Welcome to Ms. Yost's Science Class
Contact Information:
Team: Windjammers
Voicemail: (704) 633-4775 ext. 247
Homework Hotline: (704) 633-9496 ext. 8100
Planning: 9:15am - 10:15am
Important Dates to Remember:
January
21 No School- Martin Luther King Holiday
22 Teacher workday
31 Report Cards go home
February:
1 RCCC field trip for eighth graders
15 Money and permission forms due for Buck Steam Station $5
18 Teacher workday
March:
21-28 Spring Break
31 Waverunners to Buck Steam Station
April:
1 Water Quality Field Trip to Buck Steam Station
2 Water Quality Field Trip to Buck Steam Station
4 Teacher workday
11 Water Quality Field Trip to Buck Steam Station
15-18 8th graders to Charleston
Third Quarter topics- Chemistry:
1. Understand both naturally occuring and synthetic substances are chemicals.
2. Evaluate evidence that elements combine in a multitude of ways to produce compounds that account for all living and nonliving substances.
3. Explain how the periodic table is a model for: classifying elements and identifying the properties of elements.
4. Describe the suitability of materials for use in technological design: electrical conductivity, density, magnetism, solubility, malleability.
5. Identify substances based on characteristic physical properties: density, boiling and melting points, solubility, chemical reactivity, and specific heat.
6. Describe and measure quantities related to chemical/physical changes within a system: temperature, volume, mass, precipitate, and gas production.
7. Identify evidence supporting the law of conservation of matter: during and ordinary chemical reaction matter cannot be created nor destroyed and in a chemical reaction, the total mass of the reactants equals the total mass of the products mass.
8. Identify evidence that some chemicals may contribute to human health conditions including: cancer, autoimmune disease, birth defects, heart disease, diabetes, learning and behavioral disorders, kidney disease, and asthma.
9. Describe the factors that determine the effects a chemical has on a living organism including: exposure, potency, dose and the resultant concentration of chemicals in the organism, individual susceptibility, and possible means of eliminating or reducing effects.
10. Describe risks and benefits of chemicals including: medicines, food preservatives, crop yield, and sanitation.
Outline for Chemistry Unit:
Jan. 23-Jan. 31: Water distribution, pollution, and water quality standards
Jan. 31: Unit test on the Hydrosphere
Week 1-2 (Feb. 4-Feb. 15): Introduction to chemistry and the properties of matter (topic 4, 5, and 6)
Week 3-5 (Feb. 18-March 7): Periodic Table (topic 1 and 3)
Week 6 (March 10-March 14): Compounds (topic 2)
Week 7 (March 17-March 20): Water testing kits (testing nitrates, dissolved oxygen, phosphorus, phosphates, bio-indicators, ammonia, and turbidity to prepare for Buck Steam Station field trip)
Week 8 (March 31-April 2): Buck Steam Station field trip (Windjammers go April 1 or April 2) Introduction to chemical reactions (topic 2, 5, 6, and 7)
Week 9 (April 7-April 11): Chemical reactions (topic 2, 5, 6, and 7)
Week 10 (April 15-April 18): Eighth graders to Charleston
Week 11-12 (April 21-May 2): Chemistry and Humans (topic 8, 9, and 10)
May 2: Test on Chemistry Unit
Eighth Grade Science Topics for EOG:
1st Quarter-Evolution in Organisms and Landforms: geologic time scale, law of superposition, index fossils, unconformities, theories of evolution, spectral analysis, remote sensing, ground truthing, maps to show change over time, and LANDSAT
2nd Quarter-Hydrosphere: properties of water, water distribution, river basins, estuaries marine ecosystems, water cycle, aquatic and terrestrial food webs, water quality, pH, density, and bio-indicators
3rd Quarter-Chemistry: periodic table of elements(families/groups/elements/ characteristics), compounds, mixtures, melting point, boiling point, specific heat, matter, atoms, law of conservation of mass, balancing chemical equations, chemical reactions, atomic structure, and chemical contributions to human health conditions
4th Quarter-Cells: cell theory, structures, functions, and processes of animal cells, protists, and how cells contribute to functions in the human body -Microbiology: microbes, viruses, bacteria, parasites, contagions, mutagens, and analyze patterns to determine trends or patterns of how an infectious disease may spread (vectors and carriers)
