Mr. Lasselle's Science 8 Page

First Marking Period Assignments

Assignments (Counts for 40% of Grade)

Sep 10 Observations WS (Do for homework)
Sep 13/14 Lab: Science Box (Start in class, finish at home)
Sep 13/14 Sci Meth WS (Do for homework)
Sep 13/14 Lab: Ninkers (Do in class)
Sep 17 Strings Problem (do in class)
Sep 22/23 Lab: Metric Olympics (Do in class)
Sep 22/23 Forces Worksheet (Do for homework, single sided)
Oct 1 Journal 1 (Do for homework)
Oct 14/15 Newton’s Laws Cart Lab (Begin in class, finish at home)
Oct 14/15 Newton’s Laws Pendulum Lab (Begin in class, finish at home)
Oct 14/15 Newton’s Laws Stations Lab (Begin in class, finish at home)
Oct 22 Worksheet: Shadows (Do for homework)
Oct 29 Shadow Notes (Do in class)
Oct 29 Colors WS (Do for homework)
Nov 1/2 Journal 2 (Do for homework)


Quizzes: (Count for 40% of grade)

Sep 13/14 Observations and Inferences
Sep 22/23 Scientific Method, Metrics
Oct 14/15 Newton’s Laws
Oct 29 Shadows


Project: (Counts for 20% of Grade)

Oct 22 Newton’s Laws Project

Journal Instructions

A journal is your chance to write about your journey as a scientist. You can write about something that is scientific that happens to you, an interesting problem that you solved with inquiry. Observations and inferences that you have made, an experiment that you designed to test a hypothesis, etc.
The 3 key ideas about journals are:
1. Journals should be about something important to you and your life. Your descriptions should tell why it is important to you and show concrete evidence that you did the things that you have written about.
2. Journals should focus on science processes (inquiry, experiments, hypotheses, observations, etc.) They should not focus on scientific information. I am not interested in having you write about something that you looked up in a book but something that you experienced. I like the internet as much as the next guy but you should not use the internet for a journal. Your source of understanding needs to be your own observations and experiments, not the internet.
3. Journals must not be about what happens in science class but rather about science in your life outside of class. Your work in class can support your journal and your journal can be about a topic similar to what we did in class but the journal must be about more than what was done in class.
4. Journals will take time to prepare. The writing is only a small part.

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