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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Week of December 19
Factors Which Affect Reaction Rate lab due Wednesday. Two graphs and a conclusion.
Honors: Page 17 in the gold packet Due on Wednesday.
Honors: Page 17 in the gold packet Due on Wednesday.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Week of 12/3/11
Quiz on Friday - Elements, compounds and mixtures NOTES
Monday 12/5/11: Complete lab pages 8,9,10 in gold packet.
Tuesday 12/6/11: Complete page 7 in gold packet. Numbers 1-40 only
Wednesday 12/7/11: Page 5 in the gold packet
Thursday 12/8/11: Study
Quiz on Friday - Elements, compounds and mixtures
Monday 12/5/11: Complete lab pages 8,9,10 in gold packet.
Tuesday 12/6/11: Complete page 7 in gold packet. Numbers 1-40 only
Wednesday 12/7/11: Page 5 in the gold packet
Thursday 12/8/11: Study
Quiz on Friday - Elements, compounds and mixtures
Monday, November 28, 2011
Week of November 28th
Monday: complete the introduction to "Build an Atomic Model"
Tuesday: atoms family
Monday: complete the introduction to "Build an Atomic Model"
Tuesday: atoms family
Monday, November 14, 2011
Periodic Table of ELements Project
Gigantic Eighth Grade Periodic Table Poster Project
The Project Outline (download if you lose yours)
An Example of an "A" level Poster!! - (using an Element I made up)
Please be sure to cite your sources - do not cite our class blog as a source, please give me the name of the website you took information from. Add your sources to the information page of your project.
Use the LINKS Below to research your element. Be sure to use your rubric as a guide!!
This site will help you find the number of protons, electron and neutrons in your elementUse this site to find some interesting facts regarding your element
Some additional Sites:
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Week of 10/17/11
UNITE TEST on Friday! Lab safety, Scientific measurement, scietific method and graphing
Monday 10/17: Finish paper towel lab. Well-written coclusion paragraph and bar graph
honors: pages 11& 12 in Scientific Method notes
Tuesday 10/18: pages 18 and 19 in notes
honors: pages 13&14 in notes
Wednesday 10/19: Honors - lab write-up due on Friday click here to download guidelines
Monday 10/17: Finish paper towel lab. Well-written coclusion paragraph and bar graph
honors: pages 11& 12 in Scientific Method notes
Tuesday 10/18: pages 18 and 19 in notes
honors: pages 13&14 in notes
Wednesday 10/19: Honors - lab write-up due on Friday click here to download guidelines
Monday, October 3, 2011
Week of 10/3/2011
Monday: Pages 18 and 19 in pink notes - Finish Graph for Ball Bounce
Honors: Mass and Volume lab write up due Wednesday 10/5/11
Tuesday: Grade detail reports signed
Honors: Finish Lab write-up and the graphing homework
Quiz for everyone on Thursday
Honors: Mass and Volume lab write up due Wednesday 10/5/11
Tuesday: Grade detail reports signed
Honors: Finish Lab write-up and the graphing homework
Quiz for everyone on Thursday
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Week of September 26th
Monday 9/26: Complete pages 13 and 14 in sci measurement packet.
Honors - Complete page 7
Quiz Tomorrow!
Tuesday 9/27: no homework. HONORS: Complete page 8 in packet.
Honors - Complete page 7
Quiz Tomorrow!
Tuesday 9/27: no homework. HONORS: Complete page 8 in packet.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Week of September 19th
Monday - no homework
Tuesday- no homework
Wednesday - vocabulary
1) Mass
2) Triple beam balance
3) Volume
4) Graduated cylinder
5)length
You will find examples and definition in your scientific measurement notes packet.
Thursday
Friday - Quiz on measurement
Tuesday- no homework
Wednesday - vocabulary
1) Mass
2) Triple beam balance
3) Volume
4) Graduated cylinder
5)length
You will find examples and definition in your scientific measurement notes packet.
Thursday
Friday - Quiz on measurement
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Week of Septmeber 13
Safety Poster due Friday 9/16/11
Honors Safety skit due Wenesday 9/21/11
Course outline and lab safety contract signed by parents due Wed 9/14/11
Honors Safety skit due Wenesday 9/21/11
Course outline and lab safety contract signed by parents due Wed 9/14/11
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Week of May 23
HONORS: Rube Goldberg presentations this week. Article on Environmental disaster due Wednesday. Discussion questions due Wednesday.
Periods 3-9: Scientific Method Reveiw sheets due Tuesday 5/24/11
State Test - lab portion on May 31st and June 1st
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=1262B103-89BA-4CAD-80A9-405B9FE488D1&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=DSCE
Periods 3-9: Scientific Method Reveiw sheets due Tuesday 5/24/11
State Test - lab portion on May 31st and June 1st
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=1262B103-89BA-4CAD-80A9-405B9FE488D1&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=DSCE
Friday, May 20, 2011
Week of May 16
ALL CLASSES: Finish yellow review packet. We are preapring for the state test this week and next! Please be here!!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Week of May 9th
Monday May 9th - first two pages in yellow review packet
Tuesday May 10th - pages 3 and 4 in the yellow review packet.
Wednesday May 11th - pages 5 and 6 in the yellow review packet.
Tuesday May 10th - pages 3 and 4 in the yellow review packet.
Wednesday May 11th - pages 5 and 6 in the yellow review packet.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Week of May 2nd
Monday 5/2/11: What's the charge?
Tuesday 5/3/11: What is a magnet?
Wednesday 5/4/11: Finish the shark key we began in class.
No homework Thursday or Friday.
Tuesday 5/3/11: What is a magnet?
Wednesday 5/4/11: Finish the shark key we began in class.
No homework Thursday or Friday.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Honors Rube Goldberg Assignment
HAPPY EARTH DAY!
Rough Draft presentations and drawings due Monday 4/25/11.
Click here for the project outline.
Final Draft due May 6th, Presentations begin May 9th. Please make sure your technology is up and ready to go!!!!
Rough Draft presentations and drawings due Monday 4/25/11.
Click here for the project outline.
Final Draft due May 6th, Presentations begin May 9th. Please make sure your technology is up and ready to go!!!!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Links to the Japanese Tsunami And Nuclear Reactor News
What's going on with the nuclear reactors?
Here is a great animation on what exactly is going on in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
More on the leaking radiation.
Compared to Chernobyl
In favor of Nuclear Energy
Cracked rods can release radioactive iodine into the water that surrounds and cools the fuel rods. There, it circulates with the cooling water throughout the system, ending up in the airborne, liquid, and solid wastes from the reactor. From time to time, reactor gas capture systems release gases, including iodine, to the environment under applicable regulations.
Anywhere spent nuclear fuel is handled, there is a chance that iodine-129 and iodine-131 will escape into the environment. Nuclear fuel reprocessing plants dissolve the spent fuel rods in strong acids to recover plutonium and other valuable materials. In the process, they also release iodine-129 and -131 into the airborne, liquid, and solid waste processing systems. In the U.S., spent nuclear fuel is no longer reprocessed, because of concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation.
Currently, spent nuclear fuel remains in temporary storage at nuclear power plants around the country. If the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain opens, it will provide permanent disposal for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive wastes. Wherever spent nuclear fuel is stored, the short-lived iodine-131 it contains will decay away quickly and completely. However, the long-lived iodine-129 will remain for millions of years. Keeping it from leaking into the environment, requires carefully designed, long-term safeguards.
The detonation of nuclear weapons also releases iodine-129 into the environment. Atmospheric testing in the 1950's and 60's released radioactive iodine to the atmosphere which has disseminated around the world, and is now found at very low levels in the environment. Most I-129 in the environment came from weapons testing.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/iodine.html#use
Ring of Fire
Power Plants on the ring of fire - good idea?
How would US nuclear power plants hold up?
Live blog
What in the heck causes a Tsunami??
Here is a great animation on what exactly is going on in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
More on the leaking radiation.
Compared to Chernobyl
In favor of Nuclear Energy
Exposure to Iodine-129 and Iodine-131
How do iodine-129 and iodine-131 get into the environment?
Iodine-129 and iodine-131 are gaseous fission products that form within fuel rods as they fission. Unless reactor chemistry is carefully controlled, they can build up too fast, increasing pressure and causing corrosion in the rods. As the rods age, cracks or wholes may breach the rods.Cracked rods can release radioactive iodine into the water that surrounds and cools the fuel rods. There, it circulates with the cooling water throughout the system, ending up in the airborne, liquid, and solid wastes from the reactor. From time to time, reactor gas capture systems release gases, including iodine, to the environment under applicable regulations.
Anywhere spent nuclear fuel is handled, there is a chance that iodine-129 and iodine-131 will escape into the environment. Nuclear fuel reprocessing plants dissolve the spent fuel rods in strong acids to recover plutonium and other valuable materials. In the process, they also release iodine-129 and -131 into the airborne, liquid, and solid waste processing systems. In the U.S., spent nuclear fuel is no longer reprocessed, because of concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation.
Currently, spent nuclear fuel remains in temporary storage at nuclear power plants around the country. If the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain opens, it will provide permanent disposal for spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive wastes. Wherever spent nuclear fuel is stored, the short-lived iodine-131 it contains will decay away quickly and completely. However, the long-lived iodine-129 will remain for millions of years. Keeping it from leaking into the environment, requires carefully designed, long-term safeguards.
The detonation of nuclear weapons also releases iodine-129 into the environment. Atmospheric testing in the 1950's and 60's released radioactive iodine to the atmosphere which has disseminated around the world, and is now found at very low levels in the environment. Most I-129 in the environment came from weapons testing.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/iodine.html#use
Ring of Fire
Power Plants on the ring of fire - good idea?
How would US nuclear power plants hold up?
Live blog
What in the heck causes a Tsunami??
Friday, March 11, 2011
Honors Newton's Law Comic Strip
Click here to download a copy of the criteria and the rubric for newton's Comic Strip. Due Monday March 21st - presentations begin.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Bill Nye Motion
Video on Bill Nye - Motion
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=8442
http://www.gamequarium.org/cgi-bin/search/linfo.cgi?id=8442
Friday, February 11, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Energy Resources Webquest
Have you lost your project outline? Click here for another.
These sites have information on almost all alternative energy resources:
These sites have information on almost all alternative energy resources:
Explore More
Department of Energy's Kids Zone
Alternative Energy Resources Info
http://go.grolier.com/login: nvhhome password: btboces)
EBSCO: login & password - newarkvlyhs
Learn all about how we generate electricity here
Alliant Energy
Alliant Kids
Energy Animations
NOVA energy videos - the pros and cons of alternative energy
New York Department of Environmental Conservation
New York's energy resources
Wind
Alternative Energy Resources Info
American Wind Energy Association
KidWind
Windy Flats - a successful wind farm
20% wind energy by 2030
American Wind Energy Association
KidWind
Windy Flats - a successful wind farm
20% wind energy by 2030
Biomass
Advantages and disadvantges of corn ethanol
How corn ethanol is made
Ethanol and biodiesel
more pros and cons
Ethanol in New York State
biofuels video
How corn ethanol is made
Ethanol and biodiesel
more pros and cons
Ethanol in New York State
biofuels video
Geothermal
Nuclear Energy
Hydropower
Alternative Energy Resources Info
Creating jobs with hydropower
Hydrogen
Fuel Cells
Honda's Hydrogen Car
Hydrogen Power
How fuel cells work
Hydrogen as a fuel
The benefits of hydrogen as a fuel
The disadvantages
Fuell Cell stations in US
NY's first hydrogen powered boat
Hydrogen as a "clean fuel"
Hydrogen car
Fossil Fuels
Propane Education and Research CouncilCreating jobs with hydropower
Hydrogen
Fuel Cells
Honda's Hydrogen Car
Hydrogen Power
How fuel cells work
Hydrogen as a fuel
The benefits of hydrogen as a fuel
The disadvantages
Fuell Cell stations in US
NY's first hydrogen powered boat
Hydrogen as a "clean fuel"
Hydrogen car
Fossil Fuels
American Petroleum Institute
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