Grade 8 Science Activities

UNIT 1.  FORCE, MOTION AND ENERGY

Module 1.  Forces and Motion
     Activity 1.  Forces on Objects at Rest
     Activity 2.  Balance of Forces
     Activity 3.  Investigating Inertia
     Activity 4.  Force and Acceleration
     Activity 5.  Action-reaction

Module 2.   Work and Energy
     Activity 1.  Is There Work Done?
     Activity 2.  Rolling Toy
     Activity 3.  How POWER-ful Am I?

Module 3.  HEAT AND TEMPERATURE
     Activity 1.  Explaining Hotness or Coldness
     Activity 2.  Dye in Water
     Activity 3.1  What Happens When Ice Melts?
     Activity 3.2  What Happens to the Temperature of  Water as it Boils?
     Activity 4.  What is the Relationship between the Mass of the Material and the amount of                                Heat it can transfer?
     Activity 5.  Comparing Heat Capacities

Module 4.  ELECTRICITY
     Activity 1.  Current and Voltage
     Activity 2.  Current and Resistance
     Activity 3.  What's the Connection?
     Activity 4.  Stay Safe!

Module 5.  SOUNDS
     Activity 1.  The Dancing Salt and the Moving Beads
     Activity 2.  Characteristics of Waves:  Longitudinal and Transverse Waves
     Activity 3.  Sound Race... Where Does Sound Travel Fastest?
     Activity 4.  Chimes... Chimes...Chimes
     Activity 5.  Faster Sound.... In Hotter or Cooler?
     Activity 6.  Reflecting and Refracting Sound
  
Module 6.  COLORS OF LIGHT
     Activity 1.  Refraction of Light
     Activity 2.  The Colors of the Rainbow...The Colors of Light
     Activity 3.  Red Versus Violet
     Activity 4.  Which Color has the Most Energy?
     Activity 5.  The Color Spectrum Wheel Revisited
     Activity 6.  Scientific Explanations behind certain Beliefs

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UNIT 2.  EARTH AND SPACE

Module 1.  EARTHQUAKES AND FAULTS
     Activity 1.  A fault-y Setup
     Activity 2.  Stick 'n' Slip
     Activity 3.  Stick 'n' Shake
     Activity 4.  Where does an Earthquake Start?
     Activity 5.  Tsunami!
     
Module 2.  UNDERSTANDING TYPHOON
     Activity 1.  Plotting the PAR
     Activity 2.  Tracking a Tropical Cyclone
     Activity 3.  Dissecting a Tropical Cyclone

Module 3.  COMETS, ASTEROIDS AND METEORS
     Activity 1.  What Happens when a Comet or an Asteroid hits Earth?
     Activity 2.  Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite: How are they related?
     Activity 3.  Do Superstitions about Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors have Scientific Basis?
     

UNIT 3.  MATTER

Module 1.  THE PARTICLE NATURE OF  MATTER
     Activity 1.  Which is Matter, Which is Not?
     Activity 2.  What is Matter Made Up?
     Activity 3.  Are the Particles of Matter Moving?  What is between them?
     Activity 4.  What Changes take place when Water is left in an open container? 
     Activity 5.  What Changes take place when Water is heated or cooled?
     Activity 6.  What Changes takes place when ice turns into liquid Water?

Module 2.  ATOMS:  INSIDE OUT
     Activity 1.  "Charge" it to Experience!
     Activity 2.  The Big Difference.
     Activity 3.  Small but Terrible
     Activity 4.  What's in a Number?
  
Module 3.  PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS
     Activity 1.  Tracking the Path and constructing the Periodic Table
     Activity 2.  Metal..... Metal.... How reactive are you?
     

UNIT 4.  LIVING THINGS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT

Module 1.  BIODIVERSITY
     Activity 1.  What's in a name?
     Activity 2.  How do Bacteria in Yogurt look like?   
     Activity 3.  What can you do to prevent Dengue?
     Activity 4.  What is the importance of Biodiversity to Ecosystem?
     Activity 5.  I Create the Future
    
Module 2.  INTERACTIONS
     Activity 1.  How do you identify the components of food chain in an Ecosystem?
     Activity 2.  Making Food Webs
     Activity 3.  Meat Eaters vs. Plant Eaters
     
Module 3.  THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
     Activity 1.  Part 1A.  A Gutsy Game
     Activity 1.  Part 1B.  Sweet Break!
     Activity 2.  How do Enzymes affect Digestion?
     Activity 3.  How does pH affects enzymes activity?
     Activity 4.  A journey into the Digestive System?
     
Module 4. NUTRITION AND WELLNESS
     Activity 1.  Am I Eating Right?
     Activity 2.  What happens when nutritional needs are not adequately met?
     Activity 3.  Using essential concepts in nutrition to planning a menu
     
Module 5.  CELLULAR REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS
     Activity 1.  Observing Mitosis
     Activity 2.  Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
     Activity 3.  Tossing Coins and Probability
     Activity 4.  Comparing Genotypic and Phenotypic Ratios for a Typical Mendelian Trait
     Activity 5.  Filling up the Punnett Square for a Dihybrid Cross
     Activity 6.  Phenotypes and Genotypes in Incomplete Dominance
     Activity 7.  Inferring Genotypes  of ABO Blood Types based on Parental Blood Types