Welcome to 8th grade science

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Welcome to 8th grade science!

• Your card tells you what group of tables to sit
  at today. Take a seat at your table and keep the
  card out on your desk for now.
• Please begin filling out the green paper titled
  First Day Survey inside your manila envelope.
  If you finish early, you may begin reading the
  course outline (also green)

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Welcome!

• NAME CARDS (5 minutes)
• Instructions
• 1) using at least 4 colors, fold the card hot dog
  style and create a nametag for yourself
• Use at least 3 drawings or symbols that represent
  your interests or who you are
• We will use these everyday for the next week, so
  make sure it is legible and appropriate

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Meet your group members

• 5 minutes (1 minute each)
• Beginning with the person whose birthday is
  closest to today and rotating clockwise, take
  turns introducing yourself to the group
• Share at least two of the symbols and tell why
  they represent you

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Meet the class

• You will introduce the person seated on your
  right
• Tell the class their name and one thing you have
  learned about them
• If you are shy, someone else in your group may
  speak for you today

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Meet your teacher

• Ms. Lyra Kalish
• B.A. The University of Texas at Austin, 2003
• 3rd year at Leander Middle School
• From Spring, TX
• Hobbies competitive running, cooking,
  wakeboarding, reading, UT football, playing with
  my Jack Russell Terrier, Royal

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Questions or Comments???

• On the back of your name tag is a space to write
  questions or comments you have about the class. I
  will have a response for you on Wednesday when
  you return.

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Class Expectations

• CHAMPS
• General Behavior
• Pet Peeves
• Class Officers
• Pencil keeper, attendance, lab assistant, new
  student assistant, desk checker..see Ms. Kalish
  if you would like to run for officemore info to
  come
• Procedure information next class period (where to
  find things, what to do when absent)

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What you will be doing in science

• Interactive notebook (MUST HAVE BY WEDNESDAY)
• Homework Special Assignments (2 per six weeks)
• Working in groups to share ideas and evaluate
• Labs, labs, and more labs
• THINKING!

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Lets do some science

• Each group tub contains
• Balance
• 2 graduated cylinders
• Formula chart
• Scratch paper
• Clothespin
• Block of wood
• Small iron weight
• Calculator

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Physical properties

• As a group, quickly list as many physical
  properties of each object as possible that you
  can observe with your eyes
• Review physical properties can be observed or
  measured. The substance remains the same.
• Examples color, shape, size, mass, volume,
  density.

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Which object is the most dense?

• Predict as a group. Its ok if you dont know
  what density is just yet
• How will you find the density of these objects???
• How will you prove it?
• Get Started! Talk within your group. Use the
  formula chart. Raise your hand if you need help,
  but try it on your own first!

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What to turn in

• On a large index card, write your prediction or
  hypothesis on one side
• On the same side, write how you will prove or
  disprove it (procedure)
• On the back, you will list your measurements and
  conclusions
• Front hypothesis measurements
• procedure Back conclusions
• You have 25 minutes, see how you do!
• All calculations may be done on scratch paper

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Where stuff is..

• Pencil sharpeners, Kleenex, hand sanitizer,
  staplers
• Erasers, Band-Aids, lead
• Work turn in
• Example INB
• Daily objective, agenda and homework assignments
• Make up work
• Calendar
• Trash and recycling

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About pencils

• 1 rule Dont disturb the class
• Electric sharpener allowed during group work and
  first 30 seconds of class
• Handheld sharpener at front of room
• If you suffer from CPSS (chronic pencil
  sharpening syndrome), you may be subject to
  pencil confiscation or assigned a mechanical
  pencil for the year
• If you forget your pencil

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What to do if.

• You are absent
• You cut yourself
• You are tardy
• You have a question or something to say
• You need to get a drink or use the bathroom
• You need extra help in class

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3 You forget your INB

• Impossible, you know to ALWAYS bring your INB to
  class and wouldnt imagine entering Ms. Kalishs
  room without it
• Walk into class without it
• Borrow someone elses and pretend its yours
• Impossible, you know to ALWAYS bring your INB to
  class and wouldnt imagine entering Ms. Kalishs
  room without it

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Lets review

• You miss class because of a doctors appointment
  and come back later that day. What do you do?
• Wait until you get to class again two days later
  to pick up your makeup work.
• Go get your makeup work from the class folder at
  the end of the day, initial next to your name and
  tell/email Ms. Kalish if you have questions when
  you are working on it at home
• Nothing
• Ask your best friend what you did that day in
  class and copy theirs

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• 2) You are tardy because there was a long line at
  the water fountain. What do you do?
• A. Rush into the class, create a commotion and
  apologize for being late
• B. Skip class, Ms. Kalish will scream at you if
  you come in tardy
• C. See if Ms. Milliman will be nice and write you
  a pass
• D. Enter the room quietly, sign the tardy log and
  get to your seat. Sharpen your pencil with the
  handheld sharpener so that people arent
  distracted