Posts for ‘Grade 8’ 
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Quest draws to a close!
Grade 8, we are almost finished with our research papers! Please send me a final copy of your entire paper (all mini papers attached as one document) by Monday! I will edit and get back to you for a final copy. Please indent each new paragraph, double space the entire paper and put a proper [...]
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Famous Scientists
8th Graders are going to be working on an interdisciplinary research project about a famous scientist next week, linking their findings to their Global Awareness studies on human rights. As students uncover information about many of our well-known founding fathers of modern science, they will soon start to see that sharing new ideas can have [...]
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Preparing for the Tamblingan visit
Now that Grade 8 has completed their environmental awareness presentations, I will look for a place for them to attempt it in public. Most likely, it will be a local school. We have since moved on to the next topic, which revolves around a visit to a couple sites near lake Tamblingan. The project there [...]
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Animal Farm updated reading schedule!
Hey Grade 8, you all did a fabulous job with the Windmill activity yesterday. I was impressed with your teamwork and creativity! Because of the time it took to complete our Windmills, we lost reading time. If you did not read aloud with me yesterday, please read chapter 2 and 3 tonight! I have had [...]
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Grade 8 Maths – Week 5, term 2.2
Current work We must complete classwork and tests for chapters 6 & 7 (see compete details in previous blog notes) before Grade camp next week. Several students have already done the test for chapter 6 – Measures and the test for chapter 7 – Calculations is now available. After camp we will start on chapter [...]
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Student Teaching Resumes
The students will be back in action this week as we present the environmental impacts of the internal combustion engine, railroads, coal mining, and iron and steel mills. By also focusing on the 5 W’s and an H behind the advent of each topic, we’ll broaden our knowledge of the industrial revolution and its impacts [...]
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Matter of Degree
8th Graders are going to take a break from electricity and magnetism to do a special lab on exothermic/endothermic reactions. It is a good lab for them to do independently while I am away on the Odyssey Institute field trip with 7th Grade this week. Students will experience what an endothermic/exothermic reaction is, then they [...]
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Animal Farm!
Grade 8, we will be reading chapter 2 in Animal Farm tomorrow in class, as well as watching a background power point on the novel as an allegory and the Russian Revolution. ***Please bring in any recycling (paper, boxes, cardboard, plastic, glass, etc.) for class on Wednesday as we will be doing a project connected [...]
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Finalizing the Environmental Awareness Presentations
The grade 8s have been working fairly well over the past week, developing their environmental awareness presentations. I have yet to line up a school for them to present it, but a couple leads are in the works. The students broke into three groups, and have developed presentations to raise awareness of the value of [...]
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Grade 8 Maths – Week 4, term 2.2
Current work: We are coming to the end of the time that we can spend on chapters 6 – Measures & 7 – Calculations. Checkout tests for these chapters will be available from Monday next week. In preparation for this all students must have completed for assigned written work for chapter 6 by Monday afternoon. [...]
