Grade 7 Week 21: Newton's First Law

Newton's First Law

What is Newton's First Law?
What does it mean?

Week 21 has you inventing a lab that showcases Newton's First Law of Motion.

Grade 8 Week 20: Properties of Bonds

Electrons form bonds.


Compounds can be modeled.


Atoms can form molecules.

What are the different types of bonds and what are their unique properties?
How does a compound get its properties from its elements and their bonds?

Week 20 has you comparing bonds, or modeling molecules, or researching buckminsterfullerene.

Grade 7 Week 20: Speed and Acceleration

How do we describe speed?
How do we describe acceleration?
Using the graphs below, explain what is going on.


Graph A



Graph B



Week 20 Contracts again have you inventing a lab or activity that describes speed or acceleration.

Grade 8 Week 19: Compounds

Now that we know everything there is to know about elements and the Periodic Table...let's start combining elements for form compounds!  We are well on our way to ripping up these bonds, rearranging them, and blowing stuff up.

What are compounds?
How do compounds compare to the elements that make them up?

Contract 19 has you comparing your element from the previous weeks to the common compounds your element is a part of.

Grade 7 Week 19: Position and Motion

Now we begin our physical science unit on Physics.  We begin by looking at position of objects and the change in position we call motion.

How do we describe position?
How do we descirbe motion?



Week 19 Contract has you inventing a lab activity on position or motion.

Grade 8 Week 18: The Periodic Table of Elements

This week we look at how elements are arranged by their properties.  We will end by blowing stuff up, but we must first begin by finding the properties that makes that "stuff" blow up.

How are elements arranged on the periodic table?
What classifies elements into those groups?



Contract 18 has students using that same atom to fill in the periodic table on the ceiling or researching famous chemists.

Grade 8 Week 17: The Atom

This week we begin the physical science of chemistry.  We will end by blowing stuff up, but we must first begin by finding out what makes that "stuff" up.

How does an atom's structure determine the element's properties?



Contract 17 has students picking an element and contructing its atom or researching quarks.