November 4/5, 2025

• Light Investigations
• Notebook check #2
• Light behavior video
• PhET Bending Light (worksheet)

Homework: Notebook check, PhET Bending Light

November 3, 2025

• New seats
• Edpuzzle in GC
• Light notes (slideshow)
• Update notebook

No homework

October 30/31, 2025

• Grading period / test retakes Monday lunch
• Scary/Gross Science!
• 40 minutes to make your slide
• Finished slides go into the Slideshow on Google Classroom
• Presentations
• Voting for grossest and scariest

Homework: Brush your teeth!  Cavities SUUUUUUCK. (write NO HW)

October 28/29, 2025

• Waves Quiz
• Analog vs. Digital Doodle Notes
• Link (password = science)
• Reading material
• Halloween project - choose your topic

Homework: Start your project slide in Google Classroom, find 1+ extra source

October 27, 2025

• Waves Quiz next class
• Blooket
• Waves Worksheet 1

Homework: Study wave assignments and vocab for quiz

October 23/24, 2025

• LoL Galaxy Waves
• Grading period ends Oct 31
• Waves Quiz Tuesday/Wednesday
• Notebook/Aeries/missing work
• Review PhET Waves
• Investigation: Analyzing Waves
• Blooket Practice

Homework: Blooket waves screenshot #2

October 21/22, 2025

• PhET HW/Planner Check/Missing work
• Wave Properties Vocab (slideshow)
• Slinky Lab
• Physics Simulation on GC if time

Homework: Blooket practice screenshot GC

October 16/17, 2025

• Phenomenon: WAVES
• Quiz retakes and scores
• Claim/Evidence/Reasoning
• Waves Vocabulary (slideshow)
• PhET Waves Intro (esp)(worksheet)

Homework: Finish PhET Waves, planner check next class

October 14/15, 2025

• Forces and Newton Quiz
• Cart Engineering Challenge

Homework: None

October 13, 2025

• Blooket Practice
• Time to finish project slides
• If finished with slides:
• Take the Utah Challenge
• Review your recent assignments for quiz
• Practice more with Blooket

Homework: Quiz next class on Forces + Newton

October 9/10, 2025

• Balloon Car Project due by end of class
• Final Test with Radke
• Slides due - make them look good!
• Finished?  Blooket (GC) and other work.

Homework: Blooket HW.  Review your study guide and assignments for quiz

October 7/8, 2025

• Balloon Car Project + Slides

Homework: Check Aeries, do missing work.

October 6, 2025

• Planner check / turn in Newton poster
• Lesson 2+3 Study Guide
• Balloon Cars Design

Homework: Balloon materials (if you forgot), otherwise NO HW

October 2/3, 2025

• Newton's 3 Laws poster
• Disney 3 Laws video
• Check Aeries, update notebook

Homework: Finish 3 Laws Poster.  Balloon Car materials due Monday

September 30/October 1, 2025

• New seats
• Friction PhET
• Friction Lab
• Balloon Car Groups document

Homework: Balloon Car materials Oct. 6

September 29, 2025

• Update Notebook
• Finish 2nd Law PhET and Lab
• Extra time?  Check in with Balloon Car partner
• New seats next class

Homework: Balloon Car materials due next Monday Oct. 6

September 25/26, 2025

• Your examples of 1st law
• Forces Vocabulary 9-10 (slideshow)
• Newton's 2nd Law / PhET / Spanish
• Worksheet / Spanish
• Car Acceleration (2nd Law) Lab
• Balloon Car Project

Homework: Balloon Car materials due by October 6

September 23/24, 2025

• Notebooks returned
• Forces Vocab #7-8 (slideshow)
• First Law Lab

Homework: First Law Question on GC

September 22, 2025

• Turn in Science Notebook up front
• Cosmos episode 1:
• Standing up in the Milky Way

Homework: None

September 18/19, 2025

• Does the Third Law work in space?
• Notebook check #1
• Forces Vocabulary #5+6 (slideshow)
• Balanced and Unbalanced Forces Drawing
• Planner check end of class

Homework: Notebook check #1 due Monday

September 16/17, 2025

• Meet Isaac Newton! video
• Forces Vocabulary (slideshow) 1-4
• Forces and Motion PhET (Español)
• Worksheet (Español)
• Legends of Learning: Force on Google Classroom

Homework: Finish Forces and Motion PhET

September 15, 2025

• Acceleration! Intro Video
• BNtSG
• Acceleration Drawings

Homework: Finish Acceleration Drawings

September 11/12, 2025

• Cause and Effect: Paper Airplane Design
• Breaking Down the Walls day - no homework

Homework: None

September 9/10, 2025

• p12 Motion Vocab (slideshow)
• Basketball Frame of Reference
• p13 Car and Paper Clip Model
• Car and Plane video

Homework: Finish Car and Plane

September 8, 2025

• Studying screenshots due
• Pre-test studying
• Metrics quiz
• Planner check
• LoL: Reference Frames and Units

Homework: None

September 4/5, 2025

• Kahoot 
• Finish Metric Olympics sheet and review
• Update Notebook - tape + glue
• How your grade works!
• Blooket practice
• how to turn in on Google Classroom
• Metrics Quiz Monday

Homework: Complete Blooket studying on GC

September 2/3, 2025

• Metric Kahoot
• Metric Olympics

Homework: No new homework

August 28/29, 2025

• Metric conversion practice
• Metric monsters
• Metric kahoot

Homework: Finish Metric assignments

August 26/27, 2025

• Looking at Aeries
• Metric Intro
• Mass and Volume Practice

Homework: No homework if Aeries is complete

August 25, 2025

• Notebook cover and update
• Planner Check/Signed Lab rules

Homework: Missing work

August 21/22, 2025

• Poster turn-in
• Bathroom passes
• Pom Pom Challenge
• The Engineering Design Process (notes slideshow)
• taco party, cleaning waste beach town

Homework: No homework

August 19/20, 2025

• KJHS Bootcamp day 1
• Materials/signed sheet check.
• Notebook setup
• Lab Safety Poster (español) and Rules

Homework: Complete Lab Safety Poster, get rules signed

August 18, 2025

• Mr. Radke's Name Practice
• Measure Me Lab
• Four Corners

Homework: Signed sheet and materials by next class Tuesday/Wednesday (August 19/20)

August 15, 2025

• Chromebook setup
• The CANS OF DESTINY
• The Red Cup Challenge

Homework: Class rules signed and materials check by next Tuesday/Wednesday (August 19/20)

August 14, 2025

• Put your name tent on your desk in front of you!
• Class Scavenger Hunt
• Name tent sharing

Homework: Class rules signed and materials check by next Tuesday/Wednesday (August 19/20)

August 13, 2025

• Welcome to 8th Grade Science!
• Class rules and materials list
• Name tents

Homework: Class rules signed and materials check by next Tuesday/Wednesday (August 19/20)

Start of 2025-26 School Year

 NEW YEAR ABOVE

May 29/30, 2025

• Rocket Launch #2
• Finish Slides, share to Turn in Document
• Notebook check #6 due next class

Homework: Notebook check #6 due next class

May 27/28, 2025

• Rocket repair and modification day!
• You may change ONE thing about your rocket as you repair it.
• You should also almost finish your slides today.
• Only the launch 2 data will be missing.
• FINAL NOTEBOOK CHECK

Homework: Complete notebook check, due Monday/Tuesday.

May 22/23, 2025

• Sit in Rocket Groups
• Get rockets
• Fill with 1L water
• After launch: write data into your packet + work on slides

Homework: Check Aeries and Google Classroom for missing/incomplete work.

May 20/21, 2025

• Rocket Project Building Day 1
• Slide assignments / Rocket design / IV and DV
• Build rockets/work on slides
• Rocket launch next class
• Clothing, prep and recording
Homework: Final notebook check with rocket packet due June 2/3

May 16/19, 2025

• Rocket Material Check
• When We Left Earth

Homework: Rocket Building next class - bring in forgotten materials!

May 14/15, 2025

• Final Notebook Update!
• Solar System Vocab (slideshow)
• When We Left Earth Episode 1
• Ordinary Supermen

Homework: Rocket materials due next class

May 12/13, 2025

• Review rocket materials w/group
• Measure Me Lab Part 2
• Flame Test Lab

Homework: Rocket Materials due Friday (A day) or Monday (B Day)

May 8/9, 2025

• Rocket Project Groups
• Rhino Day 2
• Warm-up
• Lab activity
• Finish Rhino packet + Post-quiz

Homework: Rocket Materials due May 16(A day) or May 19 (B day)

May 2/7, 2025

• Rhino Endocrinology Pre-Quiz
• Rhino Data Sheet (slideshow)
• Hormone Activity
• Videos: Last of the Rhinos/Frozen Zoo
• Rhino Hyperdoc
• I know that Rhino / How humans relate

No homework

April 30/May 1, 2025

• Frog hyperdoc
• Mt. Yellow-Legged Mountain Frog
• Radio Telemetry
• Cards, how to use, data sheet
• Finding the frogs!  Turn in papers stapled at end of class.

No homework

April 28/29, 2025

• Seating request form for May
• Different objects fall at different speeds?
• Why do we need Biodiversity?
• Tree Biodiversity
• Endangered Species Act
• Notes / Questions
• Albatross and other endangered species

No homework

April 24/25, 2025

• CAST Testing Day 2
• End of grading period

No homework

April 22/23, 2025

• Notebook Check #5 and Energy Final Project due
• Turn in to the front when you come in
• CAST Testing today and next class

No homework

April 18/21, 2025

• CAST Test next class - bring SSR book, eat and sleep well
• Notebook Check #5 due next class
• Energy Final Project

Homework: Notebook Check #5 due next class

April 16/17, 2025

• Check and correct study guide
• Notebook check
• Blooket Practice
• Skate Park Energy Practice
• CAST Practice

Homework: KE/PE Blooket practice on Google Classroom.  Prepare for Final Energy Activity!

April 14/15, 2025

• Update Notebook
• Roller Coaster Lab
• (Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3)
• KE/PE Study Guide
• Energy unit final activity April 18/21
• Notebook check and all work due April 22/23

Homework: Complete study guide

April 3/4, 2025

• MMM Results
• Energy Car and Mass Lab
• Bill Nye: Energy

No homework

April 1/2, 2025

• New seats / MMM
• Hydroelectric KE/PE
• Energy Car Lab
• Blooket PE/KE

Homework: Blooket practice + screenshot on Google Classroom by next class

March 28/31, 2025

• Energy Unit begins!
• Potential and Kinetic Energy Vocab (slideshow)
• Energy Skate Park PhET (worksheet)
• Roller Coaster CPO lab

Homework: Check Aeries and Science Notebook for missing/incomplete assignments to finish!

March 26/27, 2025

• Artificial Selection Project presentations
• MMM update
• Ecosystem Restoration Projects

Homework: Complete ecosystem restoration projects, check Aeries, complete missing assignments

March 24/25, 2025

• MMM Update
• Human Impact on Evolution Notes
• Slideshow
• Artificial Selection Project
• To be presented next class in groups

Homework: Finish your slides for the Artificial Selection Project

March 20/21, 2025

• Notebook update
• MMM Update
• Resource Board Game

Homework: Missing assignments

March 18/19, 2025

• Study time / Evolution Quiz
• Cosmos: Some of the Things Molecules Do
• MMM Update

Homework: None

March 14/17, 2025

• MMM First Results / Plants checkup
• LoL: ADAPT game (Google Classroom)
• Evolution Review for Evolution test next class
• Check in for missing assignments
• Kahoot part 1 + part 2 / Blooket
• Extra time: missing work

Homework: Do Blooket, study using your study materials for the quiz next class.

March 12/13, 2025

• Embryological Development
• Your Inner Fish
• March Mammal Madness Wild Card Results

Homework: Study for quiz in two classes

March 7/11, 2025

• Evidence of Common Ancestry
• Build a (Evolutionary) Tree
• March Mammal Madness
• Finish Bracket: Left Side / Right Side
• Put answers in Google Form on Google Classroom
• Put photo of paper bracket on Google Classroom too

Homework: March Mammal Madness must be done by evening tonight(March 11).

March 5/6, 2025

• Test Review
• Genes and Mutation Videos: 1/2/3
• The Outcome of Mutation (paper)
• March Mammal Madness
• Intro vid / Slide deck
• Left side / Right Side

Homework: Finish March Mammal Madness Bracket by Monday

March 3/4, 2025

• Staple and turn in Alien Poster
• Study time and Natural Selection quiz
• Evolutionary Relationships Vocab (slideshow)
• Genes and Mutations coloring
• Native Plants

No homework

February 27/28, 2025

• Quiz next class
• Lesson 24+25 Study Guide
• Design an Alien
• Native Seeds

Homework: Complete your Alien Design, Study Quizlet for quiz next class

February 25/26, 2025

• CAST Practice (p61)
• PhET Natural Selection (paper)
• Rock Pocket Mouse
• paper / illustrations / video

Homework: 5 min/day study for Natural Selection/Evolution Quizlet - quiz next week

February 14/24, 2025

Career Day!

• Graduation and college requirements
• Careers in Science
• California Career Zone/California Colleges
• Budgeting / How To Slides

No homework

February 12/13, 2025

• Welcome to the Galapagos Islands
• Natural Selection Simulation (paper)
• Finish L24-25 notes (slideshow)
• Galapagos Finches and their beaks
• L24 Inv1 Bird Beak Lab
• Turn in science notebooks

No homework

February 10/11, 2025

• CAST Practice
• L24+25 Vocab Evolution of Life (slideshow)
• Darwin Edpuzzle on GC
• Investigation: Mouthpart Variation
• Notebook Check #4

Homework: Complete Notebook Check, turn in next class

February 6/7, 2025

• Missing Assignments
• Absolute Dating Investigation
• Bead Picture Slides
• Lesson 23 Fossils Vocab (slideshow)
• Index Fossils

Homework: Check Aeries, do missing work

February 4/5, 2025

• New seats next class
• Yosemite and the History of Earth
• Sonoran Desert Dig Site
• Fossil Timeline Part 2

Homework: Complete Fossil Timeline if not done in class

January 31/February 3, 2025

• Cosmos: The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
• Video notes
• Webquest: Geologic Time
• Extra time?  Work on missing assignments or work from other classes.

No homework

January 29/30, 2025

• Layers of Time game
• Layers of the Grand Canyon video
• Finish Earth's History Notes (slideshow)
• Fossil Timeline - front side today.  Back side next week.

No homework

January 27/28, 2025

• Noncontact Forces Quiz
• Turn in One Pager
• L22 Earth's History Vocab 1-6 (slideshow)
• Rock Puzzles
• Fossil Layer Puzzle
• Layers of time game

No homework

January 23/24, 2025

• Magnet investigation / Kahoot
• One-Pager for Noncontact Forces
• Quizlet
• Check Aeries, work on missing work

Homework: Study for Noncontact Forces Quiz next class

January 21/22, 2025

• Lesson 16 Magnetism vocab (slideshow)
• Lesson 16 Investigation 1
• Electromagnetic Strength Lab
• Kahoot
• Noncontact Forces Quiz next Mon/Tues

Homework: Study Quizlet 5 min/day Google Classroom

January 16/17, 2025

• ScienceWorld
• PhET: Modeling Electric Fields
• Circuit Construction Kit
• On Google Classroom
• van de Graaf Generator
• BNtSG

No homework

January 14/15, 2025

• Notebook update
• Electricity Vocab (slideshow)
• Static Electricity and Magnets Lab
• PhET: Travoltage / Balloons

Homework: Static Electricity Edpuzzle

January 10/11, 2025

• Gravitational Fields Simulator
• Britannica: Gravitational Force
• Lesson 14 Vocab (slideshow)
• PhET: Gravity Force / Orbits (paper)
• Gravitational Fields (paper)

No homework

January 8/9, 2024

• Welcome back!  Break talk.
• What is an Eclipse?  When?  Slides
• Crash Course Eclipses
• Eclipse Gizmos 1/2 - limited-time use!
• Why not every month?
• Eclipse Drawing for notebook

Homework: Be responsible: make sure you have all your class materials every day!