Grade 8 Science

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Unit 1:  Atoms and Ions

Activity 1 - Atoms of Elements to Ions

Activity 2 - Ionically Speaking 

Activity 3 - It All Adds Up

 

Unit 2:  Earth’s Forces - Magnetism and Gravity

Activity 1 - Magnetism

Activity 2 - Gravity

Activity 3 - Modeling Newton’s Laws of Motion

Activity 4 - Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation

 

Unit 3:  Earth’s Crust

Activity 1 - The Layers of Our Earth

Activity 2 - Historical Perspective of Plate Tectonics

Activity 3 - Convection Currents

Activity 4 - Plate Tectonics

Activity 5 - Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Activity 6 - Weather or Not??

Activity 7 - Whether It Weathers-Chemically?

Activity 8 - Soil Characteristics

Activity 9 - Mineral Identification

Activity 10 - Rocks and the Rock Cycle

 

Unit 4:  Landforms and Topography

Activity 1 - Shaping the Land: Constructive and Destructive Forces

Activity 2 - Wind Impact

Activity 3 - Water Impact

Activity 4 - Ooh, What A Relief It Is 

Activity 5 - Ocean Floor

Activity 6 - Technology and Today’s Understandings of Earth

 

Unit 5:  Cycles of the Earth

Activity 1 - Water Cycle Details

Activity 2 - Rate of Water Movement in the Water Cycle

Activity 3 - Climates

Activity 4 - Layers of the Atmosphere

Activity 5 - Air Masses

Activity 6 - Hurricanes

Activity 7 - Weather Predicting

Activity 8 - Modeling Moon Phases, Eclipses, Seasons, and Tides

Unit 6:  Fossil History of the Earth

Activity 1 - Make Your Own Fossils

Activity 2 - Can You Cut It??

Activity 3 - Earth’s Timeline

Activity 4 - Half of What?

Activity 5 - What Came First?   

Activity 6 - In This Little Corner

 

Unit 7:  Astronomy and Space Exploration

Activity 1 - Star Colors and Temperatures

Activity 2 - Fingerprints of the Stars

Activity 3 - Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

Activity 4 - Scale Model of the Solar System

Activity 5 - Planetary Comparison 

Activity 6 - Planetary Orbits  

Activity 7 - Phases of the Moon and Eclipses

Activity 8 - Sequencing Phases of the Moon

Activity 9 - Tides: What’s The Moon Got To Do With It?

Activity 10 - Reasons for the Seasons

Activity 11 - Space Technology

 

Unit 8:  Pollution and Its Effects

Activity 1 - Where Does Water Run?

Activity 2 - Campus Pollution Patrol 

Activity 3 - Erosion Prevention

Activity 4 - Soil Sleuths

Activity 5 - Every Drop Counts

Activity 6 - Can We Fix It?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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