Welcome to the 8th grade Science PBwiki with Mr. Rovere. 

Week of 1/5  Hayden and Kyle, I will be posting the daily assignments for each section.  For Monday, it is the worksheet I sent with Kyle.  Good luck!! 

Week of 11/17

Mon-Wed: Science Fair is Wednesday so projects need to be completed by then.  We have the Maclab on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday so we can work on the projects in class.  Posterboards are for sale for $2.50 in my class.  Thursday and Friday are the last days of the Trimester and we will be finishing up a few things.  Class 8B has earned the end of the trimester party and will be having the fiesta on Friday.

Week of 10/13

Mon/Tue: continue mini project on radius and distance of planets.  we will be adding facts about each planet and telling whether they are habitable or not, coloring them, and hanging them up in my room.

Wed-Thur: working on Science Fair!!!  Purpose, hypothesis, materials, and procedure will be due by the end of the week.

Fri:  Phases of the moon activity

Week of 10/6

Mon:  CSAP practice questions.  This information was released from the CDE and we use them often.

Tue:  Astronomy Introduction - Slideshow and Rovere will sing the Galaxy Song by Monty Python

Wed:  Science Fair topic due today.  This is the first deadline for Science Fair, the only thing that is due is the subject, you should have narrowed down your idea by today.

Thur and Fri:  We will be working on a mini project thur and fri dealing with the radius' and distances of the 8 planets and the not so planet Pluto.  HW:  draw the distances and sizes of the planets, color each one.

Week of 9/29

Mon:  Grade Measurement Tests

Tue:  Pre Lab for Layering Lab.  Each Student needs to write a procedure that they will follow tomorrow in order to find the density of their substance.  HW: Procedure for lab

Wed: Layering Lab. HW, data/graph and conclusion for Layering Lab.

Thur:  Test Retakes.  No HW

Fri:  By Monday each student needs to know what they plan on doing for science fair.  They need to have their purpose by Monday.  The purpose needs to include why they chose the subject, what specifically they plan to learn, background information, and the importance of their project.  Each student needs to have a signature from parents so that parents know what their child is working on.  HW: Choose specific science fair topic and write the purpose.  Get parent signature.

I'd like to have a copy of the intro letter on file for each student for medical reasons.  If your child accidentally misplaced their copy, here is one you can download.

 IntroLetter.doc