Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Happy Holidays!  No homework!

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  ​Study for the test. Study Guided ON PAGES 352-354

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:
Brandeis/Rice-  Christmas break assignment - the feedback and homeostasis packet due Thursday January 2, 2020.
JohnHopkins/CalTech-  Complete the Weather Project due Friday January 3, 2020. (attached)
Weather, Water Cycle, Air Masses, & Fronts Exam on Friday January 3, 2020.

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  ​Study Guide: Complete vocabulary/key terms for chapter (attached):

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:
Brandeis/Rice-  Complete the homeostasis and immunity packet homework 2.4 & 2.5. Also complete the word search.  It will be collected tomorrow. (attached)
Christmas break assignment - the feedback and homeostasis packet due Thursday January 2, 2019.
JohnHopkins/Rice-  Complete the Weather Project due Friday January 3, 2019. (attached)

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Product Label:
Write a "packaging label" for a seed. Include a name and description for each structure of the seed. Be sure to describe the function of each structure in producing a new plant. Write this HW in your notebooks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SCORING RUBRIC
4. Includes the name, function, and description for each part of a SEED; uses vivid descriptions that resemble a real labeL and engage the reader.
3. Includes all criteria, but description are uninteresting
2. Includes brief but accurate descriptions
1. Includes incomplete or inaccurate descriptions.
DUE WEDNESDAY USE THE INTERNET OR TEXT FOR REFERENCE

Ms. Grant:
6th Grade:  Newton's Third Law Action and Reaction

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  You are narrating a video called Living on Land, which is written from the perspective of a plant.
Write a one page script for your narration. Be sure to discuss the challenges that life on land poses for plants and how they meet their needs.
Use the text or the internet for information on plants.
Write this HW in your notebooks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scoring Rubrics:
4-script includes accurate details about challenges and how plants meet them;writing is engaging.
3-includes all criteria; writing is unimaginative
2-includes few details
1-includes inaccurate or irrelevant information.
Due Tuesday.

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:
Brandeis/Rice-  Workbook pages 504 to 510. Use textbook pages 928 to 930 for assistance.  Due tomorrow.
12-16-19 Assignment due Friday January 3.
CalTech/JohnsHopkins- Air Pressure & Wind worksheet due tomorrow.
Weather Project due Friday January 3.

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Complete fungi handout

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Writing: Imagine you are a paramecium. Write a short story about a encounters with other microscopic life forms such as amoebas, euglenoids, slime molds and protists. The story must include how these organisms behave and how to identify them. Review chapter 9 to help you with your stories: Save the story in your notebooks! DUE FRIDAY

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:
Brandeis/Rice-  Read Glands of the Endocrine System, pages 982-987.  Insert vocabulary with definitions.  Copy and answer Q1&2 on page 987.
CalTech/JohnsHopkins-  Read Winds textbook pages 552-558.  Insert vocabulary with definitions.  Copy and answer Q1-3 on page 558.  Due Monday.

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Finish HandOut-Chap 9 Viruses Bacteria, Protists and Fungi

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:
Brandeis/RICE- Read The Skeletal System pages 922 – 927. Insert vocabulary with definitions. Copy and answer section assessment questions 1 – 3 on page 927 in textbook. Study for assessment tomorrow.
John Hopkins/Caltech-  Read Water in the Atmosphere pages 560 – 566 in textbook. Insert vocabulary with definitions. Answer questions 1 – 3 on page 566 in textbook. 

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:  Review sheets and vocabulary.

Ms. Shakes:
7th Grade:
-Review Evolution, Fossils and Vocabulary Fossils.
Sedimentary layers . Fossils, Diversity, Extinction, Fossil record, chronological order, common ancestry, fossil record, nitrogen dating, radioactive dating, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rock, timeline
The quiz will consist of:
Matching the above vocabulary
Fill in the blanks
Multiple choice questions of diagram interpretations
Short written responses.
Study and study-go over the vocabulary.
-Workbook pages 91-93, 94-97, 98-101

Ms. Scott:
8th Grade:  
Brandeis/RICE-  Complete worksheet 2.2 & 2.3 from homeostasis and immunity packet due Wednesday. Be ready to turn in human body packet Wednesday. Study for assessment on the respiratory and circulatory system on Thursday 12.12.19.
JohnsHopkins/Caltech-  Read Heat Transfer textbook pages 548 – 551.  Insert vocabulary with definitions into notebook. Copy and answer section assessment questions 1 & 2 on page. Due Wednesday 12.11.19.