of light states that: light travels in straight lines light can be absorbed light can be reflected light can be refracted We used the ray model to explain how light interacts with opaque, translucent, and transparent materials, and concave and convex lenses and mirrors. The Exploring Light and Shadows assignment as well as the Famous Discoveries of Light assignment are due. I cannot post these on the blog due to Copyright, so please come and get them from me if you need another copy.

The past few weeks we have been working on operations with integers. Here are a few videos to help you. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-negative-numbers/arith-review-sub-neg-intro/v/adding-and-subtracting-negative-number-examples https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-negative-numbers/arith-review-add-and-sub-integersss/v/adding-integers-with-different-signs https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/arith-review-negative-numbers/arith-review-mult-divide-negatives/v/why-a-negative-times-a-negative-is-a-positive

Copy the questions to a Google Docs and share with me. Or, you may write the questions down by hand and put them in the Hand-In Box. Don't forget to initial beside your name once complete! joeinarson@educbe.ca Useless Machines Reflection #1 What is the overall function of your machine?         Describe the individual components (simple machines) of your device and explain what they do.   What is the source of energy for your machine?   Describe how the energy is transmitted through your machine.  

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions.

This is the Ted Talk we watched for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bsKc4tiuY Useless Machines Planning Assignment https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k6s_A2rQdT26EO0cMSY4_TiNxcJVzjZB/view?usp=sharing

These videos and online practice will help! https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/probability-geometry/probability-basics/v/basic-probability

Lever Inclined Plane (Ramp) Wedge Screw Pulley Wheel + Axle Intro to Simple Machines Game https://www.msichicago.org/fileadmin/Activities/Games/simple_machines/ Simple Machines Assignment/Notes You are to create a Google Slides presentation. For each simple machine, you need: 1. Name of Simple Machine   2.  A definition/description of what each simple machine is   3. How does this simple machine make work easier for people? 4. What would   life be like without it?   5.  Three picture examples 6. One YouTube video showing this simple machine in action  

Congrats to all of the teams on the design and completion of your boats. Even though some of them collapsed and some tipped over, each team showed up with a boat to race and rocked it out there! Please access the link below to answer to questions to reflect on your experience and learning. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WJudGjFaAVCcTPzoDU74CTLb2uzm79iwZT24j9EaZu0/edit?usp=sharing

https://quizlet.com/71291856/science-8-mix-and-flow-of-matter-vocabulary-flash-cards/ You should not need to make an account. 1. Go to Learn and see if you can master all of the words 2. Play  match or gravity

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/f9dbedd6-b4ed-47b4-bdd1-69ab5c73deae/f9dbedd6-b4ed-47b4-bdd1-69ab5c73deae/#.XYPnfJNKjBI

Math: Ratios, Rates, and Proportions I Can Statements https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c17-iWdJ9DWTcAbO6_GKUqjwF0qfy2MU/view?usp=sharing Science: Concentration and Solubility Notes https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ed4jf4RK4KKsAaA9Pokjk7rtD4-aasw7/view?usp=sharing

WHMIS Poster Assignment https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Ntn15fnMPPydqq0Xsz6fzHi8_TraROn/view?usp=sharing

Welcome Grade 8 Mustangs! I am so excited to meet all of you and to get to know you throughout this school year. We are going to have an incredible year full of challenges, failures, struggles, and so much learning! Be ready for me to push you every single day to strive to do something better than the day before. As a learning team of Mustangs, you are going to challenge each other to achieve greatness.  Together, we are going to rock this school. This is going to be your BEST YEAR YET! -Ms. Bhavnani Respect Yourself Respect Others Respect The School