Blog Archives - 8th Grade Science

10/29 & 10/30

10/28/2012

Learning Targets
1. Interpret and rank water test results analyzing water quality.
2. Review field trip expectations.

No GQ...... Get out your Macro-Invertebrate papers and begin your constructed response on the back. You will use your water testing bibles to rank and analyze water quality at the little kentucky river. Turn them into the worms when you are finished.

10/25 & 10/26

10/25/2012

Learning Targets
1. Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field.
2. Interpret a dichotomous key that compares macro-invertebrates that live in an aquatic ecosystem by their tolerance level to pollution.

10/24 Wacky Wednesday

10/23/2012

Learning Targets
1. Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field.
2. Analyze the affects on aquatic organisms if these tests are outside their normal range.

Would you drink this water?

No GQ...... Get your posters out and ready to present.

10/22 & 10/23

10/21/2012

Learning Targets
1. Investigate a water quality test and create a presentation that teaches others about the test and how to conduct it in the field.
2. Analyze the affects on aquatic organisms if these tests are outside their normal range.

Daily Agenda
Synthesis
WaterTesting Experts
Presentations

No GQ...... Synthesize what you have learned so far on Targets 1, 2 and 3. This is located on the back of your Topo map exercises from Friday.

10/19 Zombie Flippin Friday!!!

10/18/2012

Learning Targets
1. Interpret topographic maps in order to identify the micro-waterhed that I live in.
2. Synthesize what I have learned so far regarding Nitrogen, watersheds, water cycle, pollution and topography.

Guiding Question page 27
1. What is the difference between point and non-point pollution?
2. Which do you think is more harmful to a watershed? Why?

Daily Agenda
GQ
Reading a Topographic Map
Synthesis

10/17 & 10/18

10/15/2012

Learning Targets
1. Identify sources of point and non-point source pollution in a watershed using the water cycle.
2. Create a watershed using topography and analyze the affects of pollution while representing the layers of the water cycle.

Daily Agenda
GQ
Make Your Own Watershed
Reading Topographic Maps

Guiding Question Page 25
1. What is topography?
2. What is elevation?
3. How does water flow?

10/15 & 10/16 Welcome Back!

10/5/2012

Learning Targets:
1. Investigate the Nitrogen Cycle and how humans are changing the cycle with the use of fertilizers.
2. Use the water cycle to identify potential contaminants of point and non-point source pollutants.
3. Create your very own watershed.

Daily Agenda
Nitrogen Cycle Passport Activity
Nitrogen Cycle Text
Water Cycle Cloz
Create your own Watershed

10/15 & 16 Guiding Questions Page 24
1. Make a list of the different places you visited as the Nitrogen Atom. These are the reservoirs of Nitrogen.
2. List what you remember abou the parts of the water cycle.

10/3 & 10/4

10/2/2012

Daily Agenda
Study Guide Reveiw
Unit Test
Watershed Unit Outline
Nitrogen Cycle

Learning Targets
1. Investigate the Nitrogen Cycle and how humans are changing the cycle with the use of fertilizers.

Dead zones in the Gulf due to eutrophication and nitrogen in fertilizers from Mississippi River Basin.

Mother Nature Cleans •Wetlands can remove 20%-60% of heavy metals in the waters moving through them. •Microbes in ecosystems can change herbicides and pesticides so that they are no longer toxic.