Friday, October 31, 2014

6th Grade Science Unit 1 Study Guidelines

6th Grade Science


Review:
  • Weekly Vocabulary words for Unit 1 and Week 1 & 2 of Unit 2.
  • What is Science?
  • Students will learn of the steps scientists follow to solve problems.
  • What is the independent variable in an experiment?
  • Be able to define that matter can be a solid, liquid, gas and takes up space.  
  • Be able to explain that physical change is a change in size, shape, or state without forming a new substance. 
  • Students will be able to describe how a solid can become a liquid and convert into a gas.
  • How to classify minerals based on their properties? 
  • How can density is measured?
  • How particles and waves compare? 
  • Why Earth’s lithosphere is changing?
  • How minerals are classify?
  • The difference between a rock and a mineral. 
  • Infer what the Rock Cycle tell us about the formation of rocks
  • What are the three types of rocks?
  • What are index fossil?
  • Describe radioactive dating.
  • What is a rock’s relative age?
  • What is geologic column?
  • What is superposition? 
  • What do the periods in the geologic time scale represent?
  • Understand the development of the geologic time scale
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Thursday, October 30, 2014

8th Grade Science Unit 1 Study Guidelines

8th Grade Science

Review:
  • Weekly Vocabulary words for Unit 1 and Week 1 & 2 of Unit 2.
  • What science is and the use of scientific method in problem solving
  • How does inquiry affect  us everyday?
  • Be able to describe and measure the speed of a chemical reaction.  
  • Describe the law of conservation.
  • What is a physical and chemical change?
  •  What evidence might tell you that a chemical reaction has occurred?
  • Define precipitate.
  • What is an atom? 
  • Know the structure of an atom
  • Create a time-line of events that led to the modern models.
  • How is today’s model of the atom developed?  
  • Learn the process of radioactive decay. 
  • Describe carbon dating.  
  •  When is the equation for a chemical reaction balanced?
  • be able to explain exothermic and endothermic reactions.
  • Explain how the periodic table is set up and used.
  •   What affect the solubility rate of a solute within a solution.
  • Define energy and describe how to calculate kinetic gravitational potential energy.
  • How distance traveled compare to displacement? 
  • Be able to tell the difference between a solute, solvent, and solution. 
  • Learn the properties of the representative elements. 
  • What devices have anode and a cathode? 
            

7th Grade Science Unit 1 Study Guidelines

7th Grade Science

Review:
  • Weekly Vocabulary words for Unit 1 and Week 1 & 2 of Unit 2.
  •  Describe how science is all around us. 
  • Steps scientists follow to solve problems.
  • What is the control variable in an experiment? 
  • Why are variables important in an experiment?
  • Identify the dietary needs for maintaining healthy bones.  
  • Name the six types of nutrients and their importance.
  • Be able to distinguish between mechanical and chemical digestion.  
  • Label the process of digestion. 
  • Know the parts of the skeletal system
  • Joints, muscles, and bones
  • Compare arteries, veins, and capillaries
  • Know the characteristics and function of blood.
  • How does blood platelets maintain homeostasis.
  • What is the function of the heart?
  • Draw and label heart.
  • What is the lymphatic system?
  • What nutrients are supplied by blood. 
  • What are chain of events necessary for nervous impulses to travel through a specific system. 
  • How is the CNS and PNS different? 
  • Compare and contrast the circulatory and pulmonary system
  • Name the three parts of the brain and the function of each part.