Welcome to Mrs. Szych's Homepage

 

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(Click on your class below to access quizzes)

 

SS 1     Science 2      SS 3    

 

Science 4     Science 5

 

Review Your Quizzes

Play Review Games

Homework Assignments

(Extra Credit Assignments listed here too)

 

Click here for the 8th Grade Science Webpage

Click here for the 8th Grade Social Studies Webpage

 

  United Streaming-Check this site out to view thousands of videos on many educational topics (requires student log-in).

 

Welcome to my homepage. The eighth grade year is a wonderful and challenging one for everyone. Our main goal is to help all students succeed academically as well as personally to help prepare them for high school. The students in eighth grade complete an average of 1-1 1/2 hours of homework a night (total for all classes). If students ever forget what their assignments are or if they are absent, they should call their teachers' homework voicemail or visit that teacher’s webpage.

I prefer to be reached by email. My email address is szychmn@mansfieldct.org. I can also be reached by phone at 429-9341 ext. 303. My homework hotline extension is 6303, but my homework assignments are listed on the webpage—click the link at the top of the page.

 

Science Wallpaper

Mrs. Szych's 8th Grade Science Overview

*   In science, students will be completing various experiments, reading current event articles, and adding personal thoughts to class discussions daily.  Click on the link above for a complete overview.

 

Science Units

Each unit title connects you to Mr. Hand’s homepage where you will find all the science notes you will need as well as extra credit assignments.

Click HERE to see how Grade 8 meets the State Science Framework Standards.

 

Flight: 4 forces of flight, gravity, Bernoulli's principle, Newton's 3rd law, model building, and the scientific method.

 

         

 

 

 

Energy: Heat and temperature, heat and molecular behavior, pressure and molecular behavior, conduction, radiation, convection, evaporation, energy transformations, work and energy.

Use these links to help complete the School Heating Replacement Assignment:

Energy Resources

 

Comparing Energy Resources

 

Extra Credit Option for the Energy Unit.

Rube Goldberg Website

 

Gravity/Forces and Motion: Newton's laws, gravity, momentum, friction, rotational inertia, centripetal force, roller coasters, potential and kinetic energy, equations.

     * Conservation of Momentum PowerPoint

*    The Physics of Projectile Motion Tutorial and Water Balloon Game

*    Roller Coaster Ride: An interactive application of the Laws of Motion. You build it!

*     Check out our rollercoasters!

*    Newton’s Laws PPT

 

  Genetics: Human genetics, pedigrees and disease, Mendelian genetics, punnett squares, protein synthesis, genetic engineering.

*    Henry VIII and Sex-Linked Diseases PowerPoint

 *  DNA Workshop Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/

*   Inherit the Wind Website:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm

 

Immune System: Immunity, Pasteur, Fleming, Salk, antibiotics, vaccines, bacteria, and viruses.

 

                

 

 

Reproduction: The basic structure and function of the male and female reproductive systems.

  

 

Chemistry: Periodic table, atomic structure, covalent bonding, ionic bonding, chemical reactivity,chemical reactions, and nanotechnology.     

DENSITY POWERPOINT

Cartesian Divers Powerpoint

 

 

                 

             

            Trivia Page click here for fascinating facts about science.

 

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