8th Grade:

                     Table of Contents                  

1st Semester

Handouts:                                                                   

 Topic of the Day Calendar         

1. Materials/ Classroom procedures

2. Homework policy/ Discipline policy

3. Lab Safety Rules/Daily Trivia

4. Lab Rubric/ Binder Rubric

5. Scavenger Hunt/Safety in the Lab

6. Science Current Events/ Current Events Practice Sheet

7. Notetaking- Ch 1 Exploring & Classifying Life 

8.Overview: Exploring & Classifying Life/Section 1 & 2

9. Section 2/3 Reinforcement

10. Enrichment Activities: Living or Nonliving/Redi's Experiments

11. Dichotomous Keys

12. Key Terms Exploring & Classifying Life/Overview Sections 3 & 4 Life

13. Sec 4 How are Living Things Classified/Sec. 4 Enrichment

14.Using the Microscope- Field of View & Magnification

15. Living Things Review

16. Sec 1 Protists Content Mastery/Reinforcement

17. Protista Notetaking

18 Classification of Life Video

19.  Bacteria Notes

20. Bacteria: Content Mastery Overview / Directed Reading Section 1/

21. Section 2 Bacteria in Your Life/Key Terms Bacteria

22. Fungi/Fungi Reinforcement

23. The Unknown World

24. Protista- Fungi- Bacteria Review

25. Enrichment-Early Cell Explorers/Section 2 Directed Reading

26. Plant and Animal Cells

2nd Semester

Topic of the Day Calendar

3rd Semester

Topic of the Day Calendar  

43. Overview and Reinforcement of Cells

44. Ribbon of Life

45.Elements, Compounds, Mixtures/ Parts of the Atom

46. Number of Atoms/ Balancing Equations

47. Cell Processes- Sec 1 Content Mastery/ Reinforcement

48. Estuary Explorers Packet

49. Bikini Bottom Genetics-1

50. Bikini Bottom Genetics-2

51.Overview: Interactions of Life/Living Earth- Populations

52. Interactions with Communities/ Interactions of Life

53. Reinforcement: Living Earth/Interactions within communities

54. Among the Wild Chimpanzees/ Thinking About Mono Lake

55. Overview: The Nonliving Environment/ Abiotic Factors

56. Cycles in Nature/ Energy Flow

57. Genetics Vocabulary

58.Overview Heredity/ Genetics

59. Response Sheet: Genetic Variation/Genetic Variation Practice Sheet

7. Section 2 The Senses/ Enrichment Making Sense

8. Eye Dissection/Eye Diagram

9. Section 2 The Senses Reinforcement/ Enrichment I Can't Hear What I'm Seeing

10. Lenses and Light

11. Note taking: The Nervous system Overview

12.Note taking: The Nervous System Part 2/ Chapter 21 Review Part 1 

13. Retina Notes/Retina Review

14. Nervous System/ Control & Coordination

15.Central Nervous system Worksheet / Neurons Worksheet
(Peripheral Nervous System Worksheet / Nervous System Disorders Worksheet )

16.  Divisions of the Brain/ The Brain- Lobes

17.Teenage Brain Packet

18. Chapter Review Part 2/ Eye & Brain Crossword

19. Brain Activity Maps

20. Imaging Technique Questions/Focus Questions: The Storm Within

21. Section 1 Reinforcement The Nervous System/ Key Terms Control & Coordination

22 Brain & Senses Review

50. Secret Garden/ Response Sheet- Seeds of Life

51. Section 2 &3 Content Mastery: Seedless and Seed Plants/Reinforcement Seed Plants

52. Energy for Life- Sec 3 Content Mastery/ Reinforcement

52. Root Development/ Exploring a leaf/ Parts of a Flower

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