Thursday, Nov 1

Today in 8th grade science, the 5th period students will be completing a states of matter webquest. The webquest will be due at the end of the period.

Summer School- Thursday, June 28

At station 2 the students will be playing a variety of decimal games. The students may choose from the following websites....

• Adding/Subtracting Fractions
• Multiplying Fractions
• Reducing Fractions
• Creating Ratios
• Decimals and Percents 
• Equivalent Fractions

Wednesday Class

End of Course Exam

Wednesday Class

end of course exam review

Tuesday Class

Today in science, the students will be taking their Chapter 4 Test.

Thursday Class

Today in science, the students will be taking the Chapter 7 Retake Test. After the students finish the test they will be watching a video called "How Hawaii was Made" (Parts 1-4).

Tuesday Class

Today in science class, the students will be taking the Chapter 7 Change Over Time Test.

Tuesday Class

Today in science, the students will be taking the Chapter 3 Earth's History Test. In addition, the students will turn in their chapter 3 test review packets.

Monday Class

Today in science, the students in 1st and 2nd period will be watching a fossil digital lesson. The students in 4th-6th period will be taking the Earth Structures Retake Test.

Friday Class

Today in science class the students will be taking their Earth Structures Retake Test. After the test the students will read the article "How Do Dinosaur Fossils Get to Museums?" by Cindy Grigg. After the students have finished reading they will complete questions pertaining to the article.

http://carro12an.posterous.com/how-the-earth-was-made

Thursday Class

Today in science, the students will be taking their Earth Structures Test (Part Two). After the students finish the test they will view the following videos:

Fossil Hunting
Fossil Record Mystery
Fossils and Plate Tectonics
Finding Dinosaurs
Fossil Found in Kitchen Counter
Fossil Hunters: Cool Jobs

6th Period:

The students will be completing a fossils webquest. After the students finish their webquest they will view the videos above.

Wednesday Class

The students will work on their test review today.

6th Period: Earth Structures Test Part Two

Friday Class

Today in science, the students will be giving their volcano presentations in small groups. The students will take turns presenting their research. As the students wait for their turn to present they will view volcano videos from the following websites:

Kilauea: The World's Most Active Volcano
A Variety of Volcano Videos
How Stuff Works: Volcanoes
Obsessed with Lava
Playing Dangerously in New Zealand

Wednesday Class

Today, the students will continue working on their volcano activity. Tomorrow the students will give their presentations and complete a volcano graphic organizer.

Tuesday Class

The students continued to work on their volcano activity. The students will have tommorow to finish their poster and they will present on Thursday.

Monday Class

Today in science, the students will be introduced to the volcanoes activity they will be working on this week. Each student will be assigned to work in a group. They will work with this group to create a presentation and poster about their assigned type of volcano (shield, cinder cone, composite). The presentations will begin on Thursday.

Thursday Class

Today, we started our lesson on earthquakes. The students completed an earthquake webquest.

Wednesday Class

Today in science, we reviewed the "3 Types of Mountains" graphic organizer. Then, the students answered the question "How can the movement of tectonic plates form mountains?" through a 2 minute quick write. Lastly, the student took a mountain building quiz.

Tuesday Class

Today in science we watched a digital lesson on mountain building. In addition, the students worked on a graphic organizer about the three types of mountains.

The graphic organizer is due tomorrow.

Monday Class

Today in science, the students worked their vocabulary review sheet. In addition, we read a brief article about the different types of mountains.

The students are to hand in their vocabulary review sheet tomorrow.

Friday Class

Today in science the students will be taking the Earth Structures Retake Test. The students will also be using their textbooks to finish their vocabulary review sheet. Once the students finish their work they watched Earth science videos from the following websites:


Volcano Videos
More Volcano Videos
Earthquake Videos
Tsunami Videos