8th Science-COVID Assignments

Complete the visual summary and lesson review
p. 24 q.16-21
p. 25 q. 1-15

Complete the visual summary and lesson review.

p.12 qns. 15-18
p.13 qns. 1-11

This will require you to:
1. Login to Think Central first
2. Then click the link to the lab: Properties of Waves
3. Complete the lab by progressing through the interactive slides
4. The end will generate a document of your collected data and answers
5. Download the document
6. Submit the document here

Complete the Visual Summary and Lesson Review
p.200 qns.13-16
p.201 qns. 1-12

Complete Visual Summary and Lesson Review Questions
p. 222 qn. 19-24
p.223 qn. 1-10

Complete the ten practice questions on balancing these chemical equations

Salaam my wonderful kids, I’m sorry I’m not with you today. I need a day to recover from my trip, and I pushed myself a bit too far yesterday.

Today however, I believe I have an interesting and relevant assignment for you. In preparation for Ramadhan, I want us to explore fasting from a scientific perspective in our body. I’m sure in Islamic studies you go over it’s impact on our spirit and soul, and all the rulings behind fasting and Ramadhan.

We all know that one of the greatest wisdoms behind fasting is restricting ourself so we learn self-control and access our spirituality on a deeper level, however, there is also a slew of epic benefits we gain as well.

Your Assignment:
I have summarised twelve different scientific benefits of fasting for you (I’ll list below). Your job is to select TWO of the twelve, research them, and summarise in your own words (min 200 words for each). Cover how this works and why it’s good for you. This can include physical and psychological benefits. Take the entire class period to complete this assignment, it is due today. Submit as a Doc.

It goes without saying, plagiarism will result in a straight up zero, no ifs ands or buts.

1. Detoxifying
2. Appetite Suppressant
3. Metabolism
4. Weight Loss
5. Immune System
6. Blood Pressure
7. Training with HGH(human growth hormone)
8. Improved Cardiovascular Function
9. Balancing Mental Health
10. Managing Blood Sugar
11. Radiant Complexion /Anti-ageing
12. Healthier Brain and Cognitive Function

I look forward to seeing what you discover and how you present it!! Make this interesting, and I pray this gives us greater motivation with our fasting this Ramadhan.

Complete the questions for Visual Summary and Lesson Review
p.132 qns. 18-23
p.133 qns 1-10

Complete the visual summary and review questions
p.110 qns. 20-24
p.111 qn.1-10

This debate will pit traditional fossil fuel industries against all alternative energy sources including:
-Nuclear
-Geothermal
-Hydropower
-Wind
-Solar
-and any others you can think of.

You shall be divided into two teams for each respective side. You will NOT get to select your side, and so the challenge here is to be able to create powerful arguments and counter arguments for something you may not believe in.

In today's class, you shall prep for your debate with your team. Ideal preparation includes:
-Historical facts
-Statistics, and real numbers
-Statements on economics and finance
-Throw in some scientific facts
-Speak on the environment
-Name drop people with significant contributions, and maybe even quote them
-Critical thinking beyond today. What could happen in the future
-Prepare counter arguments to arguments you may expect from the other side
-Consider weaknesses in YOUR own arguments, play devil's advocate

To submit: Your appointed leader submits ONE doc that shows collaboration with the rest of the team. Indicate your team-members with a key of different colours. Each team member contributes in their own colour so I can tell how much they did behind the scenes for prep.

you got this peeps. Allaaah be with you!

Let's knock this outta the park fast.
p.86 complete questions 24-31
p.87 complete questions 1-12

then expect a nice short quiz on this Friday. It'll be self observed, meaning I wont be there to observe you so there is a level of trust here. It will be timed though, so I'll schedule its release and closure.

<3

Considering this stuff is SUPER basic, I'll use it as an opportunity to review before we get into chemical reactions and energy.

Complete questions 11-18 on p. 70-72
Complete lesson review questions 1-10 p.73

You got this, peeps!

Compete the visual summary and lesson review questions.
p.246 q.16-20
p.246 q. 1-10

We will create a study guide next week Tuesday for a test we will have on the ENTIRE unit on Wednesday.

To wrap up our unit on volcanoes, please complete the following questions
p.235-236 q. 15-22
p. 237 q.1-10

Note that question 17 asks for you to design a poster for a school on volcano safety procedures. The minimum I will expect is a list of instructions. However, I would love to welcome more visually interesting designs we can share with the class! consider colours, drawings, and illustrations of procedures.

Thank you guys and have an epic weekend!

Complete questions on page 199
Question 1-9
Submit as a completed doc

This is independent work for the week, since I wont be seeing you all for class this week due to the science fair. It will what you already know about Earth's layers while teaching you more in-depth about its physical layers.

In your notes, write down all highlighted terms (definitions)
Draw and label the diagram on p. 196

To submit, google doc completing all the following:
p. 192-198
qns. 5-15

Final step ladies and gentlemen!

Now we stitch all our parts together to create our presentation. We have MAP testing next week as well, so I am coordinating with Sr. Farea on when we can present your findings while giving you all 5-8 minutes each. This means you'll need to pack in much in a short time.

To submit: your final presentation in Google Slides format. 7 SLIDES ONLY. The breakdown of what is needed in each slide is as follows. You are allowed to add extra media beyond what is required, such as images, sound files, and SHORT video clips. Follow this STRICTLY to ensure you cover everything in the time you have to present.

Slide 1. Welcome slide with a title of your project, your research question and your name
Slide 2. A SUMMARY of your background research. What did you research, why did you research it, and how it
helped you prepare for your experiments to answer your research question. Then include your hypothesis
Slide 3. Your experiment design. Include an image of all your materials, a list of your materials and the steps to
your experiment.
Slide 4. List your independent (IV) and dependent (DV) variables. This is the variable you are changing to test
its effect (IV), and the variable you are measuring after your IV (DV). Also include how you managed to
control your experiments other variables (keeping all other factors the same to reduce variations and
errors).
Slide5. Data collected. Include your raw data in a table, before it is processed. Needs to be easy to read.
Slide 6. Your processed data in any charts where we can see it clearly.
Slide 7. Conclusion statement (one sentence, likes seriously only one sentence) and a reflection statement on
what didn't work out so well and how you could improve it. Also include a statement on possible follow
up experiments to learn more on the topic!

Attached is the grading rubric to help you excel in each of the aspects.
I wish you all the best and I am available for all your questions until due time. Make us proud!

complete the following multiple choice quiz

You are now ready to conduct your experiment.
You know what you are investigating
You know how to control it
You know what you need for it

Now conduct it and ensure you collect the data you need to answer your investigation (your research question). Furthermore, process your data in an appropriate way. This may include calculating averages or differences, then creating graphs or charts to represent the data.

To submit, a doc with your collected data, and your processed data. You may be measuring time, temperature, length, colour etc. Make sure you include the correct units for your data. Then you are processing it by creating a chart and/or graphs after any kind of calculations necessary.

Complete the visual summary and review questions
p. 90 Qns. 23-27
p. 91 Qns 1-11

Please submit your ONE image of all your materials you’ll use for your experiment.

Due after break:
The next step is to do your experiment. You’ll have all break to conduct your experiment.m, up until the first weekend we return. That’s three weeks. Please record your process and results by writing it out. Feel free to supplement your recordings with other forms of media, such as images, video, audio and even diagrams.

I wish you the best and pray you have fun with this! Peace out homies ✌️ 🚶‍♂️

In your groups of 3-4 people, research the following for an earthquake, volcano and tsunami. Create one slide for each and present as a group.
-Name
-Location
-Time
-Impact on society and nature
-Magnitude or strength
-Add an image if available

This assignment is due next week Monday.
For our next steps, I'd like us to begin thinking of what we will need to conduct our experiments. For this assignment make a bulleted list of all the things you'll need. Think of everything and leave nothing out! This can include stopwatches, measuring cups, headphones, water, baking soda, sugar, fire, string, specific foods, sunglasses, paper and pencil to record, thermometer .... EVERY and ANYTHING you need.

Keep in mind the ease of access you have to getting them. Collect all that you can this week, make orders on line for what you need, and go out and buy from stores as well. By Friday the 18th, I will ask you to submit photo evidence of all your materials collected!

May Allaah be with you guys! Bring your ideas to life!!

complete the test

Complete the visual summary and lesson review
p.24-25
Visual summary qns. 18-21
Lesson review qns. 1-9

Now that you've:
1. Identified your research topic
2. Identified your independent and dependent variable

This week we will move on to doing background research! The purpose of this is to learn and teach about your research topic. Research all relevant topics to your main topic. For example, if you are researching the effect of different running shoes on running speeds, then you would research different types of shoes, what they are made of, how they help with running speeds, and how they are designed specifically for running.

To submit: at least a full page/300 words of written research in your own words. I expect no plagiarism, and your sources cited! Don't be surprised if you receive no credit for falsified and copied information.

Friday, Dec 4th
*Students staying at home are to complete the same assignment at home*

1st Shift (8-9am)
Twiga and Ndovu:
Malak, Manar, Noor, Qassim, Retaaj, Hannan, Issra, Jana, Layan, Layla, Ahmad


2nd Shift (9-10am)
Chui and Kifaru:
Adam, Sulayman, Ammar, Asad, Hana, Sumaya, Rokaya, Sakeenah, Salma, Sharia, Shefa

Salaaam beautiful people!

Today’s assignment will help you take your science fair topic to the next practical stage, even if you haven’t fully defined your topic yet. Working backwards from how to design can sometimes help you find a topic!

For this assignment I’d like you to complete the following in a google doc.

1. State your topic of interest in the form of a question. For example “how does x affect y?” Or, “how do different shoe types affect the speed of a runner?”

2. Identify your independent variable. This is the factor you are testing to see it’s effect on something. In the previous example, it’s x, or the different shoe types.

3. Finally, identify your dependant variable. This is the factor that is affected by your independent variable. I’m the precious example, it would be y, or the time of the runner’s run with each shoe type.

Thank you guys for being so awesome, hard working and critically thinking. For this of you who rush through this, PLEASE, for the love of Allaaah, SLOW DOWN and ask the questions you need to if you need help! Have an epic weekend!

1. Identify the 7 steps of the scientific method.
2. Define each step with at least one full sentence
3. Apply the 7 steps to with the example experiment "How does light intensity affect the rate of photosynthesis"

Submit one to two paragraphs (for each side) summarizing our discussion points for and against bioengineering, its benefits and ethical dangers as a google Doc.

Friday, Nov 5th
*Students staying at home are to complete the same assignment at home*

1st Shift (8-9am)
Chui and Ndovu:
Ahmad, Sumaya, Ammar, Asad, Hanna, Layan, Hannan, Sulayman, Layla, Issra, Noor, Sakeenah


2nd Shift (9-10am)
Twiga and Kifaru:
Qaasim, Adam, Jana, Manar, Retaaj, Malak, Rokaya, Sharia, Shefa, and Salma

p. 156-157
Complete summary questions 17-21
Complete review questions 1-13

Friday Oct 24th
Turns out we are doin this lab at home this week, sorry my dearest!
This lab will explore allele frequency with only two traits. The lab instructions are all detailed in the link, but for an overview of the materials you need (which you most likely have at home already) are as follows:

-Two cups
-25 red beans and 25 white beans per cup
-table to fill out your trials

Its pretty straightforward, have fun doing it...ALONE *cry face*

I wanna give a shoutout to Sakeenah for bringing up a really awesome point. She asked the following:

"I was wondering if a person with triple x syndrome could reproduce and i found out that they can, but does this mean they have a 50% chance of having children with xxy or xxx? because if the xxx split and the side with two x'x get's fertilized by any male chromosome then that means they have a 50% percent chance, and if the side with one x gets fertilized by either male egg it will be normal but that is also a 50% chance. so isn't it kind of risky for them to reproduce. unless they are okay with having a child have that disorder of course."

To which, I responded with the idea of genetic screening- the ability to check the genetic makeup of an individual even before they are born. So, to prep for a discussion, I'd like you to do a bit of research and form a personal opinion on the matter.

1. Define genetic screening and how soon it can be done on an unborn child
2. What kind of traits to doctors and parents look for in a genetic screening test?
3. What are some of the advantages of knowing ahead of birth
4. What are some of the disadvantages
5. How do you personally feel about this power? Is it something you would do? Why or why not?

Submit as a doc.

Sorry fam, I'm not feeling my best today, so I'll be assigning this research assignment for you instead. I hope you enjoy it!

The link is an introduction and list to genetic disorders. I would like you to CLAIM ONE in the comments so that you're the only one doing it. Complete the following and submit as a google SLIDE today:

1. Define codon
2. Define the three types of mutations
-insertion
-deletion
-substitution
3. Select one genetic disorder from the list you find interesting and summarize in your own words what type of mutation it is, how it is cause, what the symptoms are and if there are any cures to it.

Much love fam.

Complete the following form
15 Questions multiple choice

It is no surprise that the more we use antibiotics against bacteria, the more they become resistant to it. This forces scientists to constantly have to develop new drugs for the ever-evolving world of infectious diseases. In order to better understand the bacteria that can make us sick and how these bacteria are evolving antibiotic resistance, scientists grow bacteria on agar plates, which they will study in their laboratories.

Of course, this acts as a precursor to a discussion we'll have on evolution, but before that, we want to explore how bacteria can pass down traits of heritable resistance.

1. Summarize the article into its most important points in two paragraphs (no less than 6 sentences)
2. Research an example of any organism of your choosing that has been forced to pass down a specific trait because of its environment. To best illustrate your research, use an example of two similar organisms that live in wildly different habitats/environments.

Complete the virtual lab on Heredity, and submit your lab report at the end as a PDF or Google Doc.

Complete the following assignment

Read and complete p.128-133
That includes questions 13-23 and Lesson Review questions 1-11
Submit as doc this Thursday night (Friday is your science MAP test). You can do it all in one shot or pace yourself over the next couple days.

This will cover single gene influences, environmental influence, complete and incomplete dominance. I plan to go it ALL with you in class and further expand on punnet squares and calculating probabilities (typically extra stuff you see in high school).

After reading the attached article, please answer the following questions and submit as a doc. This assignment may require you to do further research on your own.

-Compare and contrast the difference between genotypes and phenotypes
-Explain how a trait that is not expressed can still be present in an organism (hidden trait)
-Define the relationship between dominant and recessive genes
-Define the following technical terms: Homozygous, Heterozygous
-Research 'The Human Genome Project' and explain its potential impact with every added discovery (at least one paragraph/3 sentences)

We will break out into our house groups and each student will submit their own work.

Text book p. 120-121
Questions 17-24
Review Questions 1-10
Fully bake your answers, I don't want any half-baked nonsense please.
Submit as doc

No notes
Silence
10 question quiz
15 min to complete
Absent students to do outside of class, under teacher supervision
Allaah be with you!

Sorry for the delay guys! So, for today's assignment I would like you to play this game. Yes, a game with 9 levels. Have fun with it as it reviews sexual and asexual reproduction. To submit:

Pre-Game Discussion Questions to submit as a google DOC:
-What is sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction?
-What are the key differences?
-What are some different forms of asexual reproduction we see in organisms?

(not to submit) In class on Tuesday, we shall have the Post-Game Discussion Questions:
-What is the difference between fragmentation and budding?
-How are the genes split up in sexual reproduction?

This lab requires you engage with your family. Make this fun and bring the whole family together in a gathering to play. If you cannot print out the cards, feel free to create your own on scrap pieces of paper. I am extending the deadline to Sunday for you to have time this weekend to get your family together.

For submission:
1. write a paragraph about your findings on the traits in your family
2. Create a table with the 10 traits identified and research the following for each trait
a. historically where they originate from
b. what demographics is it most commonly found

You have been broken into four different houses,
Chui (yellow)
Ndovu (blue)
Twiga (green)
Kifaru (red)

Your leader will submit one google slide with the following information
1. Image of the animal from the Swahili name
2. A fun fact about the animal
3. A list of all your house members

Read pages 87-89
answer the five short answer questions and submit as a google doc.