8th Grade

Mythbusters | Moon Landing Hoax | Full Episode

• 2015 Spring (ost_grade-8-sci_sp15_item-release-scoring-guide_fbl_updated-7.31.17.pdf)
• 2016 Spring (ost_grade-8-sci_sp16_item-release-scoring-guide_fbl_updated-june-2017.pdf)
• 2017 Spring (ost_grade-8-science_sp17_item-release-scoring-guide_fbl.pdf)
• Practice Test Part 1 (released practice test.pdf)
• Practice Test Part 2 (released practice test 2.pdf)

• Amoeba Sisters ~ Alleles and Genes
• Amoeba Sisters ~ Pedigree
• Amoeba Sisters~ Monohybrids and Punnett Square Guinea Pigs Video
• Video Bozeman Science ~ Mendelian Genetics
• Video Bozeman Science ~ Genotype v. Phenotype
• Video Bozeman Science ~ Beginners Guide To Punnet Squares
• Pedigree Chart
• Mendel and Punnet Square Chapter Reading
• Pedigree Chapter reading
• 1. Study Jams ~ Heredity Video
• 2. Heredity ~ Brain Pop
• 3. Why are some genes dominant?
• 4. Punnett Square
• 5. Virtual Lab ~ How are traits passed from parents to offspring?
• 6. Virtual Lab ~ Punnett Squares
• 7. Ameoba Sisters ~ Alleles and Genes
  See Ms. Van Balen to get the handout that goes with the video.
• 8. Amoeba Sisters ~PEDIGREE video
  See Ms. Van Balen to get the handout that goes with the video.
• 9. Build a Fish Game
• 10. Phet Lab ~ Natural Selection (PHet Lab natural-selection.jar)
• Science Close Up: Mendel's Discoveries
• Alien Genetics Project (alien_genetics_project.doc)
• Bill Nye ~ Genes
• Heredity ~ Study Jam
• Punnett Square ~ Ask a Biologist
• Gregor Mendel ~ Slide Show
• Mendel's Discoveries
• Dog Breeding Game
• Practicing Punnetts ~ Bunny Style

Ameoba Sisters ~ Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Video

• Phet Lab ~ Forces and Motion
• Net Force Reading
• Net Force Bill Nye Clip
• Force Video
  Watch the video and complete the handout.
• Net Force Slide Show

• Quizlet
  Practice the Quizlet links for your Vocabulary Quiz.
• Magnetic Fields Diagram
• Interactive Sea Floor Spreading
• National Geographic ~ Seafloor Spreading
• Model of Seafloor Spreading
• Harry Hess
• Sea Floor Spreading Animation
  Read the KEY POINTS under the animation.
• Sea Floor Spreading Video Lesson
• Animation Magnetic Fields
• Slide Show (sea-floor spreading power point.pptx)
• Bill Nye Video Clip

Glencoe

• EasyBib ~ Cite Your Article
• NoodleTools ~ Cite Your Article
• 1st Nine Weeks ~ Science News Article Directions/Links (science news article.docx)

Create a Graph

Chapter Reading (force glencoe chapter.pdf)
Pages 36-63

• We Use Math ~ Careers That Use Math
• Tynker- Coding
• Stem Works
• SciGirls
• Navy ~ STEM Careers
• Engineering ~ Go For It!
  Click on Students
• Enginerring ~ Go
• Dream It, Do It ~ Manufacturing Jobs
• Engineer Girl
• ION ~ Stem Careers
• CSI
• Kids Work!
• 3M ~ Profiles on Scientists
• 25 Best Stem Jobs
• Cool Jobs

• Constructive and Destructive Forces - YouTube Video
• Video~ Adventures in Constructive and Destructive Forces
• Constructive & Destructive Forces Power Point Presentation (constructiveanddestructiveforces powerpoint.ppt)

• Video ~ Topographic Map Skills
• Introduction to Topographic Maps Video
• Weathering And Erosion PP (weathering_and_erosion power point.ppt)
• Topographic Maps Power Point (topographic maps.ppt)
• Map Match ~Webrangers
• Reading a Map~Webrangers
• How Are Land forms Represented on Flat Maps?

• Drifting Continents 17.1
• Continental Drift: Alfred Wegener Song by The Amoeba People
• Video ~Continental Drift
  What are the 4 pieces of evidence to support Wegener's Theory of a super continent?
• Wegener’s theory ~ Reading
• Pangaea Animation
• Move The Continents!
• Animation

• Energy Chapter
• What is Chemical PE? Video
• What is Electrical PE? Video
• Wile E Coyote & Road Runner Video
• Elastic PE ~ baseball
• Elastic PE ~ bouncing tennis ball video
• Mr. Edmonds ~ KE & PE
• Elastic Potential Energy ~ Trampoline
• Bouncing Ball
• Paint Can ~ Gravitational Potential Energy
• Glencoe Virtual Lab
• Phet Lab ~ Energy Skate Park

• Web Quest: Static Electricity
• Bill Nye ~ Static Electricity
• Study Jam ~ Electricity
• John Travoltage
• What is Static Electricity?
• How Shocking!
• Explore Static Charge
• Static Electricity ~ The Physics Classroom
• Static Electricity -Phet Lab

• How Does An Electric Motor Work?
• How Do Speakers Work?
• Science Buddies ~ Electromagnets
• Brain Pop Electromagnets
• Brain Pop Electromagnetic Induction
• PBS | Einstein's Big Idea | Michael Faraday - Part 2
• PBS | Einstein's Big Idea | Michael Faraday - Part 1
• Science Bob ~ How to Make an Electromagnet
• How Many Batteries Will It Take?
• How Many Paperclips Can You Pick Up?
• Electricity and Magnetism Chapter Reading
  Read Section 2 Electricity and Magnetism
• Magnets and Electricity Power Point (electromagnet slide show-0.ppt)
• Magnets and Electricity Power Point (electromagnet slide show.ppt)
• Ch 11 Electromagnet Screen Cast

Sports Video

• Using Graphs to Explain Motion
• Position v Time Graph Video Part 2
• Position vs. Time Graph Video Part 1
• Video ~ Graphs Tell Stories
• You Tell The Story With A Graph
• Take Your Dog For a Walk
• Mother Ship ~ Partner Game
• Mother Ship
• Graph Shots
• Distance v Time Graph Practice
• Distance v Time Graph Video

• Speed Boats ~ Which is the Fastest? (speeddistancetime2.zip)
• Velocity Baseball Game
  You will need a calculator.

• Take a Walk Data Sheet (TakeAWalkDataSheet-0.odt)
• Take A Walk ~ Virtual Lab
• Scooter Simulation
• BBC Friction
• Phet Lab ~ Friction Questions (Friction Simulation.doc)
• PHET Lab ~ Friction
• Bill Nye Friction

• Virtual Lab-Newton's Second Law
• Newton's Laws Video
• Brain Pop ~ Force
• Net Force Video
• Amusement Park Physics
• Newton's laws Webquest
• Newton
• Forces Chapter Reading
• Newton's Laws ~ Reading
• Science Channel ~ Newton's Laws of Motion Interactive
• Neok12 Laws of Motion Videos
  watch the first 6 video clips
• Eureka Force Video
• PHET Lab ~ Forces and Motion
• CK12 Combining Forces
• The Basics: Forces and Motion

• Density Power Point (density power point presentation.pptx)
• Poly Density Bottle Curiosity is Explained
• What is Density? Video
• Density Chapter Reading (density chapter reading.pdf)
• How does temperature affect the density of water? - Live Experiments (Ep 39) - Head Squeeze
• Density of Soda v Diet Soda ~Steve Spangler
• 7 Layer Density - Cool Science Experiment~Steve Spangler
• VIRTUAL DENSITY TESTING LAB
• Mr. Edmonds Density Song
• 5 Facts About Density video
• Phet Lab

• Study Jams ~ Atoms
• Build An Atom
• The Atom ~ PBS interactive
• Video ~ Atoms & Density
• Matter is made of atoms.
• Brain Pop ~ Atoms
• Video ~ Just How Small Is an Atom?
• Khan Academy Video ~Introduction to the atom
• Atoms Are Building Blocks
• What Is An Atom?
• Gases, Solids, and Liquids
• How Big Is An Atom?
• Affect of Heat

• Flipping Physics Video
• Free Body Diagram Video
• Types of Forces Slide Show
• Free Body Diagram Slide Show (Free-body Diagrams slide show.ppt)
• Drawing Free-Body Diagrams
• Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
• Free body Examples

• Mass v Weight Investigation
• Eureka ~ Mass v Weight Video
• Mass and Weight in Space video
• Mass Attack Weight Game
• Mass V Weight Slide Show
• Mass v Weight Song
• Mass v Weight
• M.I High detective game
• Mass v Weight video

• 95 Worlds and Counting
• Study Jam ~ Gravity
• Bill Nye ~ Gravity
• The Elegant Universe-Gravity
  Watch 11:00-19:30
• The Elegant Universe-Gravity and Normal Force
  Watch 19:30-27:57
• 95 Worlds and Counting Video
• Lunar Lander
  Read the instructions before you begin.
• Phet ~ Gravity Force Lab
• What is Gravity?
• Gravity Game
• The Galileo Games
• Fear of Physics ~ How Things Fall
• How Much Do I Weigh?
• Gravity Launch ~ Game
• How much would you weigh on...?

• Edheads

Where can you find a whale in the desert?

• Video ~ How to make a scatter plot
• Create a Graph
• Scatter Plot

• Mr. Edmonds ~ volume of regular objects
• Mr. Edmonds ~ Reading the Meniscus
• Linear ~ Fun Brain
• How Big Is A Foot By Rolf Myller
• Water Displacement Power Point (how to find the volume ofasolidusingtheliquiddisplacementmethod.pptx)
• Reading The Meniscus
• Volume of a rectangular prism practice II
• Volume of rectangular prism practice
• Volume Song ~ rectangular prisms
• Water Displacement Method ~ volume practice
• Water Displacement Method ~ volume practice II

• Mitosis and Meiosis Web Quest
• Meiosis Animation
• Mitosis Animation
• Mitosis & Meiosis Animations
• Mitosis & Meiosis Comparison

• Faultline Engineering
• Earthquake-proof Buildings
• How to Make Buildings & Structures Earthquake Proof
• Skyscrappers
  Investigate the Loads Lab
• Earthquake Resistant Buildings
  Click on Resistant Buildings Tab on the left hand side. Investigate Braced Frames
• Strengthening Braces
• Why the Skyscrapers Just Swayed
• Skyscrapers ~ earthquake proof
• At the Faultline: Earthquake History
• Life on a Fault Line
• Engineering For Earthquakes
• Model Making

• Magnet Reading ~ Chapter 8
• INTRODUCTION TO THE MYSTERY OF MAGNETISM
• INTRODUCTION TO THE MYSTERY OF MAGNETISM (INTRODUCTION TO THE MYSTERY OF MAGNETISM.docx)
• Bill Nye ~ Magnetism
• StudyJam ~ Magnetism
• Brian Pop
• Magnetic Domains YouTUbe
• Mag-Lab
• Create A Magnetic Game (Create a Magnetic Game.docx)
• Magnetic Domains
• Magnetic Fields
• The Two Ends of a Magnet
• Magnetic Domain
• Magnets and Compass Practice
• Magnetism and a Compass
• Magnetism Cool Math Game

• Cell diagram/Video
• Virtual Cell Lab
• Cell Diagram
• Cell video

• Journey To The Center of The Earth ~ BBC
• Chapter Reading~ Earth's Struture
• Webquest- Tab #7
• Greatest Discoveries with Bill Nye Earth Science~ Video
• Bill Nye~The Earth's Crust
• Video ~Layers of the Earth—How were they found? What are they?
• Inge Lehmann: Discoverer of the Earth's Inner Core
• Journeys to the Center of the Earth ~ Discover Magazine Article
• Brain Pop ~ Earth's Structure
• Layers of the Earth Interactive
• Rags to Riches Game
  Try to win a million dollars!
• Earth’s Layered Structure ~ Chapter Reading
• Chapter Reading ~ Earth's Interior and Formation
• Video ~How Scientists Study Earth's Interior Structure
• Interactives Dynamic Earth
• Layers of the Earth Webquest
• Convection Currents

• Bill~Nye Earthquakes
• Video ~ Seismic Waves
• Study Jam ~ earthquakes
• Video ~ Earth's Interior - Seismic Evidence Explanation
• 3-D Scientists Use Seismic Data to Get an Inside Look at Earth
• Brain Pop ~ Earthquakes
• Evidence for Earth's Internal Structure
• Seismic Wave Maker
• Seismic Wave Simulation ~ BBC
• Seismic Wave Simulation

• Movie ~ Journey to The Center of The Earth Packet
• Plate Boundary Examples
• Real Life Plate Boundaries ~ Google Maps
• 17.3 The Theory of Plate Tectonics
  Scroll forward to 17.3 (page 455)
• Video~ Plate Tectonics
• Interactive Plate boundary Map
• Animations
• Intro to Plate Tectonic Theory
  Short Reading with animations
• Basic Plate Boundary Animations
• Tectonics of the planet ~ Video
• Brain Pop ~ Plate Tectonics
• Plate Boundaries Animations
• Plate Tectonics Animations
• Subduction Animation
• Divergent Boundary Animations
• Sea Floor Spreading Animation
• Sea Floor Spreading
• Plates and Boundaries ~ Interactive
• Earthquakes
• Plate Tectonics ~ How Do We Know?

• Geologic Dating~ You Tube
• StudyJam ~ Fossils
• Study Jam ~ Weathering and Erosion
  Watch the video, then Test Yourself!
• 1. Fossil Record
• 2. Stories From the Fossil Record
• 3. Adventures at Dry Creek
• 4. The Evolution of Flight
• 5. The Arthropod Story
• 6. Bill Nye ~ Fossils
  *You need to get the Bill Nye handout on the top of Ms. Van Balen's desk. * Complete the handout while watching the video.
• Relative Dating of Rock Layers-7 Clues Video ~Michael Sammartano
• The Rock and Fossil Record Chapter 16 Reading
• Stories From The Fossil Record Webquest
• Quizlet The Rock and Fossil Record
• Relative Rock Layers-Which Layer was first?
• The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past
• Virtual Dinosaur Dig
• Take a Trip With Darwin! Web Quest
• PHet Lab ~ Radioactive Dating (PHet Lab radioactive-dating-gameen 1.jar)
• Geologic Dating/ Fossil Record Chapter Reading (Fossil Record Chapter Reading.pdf)
• Geologic Dating PowerPoint (Absolute Dating Powerpoint.ppt)
• Geologic Dating ~ Discovery kids
• Fossil Record Webquest

• Asexual v Sexual Reproduction Slide Show
• Chemical Potential Energy
• Friction and Gravity
• Painted Lady Butterfly
• Net Force Math Packet 1 Key
  Use the key to check your answers. See Ms. Van Balen if you need assistance.