8th Grade Science (page 25)

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Urban Ecology

Environmental Science

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A Household of the Future

Students design a home and a car of the future, which operate entirely on renewable energy sources. Assesses their…

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Environmental Science

Natural Resources Conservation

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Modeling the Effects of Fault Movements

Students create a model to show the effects of strike-slip, normal, and reverse faults on a surface feature, such as a…

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Geology

Plates and Tectonics

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Identifying a Mystery Mineral

Students are asked to identify a mystery mineral sample. Assesses their knowledge of mineral properties and the tests…

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Earth Science

Minerals

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Making a Model of the Rock Cycle

Students create a model of the rock cycle using the materials given. Assesses their knowledge of the characteristics of…

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1930s

Geology

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A Model Landscape

Students create a model that shows a variety of landform features created by river erosion and deposition. Assesses…

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Earth Science

Geology

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River Erosion

Students create a model demonstrating how flooding affects the amount of material eroded by a river. Assesses their…

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Earth Science

Floods

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Making Salinity Currents

Students create a model for currents caused by differences in salinity, using the materials provided. Assesses their…

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Earth Science

Oceans (Oceanography)

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Modeling Plate Movement

Students develop a working model of plate divergence at the mid-ocean ridge and plate convergence at a trench. Assesses…

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Geology

Plates and Tectonics

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Slowing Evaporation

Students design an experiment to test how to slow the evaporation of water in an open swimming pool in a dry climate.…

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Earth Science

Atmosphere and Air

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Comparing the Weather

Students compare the weather in their city or part of the country with the weather in three other locations, for a…

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Earth Science

Weather

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The Tides

Students construct a model to illustrate how the position of Earth, the sun, and the moon affect the tides. Assesses…

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Space and Astronomy

Moon

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Sizes of Stars

Students conceptualize the enormous differences in size among four categories of stars. Assesses their understanding of…

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Space and Astronomy

Stars

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A Matter of Fact

Students create a poster that uses words and pictures to present basic information about matter. Assesses their…

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Chemistry

Energy and Matter

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Balloon Graph

Students create a graph of volume versus temperature for a gas. Assesses their understanding of gas behavior and line…

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Chemistry

Physics

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Chemical Family Album

Students create a "family album" for three families of the periodic table. Assesses their understanding of the periodic…

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Chemical Properties

Periodic Law and Table

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More Molecular Models

Students create models of six molecules, each containing six carbon atoms. Tests students' understanding of…

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Chemistry

Molecules

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Chemical Reactions

Students design an experiment to determine whether the chemical reaction that takes place as the iron in steel wool…

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Chemistry

Chemical Change

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Bonds and Compounds

Students create a poster that classifies compounds based on the types of bonds they contain. Tests students'…

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Chemistry

Chemical Formulas

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Materials Pursuit

Students create a trivia game about polymers, alloys, ceramics, glass, and radioactive elements. Assesses students'…

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Chemistry

Chemical Properties

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Tracking a Toy

Students work in pairs to make a motion graph of the movement of a wind-up toy. Assesses their understanding of motion…

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Physics

Motion and Momentum

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Newton's Banana

Students determine the mass of a banana using only a string and a spring scale. Assesses their understanding of Newton's…

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Physics

Newton's Laws

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Machine Mania

Students create four simple machines to make the work of moving an object easier. Assesses their understanding of simple…

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Physics

Machines

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Energy and Power (Water Wheel)

Students build a machine that converts the kinetic energy of falling water to the gravitational potential energy of a…

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Physics

Motion and Energy (Mechanics)

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