Science Component of our February unit lesson on Nonconformists will take place on the following days:
Day Four (Monday, February 5) Eighth grade students will respond (by 2/7) to the Google Classroom-generated question “How was Philadelphia’s Thomas Mutter an iconoclast and how did this lead to his remarkable success as a surgeon?” (in conjunction with the eighth grade trip to the Mutter Museum this week).
Day Six (Wednesday, February 7) Communication assessments: eighth graders will convey their responses to the Google Classroom prompt on Thomas Mutter
Day Fourteen (Tuesday, February 20) Working in groups of 3-4, eighth graders will be assigned an iconoclastic physicist--Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, Einstein, Hawking--and a related medium for conveyance--i-movie (PowToon, Toontastic, Do Ink, Flipbook), dry erase animation, Plotagon, Adobe Flash (see rubric for set-up on EdTech). Each 2-minute video will showcase these scientists’ contributions to the Special Theory of Relativity (due Tuesday, February 27). Each small group will complete another 2-4 minute film on i-movie that graphically depicts the following concepts from our Light And Sound text:
Properties of Waves
Properties and Interactions of Light
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Light Waves and Sight
Sound Waves and Hearing
Group 1: Patrick, Karli, Julia, Justin (Newton/Properties of Waves)
Group 2: Laila, Damya, Blu, Maeve (Faraday/Interactions of light)
Group 3: Frank, Dominique, Ryan, Graceshel (Maxwell/Electromagnetic Spectrum)
Group 4: Drew, Maya, Alanna, Wesley (Einstein/Light Waves and Sight)
Group 5: Tristan, Samara, Dahlia (Christian Doppler/Sound Waves and Hearing)
Similarly, seventh graders will create i-movies showing how mavericks in the field of biology contributed to our current understanding
Day Sixteen and Seventeen (Thursday, February 22 - Friday, February 23) Working in science committees, eighth graders will construct their animated movies on who contributed to the fields of light and sound, or more specifically, the Special Theory of Relativity (due 2/27)