March in the 8th Grade
Humanities
Students are wrapping up their essay reflections about visiting home-bound elders and will submit them for national competition on this Friday. The beauty of these relationships the students have developed with their elders really shines through their writing! It’s been a pleasure to read.
Additionally, students are deep in their study of the legacy of enslavement in the United States. They have read primary source narratives and are making their way through reading the New York Times’ 1619 Broadside.
Joseph
Math
The 8th Grade just finished a hefty unit about systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities. Now that the linear focus is out of the way, they will move on to explore Exponential and Quadratic Functions for their last two function units before moving on to Statistics. Exponential functions are useful to analyze data on populations, finance, and radioactive decay among other things. Exponential functions were also used to model and analyze the trends in COVID cases in 2020. There is a lot of useful information that can be obtained through the analysis of exponential functions and the 8th grade is about to experiment with that.
Science finished up the science of cooking unit by exploring different nutritions in food. We used simulation software to test food samples for fat, protein, sugar and starch. We also had an experiment in the lab where students figured out from four food samples which would have the largest amounts of sugar.
Later we started our new unit of physics of motion. Our first topic was the exploration of velocity. Students used a tube and marble in order to see if the angle of the tube would affect velocity. As always we made sure to be covid safe and clean all equipment between users. However this experiment allowed them to see the relationship between time and velocity. We later used google spreadsheets to graph our results. In the coming weeks we will continue exploring different physics topics.
Mike Noll
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