Happy February All! We have been plunged right into the middle of lots of learning. You should have received a Science Fair Packet on Tuesday last week, with things to help your child with their project. We dug deeper into Chemistry this week, had Valentine's Day and Mr. Musser is beginning to take on more of the teaching. There is a lot happening here.

If I haven't received a parent/guardian signed Science Fair Sheet from you, I am trying to contact you to be sure that you know about it.

Progress Reports went home from all 8+(Awesome) core teachers today. Please have your child return any missing work in to me as soon as possible. Also, return the progress report to me on Monday signed for another assignment grade. Thanks.

Let's have a great week!

Science

Monday, February 18

We will be finishing any hours that did not complete all of lesson 8.3 on Behavior of Gases. Then we will be reviewing the Scientific Method by using two activities, "Bursting Balloons" (Charles's Law) and "Amazing Marshmallows" (Boyle's Law). During each of these activities, we will focus on our hypothesis and variables.

Tuesday, February 19

Today, we will be preparing to begin working in the Science Lab. We will be going over lab safety and signing a lab contract. It is so important that we follow the rules in the lab so that EVERYONE is safe. Please remind your child that you expect them to follow the rules and routines of a lab. Thank you.

Homework:
We are running about 1 day behind on the Science Fair Calendar. Please turn in your Hypothesis and Variables Worksheet from your Science Fair Packet.

Wednesday, February 20

All class periods except 3rd will be going into the lab today. We will be completing a simple Design Your Own Lab on particles in a gas responding to temperature. Our focus will be on practicing our Lab Safety and using the Scientific Method for the Science Fair.

Thursday, February 21

We will begin lesson 8.5 on Uses of Fluids. We will be learning about buoyant force, Archimedes principle, Pascal's principle, Bernoulli's principle, and Venturi effect. We will work on this lesson for today and tomorrow. During today's lesson, we will take information off the PowerPoint and make clay boats to explore buoyancy.

Notes: 8.5%20Uses%20of%20Fluids.ppt

Friday, February 22

Today we will continue with lesson 8.5 from Thursday (see Thursday). We will learn about Bernoulli's principle with a toilet paper launcher and a paper demo. What fun!

Global Warming

Tuesday, February 19

Finish the video, "An Inconvenient Truth".

Thursday, February 21

Begin student summit on Global Warming.