8th Grade Life Science

1. Science Journal Entry: Describe the eye dissection: what parts you remember, the steps taken, and if doing the direction helped you learn the parts better- make sure to include how of these learning strategies were used:

2.Reading: Human Brain and Senses: The Mammalian Eye p. 29-30 to review the structure & function of the eye parts

3. Prepare for tomorrow's upcoming quiz by reviewing the structures and functions of the eye with a game

NJCCCS 5.1  & 5.5

Quiz Tuesday: Mammalian eye (structure & function) :sclera, cornea, aqueous humor, pupil, lens, vitreous humor, retina, tapetum, iris, optic nerve, blind spot

Science Current Event due Friday

Eye Structure & Function Quiz TSWBAT

1. Demonstrate knowledge on a Quiz : Mammalian eye (structure & function): sclera, cornea, aqueous humor, pupil, lens, vitreous humor, retina, tapetum, iris, optic nerve, blind spot by taking a hands on evaluation

2. Learn about learning disabilities like dyslexia that are associated with the senses: Enrichment I Can't Hear What I'm Seeing

NJCCCS 5.1  & 5.5

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

1. Investigate a variety of lenses including drops of water, glass marbles, and hand lenses to discover the properties of lenses.

2. Reading: Human Brain and Senses: Lenses and Light p. 31-33 & Corrective Lenses p. 34-35

3. Exploring Lenses/Light through a lens

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

1. Use lenses to project images using radiant, reflected, and transmitted light, and discover that the projected image is inverted and reversed. Diagram the pathway of light though a lens.

2. Review 10. Lenses and Light to understand the different types of light and the pathway light travels

3. Define vision vocabulary words in notes section: refraction, angle of incidence, angle of refraction, lens, focus, principal focus (focal length), image, projected image, image focus distance,  myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism

NJCCCS 5.1  & 5.5

10. Lenses and Light

Science Current Event due Friday

1. Investigate and measure peripheral vision and field of view for 3 qualities of vision: motion, color identification, and reading.

2. Explore a variety of magnifiers to discover the properties of lenses

3. Use color boxes to investigate color vision and understand that photoreceptors (rods and cones) are sensitive to different aspects of light

NJCCCS 5.1  & 5.5

4. Using the Angle Finder for Field of Vision/Field of Vision Angles

5. Color Box Analysis/ Blind Spot Challenges