grade8

=**Grade 8 **=

**Science**
**Instructional Activities**:
 * Project #1:** Weather Reports (Ryan Keser and Kirsten Alper, Lawrence)
 * Brief Description:** Students pretend to be weather forecasters for local TV broadcast
 * Objective**: content - create a five day weather forecast; technology - iMovie skills
 * This project is a culmination of the Weather unit in 8th grade. Students need to be able to discuss (with comfort) weather terms and conditions. For their "forecast" kids had to predict the weather five days in the future -- they had to include national maps and local maps complete with weather data and explanations. Also, they had to discuss one weather phenomenon such as tornados, hurricanes, blizzards, etc.
 * iMovie skills include: importing images, recording video, transitions, subtitles, voice overs, music
 * Photobooth skills: using custom backgrounds, exporting video and importing it to iMovie

Resources
 * 1) We looked at weather forecasts of local TV channels as examples.

**Declaration of Independence**

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**Constitution**

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**Civil War**

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**Bill of Rights**

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**Slavery**

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**Immigration**

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 * [[file:Immigration Webquest.pdf|Immigration Webquest]]

**Universal Declaration of Human Rights**

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