- science knowledge
- depth level
- creativity
- general structure
We will begin presenting projects on Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Planetary Projects
Once we get back from break, you will have one day to meet up and refresh your brain about what you were planning on presenting for your planetary project. On Tuesday, we will have laptops available, but in some classes there will not be enough computers for every student, but there WILL be enough computers for one per group. You'll need to use this full class time to work on your project keeping in mind the content requirements (see the 8th Grade website for rubric). But also think about the big ideas:
Friday, April 15, 2011
8th Grade Yearbook
Please complete the following surveys for the 8th Grade Best section of the yearbook.
You are only allowed to choose one boy and one girl for each category.
Bridge Recommends: right click on survey and choose open in a new tab!
Please complete ALL three surveys!!!!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Lost in Space....
Well, hopefully not! But it could happen.
We have discussed the Apollo 13 space mission and all of the problems that mission encountered. But, the hard work and problem solving of mission control along with the astronauts determination, they were able to make it home safely.
With this premise, 2 class periods were chosen to be NASA Mission Control. These classes were given 4 problems with limited resources to try and solve in a limited time. Each mission control wrote procedures for the astronauts to follow.
The other two class periods are the astronauts stuck in space! They are given the procedures to try and follow. However, our astronaut groups had to do a lot of tweaking to the procedures that they found to have lack some specific details to help them solve the problems.
I told each of the groups that this is not just a class grade, this a grade depending on the success of the astronaut groups. Can they execute the procedures in order to make it back safely???
Third period received 4th period's procedures and successfully made it back to earth! Yeah!
Second period received 7th period's procedures and...with just 11 minutes left to spare also completed all of the tasks!
Congratulations to all of the hard work and collaboration for all the classes!!!
We have discussed the Apollo 13 space mission and all of the problems that mission encountered. But, the hard work and problem solving of mission control along with the astronauts determination, they were able to make it home safely.
With this premise, 2 class periods were chosen to be NASA Mission Control. These classes were given 4 problems with limited resources to try and solve in a limited time. Each mission control wrote procedures for the astronauts to follow.
The other two class periods are the astronauts stuck in space! They are given the procedures to try and follow. However, our astronaut groups had to do a lot of tweaking to the procedures that they found to have lack some specific details to help them solve the problems.
I told each of the groups that this is not just a class grade, this a grade depending on the success of the astronaut groups. Can they execute the procedures in order to make it back safely???
Third period received 4th period's procedures and successfully made it back to earth! Yeah!
Second period received 7th period's procedures and...with just 11 minutes left to spare also completed all of the tasks!
Congratulations to all of the hard work and collaboration for all the classes!!!
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
This week...
1st off - Congratulations to Kaycee Miller for winning the 8th grade science fair!!
This week we are beginning our unit about space. The classes will be working on different projects at different times to accomplish a common goal. After watching Apollo 13 a couple of weeks ago, I had the idea to organize the classes to set up like NASA mission control and astronauts stuck in space. I hope that it proves to be an interesting project with successful outcomes and that no one gets stuck in space!!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Beginning the space unit...
Today, we are beginning to discuss what we know (and don't know) about space. There are a lot of misconceptions about space. Today, we explored the International Space Station- which students do not know much about -- check out this website to learn more -- http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/ISSRG/
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