8 th Grade Science Interactive Notebook Set-up

Homework Title(s) Warm Up: Write out questions, charts, diagrams AND your responses!!! Page # Homework : Homework assignments should always be written here, as the title AND in your agenda! Date A-Day Date B-Day Inside Cover of Notebook Keep This Page Blank!!!!

Prospectus Page Tape 8 th Grade Science Prospectus Here

Warm Up: Write out questions, charts, diagrams AND your responses!!! Page # Homework : Homework assignments should always be written here, as the title AND in your agenda! Reflection: Summary of activities from class lesson. What did you do? Learn? What questions do you have? Date A-Day Date B-Day Classwork Titles This will tell you what we are doing in class and what we plan to accomplish in today’s lesson Page # Date A-Day Date B-Day Page Set-Up Expectations Topic Title

Study and Sign Prospectus Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus Page S1 Homework : 1. Study and Sign Prospectus (Quiz Friday) 2. Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus 3. Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract Monday, August 27, 2012 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 Science Introduction and Expectations Review Prospectus Lab Safety Rules/Activity Page S2 Warm Up: Hopes and Fears: List something that you hope will happen this year in science and something that you may be nervous about. 1) 2) 3) Monday, August 27, 2012 Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Lab Skills Vocab. And Lab Report Format Warm Up: 1. What is the procedure for making up late assignments? 2. What are the three most important things to bring to science each day? 3. What are the first three things that you are supposed to do when you arrive to science class each day? ***If you finish all these questions, review your prospectus to prepare for quiz. Page 1 Homework : Written reflection of what you did in class and what you learned today. Wednesday, August 29, 2012 Thursday, August 30, 2012 Lab Skills Vocab. and Lab Report Format Page 2 Monday, August 29, 2012 Tuesday, August 30, Hypothesis 2.Independent variable 3. Dependent variable 4.Constant 5.Evidence 6.Data 7.Qualitative Observation 8.Quantitative Observation 9.Prediction 10.Inference Define the following words using the handbook in the back of your textbook. (pgs R1 – R35) or the workbook. Lab Report Parts and Practice Grading

1.Hypothesis - Tentative explanation for an observation or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation. 2.Independent variable - The factor that you wish to test and that is manipulated or changed so that it can be tested. Usually comes after the “if” in hypothesis. 3. Dependent variable - The factor that you measure to gather results. Usually comes after the “then” in hypothesis. 4.Constant – All of the factors that are the same 5.Evidence – something that proves or disproves an event 6.Data – factual information (data or statistics) 7.Qualitative Observation - Observations that include descriptions of sights, sounds, smells and textures. 8.Quantitative Observation - Observations that can be expressed in numbers and include records of time, temperature, mass, distance and volume. 9.Prediction - An expectation of what will be observed or what will happen. 10.Inference - A logical conclusion drawn from the available evidence and prior knowledge; often made from observations.

Warm Up: 1. Copy and organize the steps of the scientific method in correct order ____ organize data ____ write hypothesis ____ identify problem ____ conclusion ____ do the experiment ____ observe what happens ____ get background information Page 3 Homework : 1. Study your lab vocabulary quiz! Friday, August 31, 2012 Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Lab Report Practice Page 4 Lab Report Practice How Much Water Can a Coin Hold? Groups of 4 Work as a team to investigate this question. Each student needs to record their own data in their notebook. After lab completion, each student will independently write a lab report documenting this lab. We will grade the lab report during the last 10 min. of class Friday, August 31, 2012 Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Warm Up: What types of changes and cycles are happening on our planet that change earth’s surface, atmosphere, and waters? Page 5 Homework : 1. Create your own diagram showing the types and rocks and processes that change rock type. 2. Read 1.1 A and answer summary Qs 1 – 3 ( P. 13A) Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Thursday, September 6, 2012 Lab Vocabulary Quiz Rock Cycle and Erosion Page 6 Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Thursday, September 6, 2012 Create your own Rock Diagram Read 1.1 A from text and answer Q 1-3 Rock Cycle Notes

ROCK CYCLE PRE-ASSESSMENT 1.What is a cycle? 2.Name at least 2 of the 3 main rock types. 3.Which rock type forms in layers? 4.Which rock type is formed when one rock changes into another? 5.What forces cause rocks to change type? 6.In which rock type are fossils found? 7.Which 2 parts of earth make up the lithosphere?

Warm Up: 1. Name the three types of rocks AND describe how each is formed a. ___________ - ______________________ b. ___________ - _______________________ c. ____________ - _____________________ 2. In which rock type would you expect to find the fossils? Why? 3. Where would you expect to find the most recent fossils? Why? Page 7 Homework : Handout (both sides) - “ Determining Which is Older” (color code rocks) and “Creating a Rock Sequence” Friday, September 7, 2012 Monday, September 10, 2012 Law of Superposition / Relative Ages of Rocks Activity Page 8 Friday, September 7, 2012 Monday, September 10, 2012 Rock Layers Diagram Law of Superposition - layers (strata) that are younger will be deposited on top of layers that are older Relative Age – the age of an object in relation to another object If undisturbed, oldest on the bottom and youngest on the top Unconformity - a buried erosion surface separating two rock masses or strata of different ages (a missing rock layer due to erosion)erosionrockstrata

Law of Superposition continued Movement of Tectonic plates Can bend layers like a taco Faults – a break in earth’s crust where rock slips past another Intrusion – magma that has forced its way through existing rock layers Fossils and Sedimentary Rocks Fossils – a trace of once living organisms - found in sedimentary rock Index fossils – known age / used to determine relative age of rock layers

Relative Ages of Rocks Activity Part 1: How do rock layers change as they are bent? Part 2: How do rock layers change when they split or crack apart? Part 3: How can features on Earth be affected by rocks shifting?

What have you learned today? 1.When studying an undisturbed rock core, how do you know which is the oldest and youngest rock layer? 2.When might the youngest layer in sedimentary rock not be on the top? 3.Can you determine the exact age of rock by studying layer positions? 4.Use what you have learned today to write a definition for relative age.

Warm Up: 1.When studying an undisturbed rock core, how do you know which is the oldest and youngest rock layer? 2.When might the youngest layer in sedimentary rock not be on the top? 3.Can you determine the exact age of rock by studying layer positions? Page 9 Homework : 1. Answer Questions and Create Graph from Radioactive Activity ***Check my webpage for Study Topics for test next class!!! Radioactive Dating, Half Life and Absolute Age Notes “Sweet” Radioactive Simulation Page 10 Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Wednesday, September 12, 2012 Complete Radioactive Dating Activity Graph and Questions **Please have your Determining Which is Older worksheet out so I can check it. Tuesday, September 11, 2012 Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Page 11 Homework : Finish Questions from Index Fossil Activity Index Fossil and Rock Layers Activity Unit Test – Rock Cycle and Rock Ages Pre-assessment: Geologic Time Page 12 Thursday, September 13, 2012 Friday, September 14, 2012 Finish Questions from Index Fossil Activity Thursday, September 13, 2012 Friday, September 14, 2012 A C B D E F 3 J L K L M M N N O P 2 Warm Up: A rock was found an placed in a Gieger Counter. It appears to be 12.5% radioactive. A scientist did some research and found it’s half-life is 5,000 years. How old is this rock? 1 Order from Youngest to Oldest:

Warm Up: Identify whether each statement is an example of Relative or Absolute dating. What evidence did you use for your answer? 1) Billy was born on February 2, ) I started the Eighth Grade. 3)The Law of Superposition 4) The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, ) Dinosaurs lived before humans. Page 13 Homework : 1. Study your notes 2. Textbook pg. 72A #22, 25, 26 Monday, September 17, 2012 Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Geologic Time Scale Notes: Page 14 Monday, September 17, 2012 Tuesday, September 18, 2012 The Earth is approx. 4.6 BY old That’s 4,600,000,000 years old… This estimate is based on the absolute dating of meteorite materials found on Earth. Because of the extreme length of Earth’s history, scientists have divided its history into Eons, Eras, Periods, and Epochs. Study Notes and Textbook Pg 72 Questions

Warm Up: Use the diagram on 73A for Questions 1-5. Page 15 Homework : 1. Read 2.3 of Unit A in textbook and Answer Questions 1-3 District Formative Earth Science Argumentation Page 16 Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Thursday, September 20, 2012 Read 2.3 of Unit A in textbook and Answer Questions 1-3 Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Thursday, September 20, 2012

Warm Up: Answer the following questions in your notebook. 1.) What is the Greenhouse effect? 2.)Are Global Warming and the Greenhouse Effect the same? Why or why not? **Use your textbook if you need to. Page 17 Homework : 1. Pg. 51A answer questions # Study for quiz (use study guide) Friday, September Monday, September 24, 2012 Evidence of Climate Change: Page 18 Friday, September 21, 2012 Monday, September 24, 2012 Evidences of Climate Change: Scientists use ICE CORES and TREE RINGS to examine the history of Earth’s climate. Scientists can use observations and data from the past to predict future climate changes. Pg. 51A answer questions #1-5 and Study for quiz