We Tried $150 Iceberg Water With A Water Expert

Create your own Colony Expectations 10/2/2017

8th Grade Student Survey

8th grade Student Survey

Energy Kids Webquest Link

Science. Link

https://www.eia.gov/kids/index.cfm

Skate Lab

Skate Lab 

Similarities and differences: understanding Homology and Analogy Webquest

Science:

Web quest Link

Panda's

Computer Lab 3/14/2017

Science: http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/science/virtual_labs/E18/E18.html

Way Neat! Mercedes G63 AMG 6x6 Review - Top Gear - Series 21 - BBC

Superimposed Pictures

Social Studies:

Here is a link to that super cool powerpoint I showed you today in Class!

Linky

Tips on Making your Powerpoint more engaging

6 Tips from Discovery Ed 


8 Best PowerPoint Presentations: How To Create Engaging Presentations

Fake News Readings

Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study Finds

Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts

As Fake News Spreads Lies, More Readers Shrug at the Truth

Fake News Sites List

How to spot fake news 

Don’t get spun by Internet rumors.

False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources

On the Media Fake News 

Assignment:
Create a Power Point to explain to other students how to detect Fake News in Social media.

Teaching Fake News:

•Identify examples of Fake News- “Aka the Flower”

•How do you figure out if it is Fake news? NPR article – use examples.

•Teach students how to find “good sources”
•Go to Grovesclass.blogspot.com
•Create a Powerpoint to teach students how to identify  

Election Day Assignments Classroom Reporter 11/8/2016

Election Day Activities

Email all your answers to Mr. Grove for a completion grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9H3gvnN468

Activity 1:

Go to ProCon.org

If you have not taken the nonpartisan quiz, please take it.

Click “Topics” A-Z and choose your most important 5 topics.

What issues are most important to you?

Typed at least 1 sentence per issue.

Why? Which side do you believe?

Activity 2:

Look at your ballot, choose the candidate you know and you want to vote for.

Then the candidates that you do not know, Google search their name and read about the candidates and make a choice, and educating decision.

Take your time to google each of the candidates, research each side and decide on a candidate for each position.

You can use the following sites:

https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina_judicial_elections,_2016

http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/Campaign-2016.aspx

Classroom Reporter 11/2/2016

Science:
Today in science class we started our Chapter 4 Table of Contents and our Word Wall. We shared some good news about our Halloween weekend!

Social Studies

Today in social studies class we took a look at our Unit 3 Study Guide and our Unit 2: CFA questions. At the end we played a fun game of Kahoot!

Chapter 3 Science and Unit 3 Test Social Studies on 11/2/2016

Classroom Reporter 10/25/2016

Science:

                What we learned in class today was changing states of matter. I will describe how matter changes between states and write definitions of changing states. Like the freezing point of water is 0 degrees Celsius and vapor is a change from a liquid to a gas. And we all are taking test today chapter 3 section 4 notes.

Science 10/26/2016

We watched a 20 minute video on matter (density, volume, weight, etc.) Things we also learned about in the video was solids, liquids, gases, and plasma. We graded our quizzes from yesterday and worked on our u picks. 

Social Studies:

Social Studies

L.T.- I can explain the importance of the Bill of Rights. We identified the different amendments and explain what they mean.