8th grade unit calendar- Error analysis

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday 9-8

Thursday 9-9

Friday 9-10

 

 

 

Expectations, bioglyphs, index cards

 

Goal: to explain how I run my classroom

 

Closure: Complete bioglyph about yourself

Determine bioglyphs through inquiry, find someone who

 

Goal: To come up with definition of inquiry

 

Closure: Come up with a definition for inquiry

Safety Lab

 

Goal: To explain why safety is so important

 

Closure: Look through a paragraph describing sponge bob and determine what he is doing wrong

Science Basics

 

Goal: To explain observations vs inferences

 

Closure: Look at pictures and determine an observation and inference about the picture

Scientific method reading

 

Goal- To define the variables in an experiment

 

Closure: Explain the idea of variables and give me definitions of each

 

Scientific method  notes

 

Goal- To explain why the process of inquiry is so important

 

Candy lab

 

Goal- To determine what goes wrong in an experiment

 

Closure: Explain why the lab was not valid

 

Monday 9-20

Tuesday 9-21

Wednesday 9-22

Thursday 9-23

Friday 9-24

Cartoon variables

 

Goal- To use the knowledge they learned about variables

 

Closure: Explain how each variable was used in one of the descriptions

Paper towel lab

 

Goal-To perform a lab using variables and controls

 

Closure: Work on lab questions to hand in tomorrow

How to graph

 

Goal- To draw and label a graph correctly and analyze mistakes that can be made on graphs

 

Closure: Use a set of data to draw the

Metric  notes

 

Goal- To review the metric system

 

Closure- Practice using the metric system and making some measurements

 Metric lab day 1

 

Goal- To practice measuring with the metric system

 

Closure- Work on lab questions

 

Metric lab day 2

 

Goal- To focus on the idea of density

 

Closure- Summarize the idea of density

Metric practice and review sheet

 

Goal- To be ready for the 1st quiz tomorrow

 

Closure- Determine three things you should review for quiz

Quiz 1

 

Goal- To show what they have learned about inquiry and metric system

 

Closure- How do you think you did on the first quiz?