Motion and Forces Take Home Test

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Motion and Forces Take Home Test

Fluids in Motion Notes

Class Notes from 6 December 2007

Making Cartesian Divers

Buoyancy Boats and Weblab

Pressure and Buoyancy Notes

Class Notes from 30 November 2007

Newton's Laws Notes

Class Notes from 13 November 2007

Gravity and Motion Homework

Gravity and Motion Assignment Due Friday, November 16.

Balloon Blast-Off

Gravity Calculations Homework

Homework from 12 November

Gravity Notes

Class Notes from 12 November 2007

Recent Labs on Mass-Weight and Gravity

Mass-Weight Lab



Gravity Lab

Motion and Forces Part 1 Review

Motion and Forces Part 1 Review

Feather and Hammer Experiment on the Moon

Gravity Practice Problems Homework

Gravity Practice Problems

Friction and Gravity Class Notes

Class Notes from 5 and 6 November 2007

Friction Lab

Exploring Forces with a House of Cards

The record setting group supported more than 405 grams with their house of cards.

Motion Calculations Practice

Motion Calculations Practice Sheet

Exploring Acceleration Lab

Students designed their own experiments to determine the acceleration of the toy cars.

Acceleration Practice Problems

Acceleration Practice

Circular Motion SAS Activity

Circular Motion SAS Activity

Matter Calculations Practice Problems

Calculations Practice Problems

Answers:
1. 56.98L
2. 244.05 degrees C
3. 125 cm cubed
4. 613.5 mm Hg
5. 0.4 g/cm cubed
6. 22.03 cm cubed
7. 1327.9 g
8. 0.25 g/mL
9. 90 g

Exploring Motion Lab

Observing and Measuring Motion Notes

Class Notes - 15 October 2007

Separating Mixtures Lab

Intro to Matter Unit Test Study Guide

Intro to Matter Unit Test Study Guide

Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures

ClassNotes from 10 and 11 of October

Changes of State Notes

Class Notes from 9 October 2007

Gas Laws Practice Problems

Homework Assignment for 9 October 2007

Gas Laws Class Notes

Class Notes - 8 October 2007

Non-Newtonian Fluids

Video shown in Class:

Class Notes

Physical/Chemical Changes and Properties Notes from 24 September

States of Matter Part I Notes from 26 September

Exploring Density Lab

Introduction to Matter Class Notes

Class Notes from 20 September 2007

Scientifically Speaking Guidelines and Dates

Scientifically Speaking Guidelines and Deadlines

Informal Lab Report Guidelines and Template

Informal Lab Report Guidelines with Sample Report

MS-Word Template for Informal Lab Report

Experimental Design with Sponge Creatures

Metric System Review

Please complete this with no outside help. It will not be graded - I just would like to see how much review we need to do of the metric system.

SI Review Sheet

Class Notes

All class notes are in PDF format. If you don't have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader please click here to download it.

Observations and Inferences - 29 August 2007

Scientific Methods and Design - 30 August 2007

Branches of Physical Science Assignment

In class today you chose a branch of physical science from the bulletin board. Now you have to find out what it is and create a shape to represent it. If you are starting online I would recommend that you use the HighBeam Encyclopedia - see the link to the right.

Guidelines for Branches of Science Assignment

This assignment is due Friday, August 31.

Welcome to Physical Science

Welcome back to school! I hope you had a fantastic summer and are looking forward to your 8th grade year. You can always find copies of anything that I created for class here at my blog. I hope that it will be a useful resource for you.

First Day of Class Handouts:
8th Grade Physical Science Course Info
Marti's Guide to Success
Learner Profile

You should keep a copy of the course information and the guide to success in your science notebook at all times. If you misplace the one I gave you please print out another copy.