1. Thursday, August 25, 2011 Friday, August 26, 2011
Study and Sign Prospectus Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
Science Introduction and Expectations
Review Prospectus
Lab Safety Rules/Activity
Warm Up:
Make a numbered list and write down any lab safety rules that you remember from last year. 1) 2) 3)
Homework: 1. Study and Sign Prospectus
2. Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
3. Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
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2. 8th Grade Science Interactive Notebook Set-up

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

4. Tape 8th Grade Science Prospectus Here
Prospectus Page
Tape 8th Grade Science Prospectus Here
Keep This Page Blank!!!!

5. Page Set-Up Expectations
Date A-Day Date B-Day
Date A-Day Date B-Day
Homework Title(s)
Classwork Titles
This will tell you what we are doing in class and what we plan to accomplish in today’s lesson
Warm Up:
Write out questions, charts, diagrams AND your responses!!!
Homework: Homework assignments should always be written here, as the title AND in your agenda!
Page #
Page #

6. Thursday, August 25, 2011 Friday, August 26, 2011
Study and Sign Prospectus Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
Science Introduction and Expectations
Review Prospectus
Lab Safety Rules/Activity
Warm Up:
Make a numbered list and write down any lab safety rules that you remember from last year. 1) 2) 3)
Homework: 1. Study and Sign Prospectus
2. Review and Sign Lab Safety Contract
3. Have Parent Sign Contract and Prospectus
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7. Earth Layers Pre-Assessment Finish Lab Report
Monday, August 29, Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Monday, August 29, Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Earth Layers Pre-Assessment Finish Lab Report
Prospectus Quiz
1st Science Lab
Lab Report
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.
Homework: 1. Complete take-home Earth Layers Pre Assessment
2. Finish Lab Report
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8. ____ observe what happens ____ get background information
Wednesday, August 31, Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, Thursday, September 1, 2011
District Formative Lab Report Expectations/Rubric Lab Vocabulary
Lab Vocabulary Sentences
Define the following words using the handbook in the back of your textbook. (pgs R1 – R35)
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
Hypothesis
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Control variable
Manipulate
Operational definition
Qualitative Observation
Quantitative Observation
Prediction
Inference
Hypothesis - Tentative explanation for an observation or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
Independent variable - The factor that you wish to test and that is manipulated or changed so that it can be tested.
Dependent variable - The factor that you measure to gather results
Control variable - A variable that is the same in every way possible except for the factor you wish to test.
Manipulate - Changing something so it can be tested
Operational definition - description of the one particular way in which you will measure the dependent variable.
Qualitative Observation - Observations that include descriptions of sights, sounds, smells and textures.
Quantitative Observation - Observations that can be expressed in numbers and include records of time, temperature, mass, distance and volume.
Prediction - An expectation of what will be observed or what will happen.
Inference - A logical conclusion drawn from the available evidence and prior knowledge; often made from observations.
Homework: 1. Write individual sentences for each lab vocabulary word you defined today in class.
2. Study your vocabulary words!
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9. Friday, September 2, 2011 Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Lab Vocabulary Review
Earth Layers Diagram Notes
Earth Dissection Activity
Study for Quiz on Earth’s Layers and Lab Vocabulary
Warm Up:
1. List and describe a variety of operations you could have used during your penny lab.
***Recall what operation means from your lab vocabulary
Lab Vocabulary Review:
Ticket out the door:
Make a T-Chart or Write Sentences describing how the egg represented Earth’s layers in our activity. Also, list what layer of the Earth was not accurately represented in our model?
Qualitative Quantitative
Hypothesis
Inference
Prediction
Independent variable – comes after the “if” in hypothesis.
Dependent Variable – Come after the “then” in hypothesis.
Non-numerical:
Sights
Sounds
Smells Textures
Easier to Observe
Numerical:
Time
Mass
Distance
Volume
Require measuring
Change Control Variable to Constant!!
Operational Definition
Several ways to measure something, define how you want to
Usually found in procedure
This helps people to know what you did and build off of it
Homework: 1. Study vocabulary words and Earth layers diagram for your quiz next class.
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10. Quiz Day!
Sit quietly and review for your quiz, you don’t need to write anything down YET.
*You will need a pencil and a scrap piece of paper out and ready to use.

11. 1. Open up your text book to page 11 of Unit A
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Thursday, September 8, 2011
Lab Vocabulary and Earth Layers Quiz
Pangaea Activity
Earthquakes and Volcanoes Video
Drifting Continents Extended Reading
Warm Up:
1. Open up your text book to page 11 of Unit A
2. Read pages 11 – 13 and create three bullets for the following terms:
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Tectonic Plates
Lithosphere:
Earth’s curst and the uppermost part of the mantle
The most rigid of all the layers
Is broken into many small slabs of rock
Sits on top of the asthenosphere
Asthenosphere:
Layer of hotter, softer rock in the mid-mantle
Flows slowly like tar
Layer that the lithosphere floats on top of
Tectonic Plates:
Small and large slabs of rock in the lithosphere
Fit together like a jigsaw puzzle
Include both continental and oceanic crust
Homework: 1. Read “Drifting Continents” extended
reading worksheet and answer questions on back
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12. Evidence for Pangaea Diagram Notes Quiz “talk” Video with Questions
Friday, September 9, 2011 Monday, September 12, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011 Monday, September 12, 2011
Evidence for Pangaea Diagram Notes
Quiz “talk” Video with Questions
Finish Pangaea questions
Warm Up:
1. Write a sentence using each of the following words. DO NOT simply rewrite the definition:
1. lithosphere
2. tectonic plates
3. asthenosphere
Homework: 1. Finish Pangaea questions
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13. Evidences for Pangaea Map
Eurasia
North America
South America
Africa
India
Australia
Antarctica

14. Define specific vocabulary words (see below)
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Divergent Boundaries (pgs 23, ) with RSG
Diagram/Notes/Visualize Movement
Hot Spots
Read Section 1.4 of Unit A
Define specific vocabulary words (see below)
Warm Up: Copy and Match definition with term
Convection Currents - A motion that drives plate movement by transferring heat energy in a material
1. A huge landmass in which all continents were once joined
2 hypothesis that Earth's continents were once joined in a single landmass and gradually moved apart
3 theory that Earth's lithosphere is made up of huge, moving plates that are carried around by motions in the mantle
Plate Boundaries
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
A. Pangaea
B. Sea-floor spreading
C. Plate Tectonics
D. Continental Drift
Divergent Boundaries Vocabulary
Rift Valley – Area a gap is formed between two plates and molten material rises to build new crust
Mid-ocean Ridge – longest chain of mountains on Earth; formed with rift valleys along their center
Hot Spots
- Area where heated rock rises in thin columns (plumes) from the mantle and usually forms a volcano
- The hot spot stays in one place and the tectonic plate above it keeps moving
Homework: 1. Read Section 1.4 of Unit A in textbook
2. Define the following vocabulary words:
Subduction
Continental-continental collision
Oceanic-oceanic subduction
Oceanic-continental subduction
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15. Convergent Boundaries - Diagram/Notes/Model
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Friday, September 16, 2011
Convergent Boundaries - Diagram/Notes/Model
Diagram Completion
NOT SURE
Convergent Boundaries Notes
Warm Up:
1. Copy down the t-chart you made from the previous class. Now that you know a bit more about divergent boundaries, add more information to that column. Be sure to include the definition for each type of boundary!
Be ready to discuss.
Subduction – When one plate sinks beneath the other
Continental – Continental Collision – Occurs when two plates carrying continental crust push together
Both are same density; neither one sinks
Edges will crumple and fold to from mountains
Examples: European Alps
Himalayas
*Both of these mountains still rising higher
Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction – Occurs when one plate with oceanic crust sinks under another oceanic plate
Older plate will always sink b/c its colder and more dense
Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
Island Arcs (Volcanic Islands) – chains of volcanic islands that from due to pressure in the asthenosphere
Examples: - Philippine Islands
- Aleutian Islands of Alaska
- Islands of Japan
Plate Boundaries
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Oceanic-Continental Subduction – Occurs when the denser oceanic plate sinks under the continental plate
- Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
Coastal Mountains- Pressure builds up below continental crust and forces magma upwards causing a volcanic mountain to form
Examples: - Cascade Mountains
- Mount St. Helens (active)
Homework: 1.
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16. Convergent Boundaries Notes
Subduction – When one plate sinks beneath the other
Continental – Continental Collision – Occurs when two plates carrying continental crust push together
Both are same density; neither one sinks
Edges will crumple and fold to from mountains
Examples: European Alps
Himalayas
*Both of these mountains still rising higher

17. Convergent Boundaries Notes Continued…
Oceanic-Oceanic Subduction – Occurs when one plate with oceanic crust sinks under another oceanic plate
Older plate will always sink b/c its colder and more dense
Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
Island Arcs (Volcanic Islands) – chains of volcanic islands that from due to pressure in the asthenosphere
Examples: - Philippine Islands
- Aleutian Islands of Alaska
- Islands of Japan
Oceanic-Continental Subduction – Occurs when the denser oceanic plate sinks under the continental plate
- Sinking crust causes more pressure in asthenosphere
Deep Ocean Trenches – deep canyons that form in the ocean floor as the plate sinks
Coastal Mountains- Pressure builds up below continental crust and forces magma upwards causing a volcanic mountain to form
Examples: - Cascade Mountains
- Mount St. Helens (active)