RSS Alumni Kirill Dubrovsky will be bringing his University of Calgary club volleyball team to RSS and they will be  putting on a girl's camp Thursday after school from 3:30-5:30.  More details will be announced when I am told.

Volleyball:  No Gym Practice on Wednesday.  If the weather is good, we will set up in QE park.  Please look at this blog for more info.

Science 8:  Today were wrote the Practice Final and scored it.  We did the "penny in the cup lab", and made a number of lists to study material we have learned in past units.  Everyone was given a progress report, showing how their term 4 grade is calculated.

On Tuesday morning we will have our Final Exam.  You need to have pencils, a ruler, calculator, and an eraser.  I will provide you with a data page that has a world map with Tectonic Boundaries, and the Periodic table of the Elements.  Your binder, or at least its contents, will be collected on Tuesday morning too.

Science 8:  Today we reviewed microscopes and Cell Theory.  We spent time looking at pond water from Williamson's Lake, and saw many types of Zooplankton and Phytoplankton.  On Monday we will have a mini practice final, and on Tuesday we will have our Final Exam and I will collect your binder.

Science 8:  Geology Test today.  We did part II of the Heat Transfer Lab.  Practice Final on Monday.  Final Exam on Tuesday, June 20th.  Be sure to bring your calculator (not a phone), ruler, pencils and pens.  Please tidy your binder as I will want to collect it from you on June 20th.

Final Exam preparation skills we have covered so far: planning calendar, verbal review with a partner, binder organization, personal review of binder contents, sleeping with textbook under pillow for osmotic transfer of information.  Still to cover:  condensed notes, online resources, redoing portions of old assignments and labs.

A short summary of the content we covered this Semester:

Safety:  Lab safety
Biology:  Cell structure and Function;  How cells are Organized into tissues, organs, systems; Immune System.
Chemistry:  Kinetic Molecular Theory, Atomic Structure, Measurement (Density, mass, volume)
Optics and Waves:  Wave theory, Mirrors (plane, convex, concave), Lenses (convex, concave), the Human eye and vision
Earth Science:  Seismology , Continental Drift, Theory of Plate tectonics, Volcanoes

Science 8:  Today we did the Geology Practice Test, which is due on Thursday.  There will be a Gology test on Thursday.  We also started the Heat Transfer Lab, with a little experiment on Conduction.  At the bottom of your data table, explain how heat is conducted through a metal rod, using the Kinetic Molecular Theory.

Science 8:  Today we reviewed volcanos.  We also spent 10 minutes studying Chemistry (atoms, Kinetic Molecular Theory, changes of state, elements, density, etc).  We finished off with a WS on the world's Plate Boundaries.

Test on Geology Thursday.  Practice Final on Monday, June 19.  Final Exam on Tuesday, June 20.