Grade 8 Week 14: Waves v. Tides

What causes waves?

Why do waves break as seen in the picture above?
What near shore currents are caused by waves?
How can we use the energy transfered in waves to create energy?

What causes tides to fluctuate between low and high?
What are the effects of tides?
How can we use the energy in tides to create electricity?

Contract Week 14 has you designing your own contract that teaches the class more about waves and/or tides.  Good luck and be creative.

Grade 7 Week 13: Respiratory System

How does gas exchange occur in the lungs?
How are those gases involved in cellular respiration?
How did lungs evolve from gilled animals?

Contract Week 13 has you researching the structures, functions, and formation of the respiratory system or describing one unique disorder of the system.

Grade 8 Week 13: Ocean Systems - Currents

What causes water to move in currents?
What are the effects of currents on climate?

Contract Week 13 has you diagraming the ocean, researching how the oceans effect climate, and El Nino.

Grade 7 Week 12: Muscular System

We continue with form and function of the Human Body systems with the muscular system.

What is the function of the muscular system?
how does your muscular system interact with your skeletal system to move and support your body?

Contract Week 12 has you finding form, function, and formation or diseases of the muscular system.

Grade 8 Week 12: Freshwater

This week the goal is to find out where freshwater can be found and how we get it.  We will also look at the effects we have once we get it with our Groundwater Model.

How does freshwater move around us?
Where does Plymouth get its water?

Thursday we will be doing a little role-playing with the Groundwater Model.  Thoughts after using it?  How does our use of groundwater affect that part of the water cycle?

Contract Week 12 has you researching the past and future of Sheboygan Lake/Marsh due to eutrophication, creating a visual on the Great Lakes and the effects of our use, pollutants, and invasive species, and finally to find out finally...where does Plymouth get its water?

Grade 7 Week 11: The Skeletal System

We start our look at form and function of the Human Body systems with the skeletal system.

What does your skeletal system do for you and how does it do it?

Contract Week 11 has you finding form, function, and formation or diseases of the skeletal system.

Grade 8 Week 11: The Water Cycle

We learned in sixth grade about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.  In eighth grade, let's get serious.  There are many ways that water moves in the world around us that we cannot see, or don't think about.

How does water mover throughout the atmosphere, the geosphere, the hydrosphere, and the biosphere?

Contract Week 11 has you adding to what you learned back in sixth grade about the water cycle and looking forward to chemistry by researching the weird molecule we call water.