8th Graders -
Our District Benchmark Quarterly Assessment WILL be taken on FRIDAY, NOV. 16. Tonight's assignment: read through your Science Notebooks and refresh your memory on what we've learned this year about Energy, and Forces & Motion. Answer the following questions: 


1.What are the steps of scientific methods?
2. What is a hypothesis?
3. How do you design an experiment?
4. What are the different kinds of variables? How are they different?
5. What is energy?
6. Where does energy come from?
7. What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
8. How is potential energy different from kinetic energy?
9. What is a force?
10. How do you calculate speed of a moving object?
11. What is the difference between velocity and acceleration?
12. What is inertia? (copy this answer:) Inertia is the resistance that an object has to a change in its motion. A body at rest will stay at rest, and a body in motion will stay in motion, unless acted on by another unbalanced force.
An unbalanced force is where forces acting in different directions are not equal in strength. Ex: a tug of war with three strong men on one side and 2 kids on the other side. The the forces are unbalanced, the rope will be pulled more strongly in the direction of the three strong men, and the rope will move in their direction.

6th Graders-Our District Benchmark Quarterly Assessment WILL be taken on FRIDAY, NOV. 16. Tonight's assignment: using my link to the right, read through SEPUP e-book activity 69, Forecasting Weather on p. E-87 and answer questions on p. E-91.  Review your study guides and science notebooks for next week's unit test on weather and Review your science notebooks for Friday's DBQ Assessment. Work on your wind packets (How do Winds Form? and Gentle Breezes) for homework.