8th Grade Science
May 4th-8th

South Dakota Science Standard(s) Covered:
8.E.1.3.  Students are able to explain the factors that create weather and the instruments and technologies that assess it.

Monday
bullet Practice basic concepts of measurement and distance.
bullet Strengthen knowledge of planets in the solar system Increasing understanding of size of the sun and other planets.
bullet Explore the scale of the solar system.

Assignment:  Scale model of planets and sun - distance.

Tuesday
bulletDescribe the structure of Earth's atmosphere.
bulletInvestigate temperature, density, and pressure changes in layers of Earth's atmosphere.
bulletIdentify meteorological and astronomical phenomena that occur in layers of Earth's atmosphere.

Assignment:   What is the structure of Earth's atmosphere? 

Wednesday
bulletLearn about the history of space travel.

Assignment:  When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

Thursday
bullet Understand Weather.

Assignment: Weather video.

Friday
bullet Understand Weather.

Assignment: Weather video.

2014-2015 Lesson Plans

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