Welcome to the 2021 Innovation Day. A day to celebrate Science here at the OJCS. Find all the schedules and links to live presentations in the graphic below.
Click here to watch all of the videos that the middle school students created for their projects!
Renewable vs Non-Renewable Energy
Perseverance Mars Rover Powered by Uranium
The Scientific Method
Series vs. Parallel Circuits
Innovation Day Self and Peer Evaluation – link
How To Make Your Video using Screencastify Tutorial
Fixing Electrical Problems
There are so many uses for electricity. But what happens when something isn’t working right? Maybe your computer speakers are not working or your refrigerator isn’t staying cold. What do people do? They often need to take their appliance in to be repaired or have a technician come to the house to repair the appliance. The technician has to figure out what is wrong and why the device is not working properly. This process is called troubleshooting. Let’s practice some troubleshooting skills to solve electrical problems.
What is Static Electricity?
A form of Static Electricity is lightning… check out the video below of some amazing lightning strikes.
How Do Batteries Work?
Energy Conservation and at home Electricity Audit
Our Solar System
The Universe is Massive!
Solar System Simulator Activity (Make a copy for yourself in your Space folder and follow the instructions)
That Glorious Old Sun
That Glorious Old Sun Research Activity link (Make a copy and add it to your space folder before beginning) – Due Tuesday Dec. 8th
The Earth’s Orbit and Seasons
Phases of the Moon
Spring and Neap Tides
Spaceship Design Challenge Rubric
Spaceship Design Growth Mindset Reflection
Student Shuttles! Wow!
Eclipses
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, & Meteorites
Student code login details here
Canadians in Space
Chris Hadfield answers questions live from space! Follow Commander Hadfield on Twitter here
Blog Hunt # 1 link
Blog Hunt # 2 link
Properties of Air
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Please watch the video above and then answer the questions below in a google doc called ‘Properties of Air’. Place your google doc into your Flight folder.
Questions
1.List the 4 Properties of Air discussed in the video (you may have to go back to the videos and find them!)
2. Define the following terms from the videos
a) flight b) compress c) insulate
3. What is in the 2L bottle?
4. What did you observe when the bottle was held in hot water? Why do you think this happened?
5. What did you observe when the bottle was held in cold water? Why do you think this happened?
6. Give an example of hot air rising, and explain why this happens. Use the words density and molecules in your answer.
Lift vs. Gravity
Air in Motion – Part 1
Air in Motion – Part 2
Take Off
Paper Airplane Airport Challenge Questions
The Four Forces of Flight
The Four Forces link (Remember that we use Weight and Gravity interchangeably)
The Four Forces student questions sheet
Play around with this flight simulator to further your understanding of the four forces of flight (must have flash enabled)
Build Your Own Rocket
60 second Video Analysis Flipgrid
Adaptations of Flight
Review
Flight Review – Notes and Blog Hunt! (Make a copy and add it to your Flight folder)
Extras
Choose a Wow in World podcast to listen to
Practice your coding skills using these fun challenges from code.org
Here are some helpful tips as you expand on your web literacy, research, and digital citizenship skills. Feel free to download a copy and add it to the Research folder located in your Science folder to refer back to it when needed. Review Sheet found below.
Review Sheet
Grade 6 Science and Outdoor PE Video
Grade 7 Science and Outdoor PE Video
Grade 8 Science and Outdoor PE Video
Grade 6 into 7 Prep. Links and Resources
ECOSYSTEMS
Biotic vs. Abiotic Factors
Build your own Self Contained Biosphere student video
Food Webs
Ecosystems and Biomes link and video
Ecosystems Terminology and Organization
CHEMISTRY
Lab Rubric
Matter and the Particle Theory
The Periodic Table of Elements
Some Key Concepts About Elements and their Atoms
HEAT
What is Heat?
Thermal Expansion Video
Heat Transfer – Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
Radiant Energy
States of Matter and the Changes of State
STRUCTURES
Structure Types
Grade 7 into 8 Prep Links and Resources
CELLS
Plant Cell Organelles
Cell Structures
Compound Microscope Parts
Preparing Slides
Diffusion and Osmosis
FLUIDS
Properties of Fluids: Viscosity
Properties of Fluids: Density
What is Density and How to Calculate Student Note
Density Explained
Calculating Density and Buoyancy Online Simulator
Archimedes Gold Crown Problem – Solved using Density
Fluids Under Pressure: Hydraulics vs. Pneumatics video
SYSTEMS IN ACTION
6 Types of Simple Machines
Net Forces Explanation
Levers – Class 1, Class 2, Class 3
Calculating Mechanical Advantage
Gears
Pulleys and Mechanical Advantage
ELECTRICITY
What is Static Electricity?
Components of Electric Circuit
How Solar Energy is Transformed into Electricity
Series vs Parallel Circuits
Build Your Own Circuit Simulator
Grade 8 into 9 Prep Links and Resources
CHEMISTRY
Properties of Matter (Physical properties vs Chemical properties)
Changes in Matter (Physical changes vs. Chemical changes)
Elements and Reading the Periodic Table
Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
Some Key Concepts About Elements and their Atoms
How to Draw Bohr Rutherford Diagrams
Covalent vs. Ionic bonding
BIOLOGY
Food Chains and Food Webs
Biogeochemical Cycles
BIODIVERSITY
ELECTRICITY
Static Electricity
Charging and Object by Induction
Series and Parallel Circuits
SPACE
The Milky Way
Outer Space
The Solar System
The Moon
Moon Phases
Comets, Asteroids, Meteors, Meteoroids, Meteorites
Below are all of the presentations, videos, and assignments for our unit on Biodiversity. Scroll down to the bottom to find the COULD DO section.
MUST DO
Lesson 1: What is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity Videos
Lesson 2: The 5 Kingdoms and Classification
Here is a copy of the presentation used in the screencast above.
Lesson 3: Classification of Trees
PDF of Classifying Trees Slides Presentation
Tree Identification Resources
Natural History Museum Tree Identification Key
Lesson 4: At Home Biodiversity Scavenger Hunt Presentation (links below)
Scavenger Hunt Bingo Card link
Lesson 5: Classifying Animals – Invertebrates
PDF of Invertebrates Presentation
Lesson 6: Vertebrates
PDF of Vertebrates Presentation
Lesson 7: Variety of biodiversity within species, communities, ecosystems importance to survival and resilience. Intro to CoSpaces online software tutorial/account creation.
Lesson 8: Intro to CoSpaces Activity link
Lesson 9: CoSpaces Biodiversity VR Assignment link
CoSpaces Navigation Shortcuts PDF
Biodiversity VR checklist and reflection link
Check out one student project and screencast here.
COULD DO
Bill Nye Video: Biodiversity
Bill Nye Video: Biodiversity Handout
Ear Saver .stl file for use in TinkerCAD file
Practice your coding skills with code.org Minecraft or Dance party activities
Learn how to code, tell stories, and make games using Scratch
Here is the presentation on Aerodynamics, or air in motion, and Bernoulli’s Principle. Below is the video from the presentation on Bernoulli’s Principle and low air pressure experiments.
Ms. G’s shared documents
Extra Space videos