Week of 12-10 to 12-14

6th-This week, we will be completing our earth science unit with a review of chapter 9, Water Erosion and Deposition, on Monday. We will then be having our test on Tuesday. For the remainder of the week, we will be introducing our Physics unit through the use of the egg drop lab in which students will be designing capsules to protect an egg from a fall of roughly 20 feet. 7th-We will be completing our Chapter 11 material this week. On Monday, we will be working in the lab on balloon races, which illustrate Newton's Third Law of Motion. On Tuesday, we will be reviewing our chapter 11 material in preparation for our chapter 11 test on Wednesday. We will then begin Chapter 12, Forces and Fluids. 8th-We will be having our chapter 6 test on Monday, Atomic Arrangement. Students have a study guide we completed on Friday to study from. They will also be using notes that we have been taking throughout the previous week. We will then begin our chapter on chemical reactions, chapter 7. We will be working on a poster project for this chapter. On Friday, we will be discussing the use of synthetic diamonds, as well as presenting our chapter posters.