2008-2009
Daily Assignments 
1st Six Weeks
1st 6 Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
August 18-22
 First Day for Students
Draw a scientist
 Penny Drop Lab
Retrievable Items (Stranded!)
 Engineering Design Process
 Bubbles Activity
 Purple and White Game
Dance and Movie
August 25-29
 Calculating Speed
Using a scale activity
Begin Design Challenge
 Design Challenge: A storm is coming!
 Quiz over Engineering Process
Turn in Bellringers
 No School
September 2-5
No School Notes- Matter and Measurement
Measure items in room
 Notes- Mass, Volume, Density, and Weight
 Begin Metric Conversions
 Metric conversions continued....
Bellringers Due!
September 8-12 Review Metrics
Study Guide
 Go over study guide and turn in
 Metrics Test
Science Fair
Bellringers Due
September 15-19
 Computer Lab
Disease Project
Test Retakes
 Computer Lab
Outline Due
 Computer Lab
Finish Powerpoint
 Begin Presentations
Notes on Bacteria and Viruses
 Finish Presentations
Notes on Infectious Diseases
September 22-26
 Definitions p. 263
and answer 1-6 on pg. 270
 Go over noninfectious diseases
 Just Wait
signed permission slip must be turned in to attend event
 Just Wait
 Bellringers Due
Lab Activity

Sept. 29-Oct. 3
 Begin Graphing
Make graphs in class
 Quiz over Sections 2 and 3 in chapter 9
Finish graphing worksheet (in class)
 Tuesday, September 30 - - End of First Six Weeks
Important Dates:
August 16~ Parent Orientation
August 20~ First Day of School
August 31 & September 3 ~ No School
September 21~ Picture Day
September 25 & 27~  Parent Conferences
  October 10~ Grade Cards
Assignments 
2nd Six Weeks
2nd 6 Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
October 1-3 Finish Graphing Worksheet (turn in)
Gummy Bear Graphing Lab
 Notes over Earth's inner layers
Draw a picture of Earth's layers and describe
 Turn in bellringers
United Streaming- Earth's Layers
October 6-10
 Notes over Minerals (in class)
Worksheet in class over Mohs Scale
 Notes over rocks and rock cycle
Assignment: Draw a picture of the rock cycle
 Grade Cards go Home
Turn in bellringers
October 13-17




October 20-24

Progress Reports
No School!N
October 27- 31




November 3-7
No School-Inservice


November 10-14
No School- Inservice

End of Second Six Weeks
Important Dates:
October 24~ No School
November 4 and 11~  No School~ Teacher Inservice Day
November 20~  Grade Cards




Assignments 
3rd Six Weeks

3rd 6 Weeks
 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
November 12-16
November 19-23
Thanksgiving Dance and Movie
 1/2 Day
 No School~ Thanksgiving Break
November 26-30
 Kinetic, Potential Energy, Law of Conservation of Energy
Review
 Review Day
Plastics Lab
 Field Trip
 8th Grade Placement Testing
 Resources Test (Chapter 14)
December 3-7




December 10-14
 Plastics Lab, Begin Simple Machines
 Simple Machine Notes
 Kuder Assessment: 1st and 6th Periods
Quiz: Simple Machines
 Kuder Assessment: 3rd, 4th, and 5th Periods
 Begin Symbiosis
December 17-21 Mutualism, Commensalism, and Parasitism
 1:00 Wrestling
Christmas Dance and Movie

 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break
December 24-28
 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break
January 1-4
 No School
Winter Break		 No School
Winter Break


January 7-11

 Organization of Ecosystem, Biomes
 Food Chains/Webs, Abiotic and Biotic Factors
Organization Drawing
 Adaptations
Design an organism and describe the biome it lives in
 Review all notes for Test
 Test (Symbiotic Relationships, Biomes, Food Webs, Adaptations)
January 14

 Cell Review
Go over Test
 January 14-- End of Third Six Weeks
Important Dates:
December 20-January 2~ Winter Break-- No School
January 22~  Grade Cards
Assignments 
  4th Six Weeks
4th 6 Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday		 Friday
January 15-18
No School
Administrative Day
 Begin Classification
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
 Classification Keys
Binomial Nomenclature
2:00 Pep Rally
 Begin Dichotomous Keys
Student Lab with Dich. Key
January 21-25 No School
 Snow Day
 TCAP Coach Practice
 Grade Cards go Home
 Team Reward Day
Winter Dance and Movie
Jan 28 - Feb 1 Classification Test
 Parent Conferences
 Dominant vs. Recessive Traits
Reading Chart Due
 Parent Conferences
Punnett Squares Notes
 Punnett Squares Practice
February 4-8 DNA Notes
HW: DNA Drawing
 No School- Election Day
 Genetics with a Smile Activity

 Sponge Bob Punnett Squares
 More Punnett Square practice
Quiz
February 11-15 Notes- Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Drawings of Meiosis and Mitosis (HW)
 Notes- Complete and Incomplete Metamorphosis
 No School-Sickness
 No School-Sickness
 No School
February 18-22
 No School Genetic Engineering discussion....Metamorphosis Drawing Due
 Hand out Study Guide
Sojournor Truth at 12:30
 Go over Study Guide and Practice Punnett Squares
 Genetics Test
February 25-29 Go over Test
Notes over Matter
Titanic Discussion
 Review Density Problems
Notes- Phases of Matter
p.30 in Matter Book
 Mealworms Lab
Notes on Phase Changes
Balloon Activity

 Notes-Elements, Chemical Equations, Atoms, etc.
Begin balancing chemical equations
 Quiz over Matter
8:15 Sadie Hawkins Brunch
March 3-7
March 3-- End of 4th Six Weeks
Important Dates:
February 5~ TCAP Writing Assessment
March 12~  Grade Cards
Assignments 
5th Six Weeks
5th 6 Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
March 4-7 Notes- Balancing Chemical Equations
Worksheet over Balancing Chem. Eq.
 Finish Worksheet
Atomic Structure/Bal. Chem. Eq. Worksheet
Milk Lab (Chem./Phy. Changes)

 Notes over Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
Quiz over matter
 8th Grade visit to Sevier Co. High School
March 10-14 Notes over Periodic Table and Rates of Reaction
 Notes over pH
pH Lab
 Study Guide handed out
 Go over Study Guide
 Matter Test
March 17-21



1/2 Day
March 24- 28 No School~ Spring Break
March 31-
April 4 		Bubble Gum Lab
 Notes- Newton's Three Laws of Motion
 Balloon Rocket Lab (outside)
 Forces and Motion Study Guide
 Forces and Motion
 Test
Rescue and Reward
April 7-11 TCAP Review
 TCAP Review
 TCAP Review
 TCAP Review
 TCAP Review
April 14-18 TCAP Testing TCAP Testing TCAP Testing TCAP Testing TCAP Testing
April 21-25
April 21-- End of 5th Six Weeks
Important Dates:
March 20~ Spring Picture Day
April 14-18 ~ TCAP Testing
April 30~  Grade Cards/ Free Style Friends Picture Day




Assignments 
6th Six Weeks
6th 6 Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
April 21-25
 Begin Planet Project
 Discussion- How was the
universe created?
Finish Planet Project
 Slime Lab
 Solar System
Jeopardy
Rescue, Reward
April 28- May 2




May 5-9




May 12-16




May 19-23




May 26- 30
No School



June 2-4
No School
Administrative Day
Last Day of School!
Pick up Grade Cards
Have a safe and happy Summer!
Important Dates:
  May 26~ No School
June 3~  No Schoo l~ Administrative Day
June 4~  Last Day of School/ Grade Cards