May 18-May 22
Grade 8 Digital Learning Activities
ELA
ELA
May 18 - 22, 2020
Day 1
Title: Personification in The Diary of Anne Frank
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 1 & Day 2
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 1
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 1 & Day 2
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 1
May 18 - 22, 2020
Day 2
Title: Analyzing Anne's Evolution
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 1 & Day 2
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 2
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 1 & Day 2
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 2
May 18 - 22, 2020
Day 3
Title: Gathering Evidence: Focus on Miep Gies
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 3
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 3
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 3
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 3
May 18 - 22, 2020
Day 4
Title: Developing an Argumentative Essay
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 4 & Day 5
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 4
Planning & Prewriting Document: Use this document to plan your argumentative essay.Planning & Prewriting for Argumentative Essay
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 4 & Day 5
Instructions: Open the activity in Google Slides to see the directions for today. All directions and translations can be found on slide 2.
Link to Interactive Google Slides: Week of 5/18 - 8th ELA Interactive Slides Day 4
Planning & Prewriting Document: Use this document to plan your argumentative essay.Planning & Prewriting for Argumentative Essay
May 18 - 22, 2020
Day 5
Title: Writing an Argumentative Essay
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 4 & Day 5
Instructions: Use the Writing an Argumentative Essay document to complete your essay.
Argumentative Essay Document: Writing an Argumentative Essay
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers, review this cover sheet to prepare for this activity.Teacher Cover Sheet Day 4 & Day 5
Instructions: Use the Writing an Argumentative Essay document to complete your essay.
Argumentative Essay Document: Writing an Argumentative Essay
Newcomers/ELD
Newcomers/ELD
Week of May 18 - 22, 2020
Title: How has water influenced the health and growth of a city? Drink up! The history of drinking water in Philadelphia
Teacher Cover Sheet: Week of May 18
Day One
- Instructions: Day 1 will focus on key vocabulary and the history of clean water.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: Google Slides
Day Two
- Instructions: Day 2 will focus on precipitation and the history of drinking water in Philadelphia.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: Google Slides
Day Three
- Instructions: Day 3 will focus on how the population of Philadelphia changed its history of drinking water.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: Google Slides
Day Four
- Instructions: Day 4 will focus on how pollution in Philadelphia changed its history of drinking water.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: Google Slides
Day Five
- Instructions: Day 5 will focus on typhoid fever and the water filtration plants in Philadelphia. Students will debate are jobs or health more important.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: Google Slides
Math
Math
Week of May 18 - 22, 2020
- Title: Surface Area and Volume
- Teacher Cover Sheets: Review these documents prior to the lesson
- Instructions: Follow the directions on the google slides.
- Link to Interactive Assignment: LINK
Science
Science
Week of May 18 - 22, 2020
Activities
Title: Changes in Ecosystems
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers review this document prior to the lesson.Teacher Cover Sheet for the week
Directions: General Instructions:Go through each slide. Read the information on each slide, and respond to the activities.
Throughout this slideshow, you will see yellow boxes.These yellow boxes indicate something for you to do or complete. Be sure to either type your response or complete the task when you see one of these yellow boxes. Your teacher will be able to see your responses as you work on the assignment.
For more practice with the vocabulary for this unit, access the “Focus on Language” document from your Google Classroom.
If you need more help, click the links in the slideshow that say “Need Help?” or “Sentence Starters.”
Special Instructions
Slide 5: Watch this short video about locusts.
Slide 8: Select the correct answer or answers by writing the correct letter or letters in the yellow box.
Slide 11: Classify each change as “change to a living factor” or “change to a non-living factor” by moving the yellow “x”s into the correct pink box. The first one is done for you.
Slide 14: Choose the correct answer from each pair of yellow bolded terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choices.
Slide 20: Choose the correct answer from each pair of yellow bolded terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choices.
Slide 24: Fill in the Venn diagram by moving the pink statements in to the correct part of the Venn diagram.
Slide 33: For this activity, you will need a pair of dice; if you don’t have them use this simulator: https://www.random.org/dice/
You will also need about 30 popcorn kernels, beads, pennies, or other small objects that will represent the wolves in a population.
Slide 34: In this game, your popcorn kernels (or whatever objects you are using) will represent a population of wolves. You will simulate 15 years in the life of the wolf population by using dice and the game play key on slide 37.
Every roll of the dice will represent 6 months; the number you roll will determine what happens to your wolf population and its ecosystem. Some of the changes to the ecosystem are natural events and some are caused by humans.
As you play the game, complete the Wolf Game Data Table. You can access this document through you Google Classroom The table will record the results of 15 years of data.
Slide 35: Step 1: Place eight popcorn kernels (or whatever objects you are using to represent the wolves) on the table. Two kernels represent adult wolves, the other six represent a litter of pups.
Step 2: Roll the dice to represent the passage of six months. Use the total number on the dice to determine what happens to your pack, according to the game play key on slide 37. Then fill in the information in your data table (linked separately on Google Classroom). As you record data, also record in the Reason column the reason for the population change. Adjust the number of kernels that represent your wolf pack.
Step 3: Repeat Step 4 for the second six months of the year. Count the number of wolves in your pack and fill in the rest of Year 1 in the data table.
Slide 36: Step 4: Reproduction: After Year 1, adjust the number of kernels to add six pups at the beginning of each year unless a food shortage occurred the previous year.
Step 5: Maturation: When the pack gets too large, the mature pups leave. At the end of each year, subtract six wolves if your pack has more than nine wolves. Adjust the number of kernels you have accordingly. Record the pack total in the last column of the table.
Step 6: Repeat Steps 4–7 until you complete 15 years of play or until your pack dies out, whichever comes first.
Slide 44: Type the letter of the correct answer in the yellow box.
Slide 45: Choose the correct answer from each set of bolded yellow terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choice.
Links: Interactive Slide Deck: Changes in EcosystemsWolf Game Table: Wolf Game TableFocus on Language_Writing: Pretend you are a scientist. There has been a major change to the ecosystem where you live.Use the information from the slides to write a diary entry of your observations. What happened to the ecosystem, what changes do you observe and what do you predict might happen?When you are ready go to the next slide and begin your description. Link to: Interactive Slide Deck
Teacher Cover Sheet: Teachers review this document prior to the lesson.Teacher Cover Sheet for the week
Directions: General Instructions:Go through each slide. Read the information on each slide, and respond to the activities.
Throughout this slideshow, you will see yellow boxes.These yellow boxes indicate something for you to do or complete. Be sure to either type your response or complete the task when you see one of these yellow boxes. Your teacher will be able to see your responses as you work on the assignment.
For more practice with the vocabulary for this unit, access the “Focus on Language” document from your Google Classroom.
If you need more help, click the links in the slideshow that say “Need Help?” or “Sentence Starters.”
Special Instructions
Slide 5: Watch this short video about locusts.
Slide 8: Select the correct answer or answers by writing the correct letter or letters in the yellow box.
Slide 11: Classify each change as “change to a living factor” or “change to a non-living factor” by moving the yellow “x”s into the correct pink box. The first one is done for you.
Slide 14: Choose the correct answer from each pair of yellow bolded terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choices.
Slide 20: Choose the correct answer from each pair of yellow bolded terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choices.
Slide 24: Fill in the Venn diagram by moving the pink statements in to the correct part of the Venn diagram.
Slide 33: For this activity, you will need a pair of dice; if you don’t have them use this simulator: https://www.random.org/dice/
You will also need about 30 popcorn kernels, beads, pennies, or other small objects that will represent the wolves in a population.
Slide 34: In this game, your popcorn kernels (or whatever objects you are using) will represent a population of wolves. You will simulate 15 years in the life of the wolf population by using dice and the game play key on slide 37.
Every roll of the dice will represent 6 months; the number you roll will determine what happens to your wolf population and its ecosystem. Some of the changes to the ecosystem are natural events and some are caused by humans.
As you play the game, complete the Wolf Game Data Table. You can access this document through you Google Classroom The table will record the results of 15 years of data.
Slide 35: Step 1: Place eight popcorn kernels (or whatever objects you are using to represent the wolves) on the table. Two kernels represent adult wolves, the other six represent a litter of pups.
Step 2: Roll the dice to represent the passage of six months. Use the total number on the dice to determine what happens to your pack, according to the game play key on slide 37. Then fill in the information in your data table (linked separately on Google Classroom). As you record data, also record in the Reason column the reason for the population change. Adjust the number of kernels that represent your wolf pack.
Step 3: Repeat Step 4 for the second six months of the year. Count the number of wolves in your pack and fill in the rest of Year 1 in the data table.
Slide 36: Step 4: Reproduction: After Year 1, adjust the number of kernels to add six pups at the beginning of each year unless a food shortage occurred the previous year.
Step 5: Maturation: When the pack gets too large, the mature pups leave. At the end of each year, subtract six wolves if your pack has more than nine wolves. Adjust the number of kernels you have accordingly. Record the pack total in the last column of the table.
Step 6: Repeat Steps 4–7 until you complete 15 years of play or until your pack dies out, whichever comes first.
Slide 44: Type the letter of the correct answer in the yellow box.
Slide 45: Choose the correct answer from each set of bolded yellow terms by moving the pink circles over the correct choice.
Links: Interactive Slide Deck: Changes in EcosystemsWolf Game Table: Wolf Game TableFocus on Language_Writing: Pretend you are a scientist. There has been a major change to the ecosystem where you live.Use the information from the slides to write a diary entry of your observations. What happened to the ecosystem, what changes do you observe and what do you predict might happen?When you are ready go to the next slide and begin your description. Link to: Interactive Slide Deck
Social Studies
Social Studies
Activities 1-2
Title: Morality and Slavery
Teacher Cover Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1r32xxuBc8vCepQAjblzUeJuRquKMmhi8tQxfU8X_g/copy
Instructions:
Resources:
Teacher Cover Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1r32xxuBc8vCepQAjblzUeJuRquKMmhi8tQxfU8X_g/copy
Instructions:
- Navigate the Google Slide deck, following all directions and completing all activities
- Complete Antislavery Letter in Response George McDuffie's Speech activity
Resources:
- Google Slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pNOXyepJoqv9ggoQXWX4XSVhhypVXpTcAOW5HmoFec0/copy
- Antislavery Letter in Response George McDuffie's Speech activity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZgoKVzIIhurz0X3kId0R7jOUwNmBrib17Sf8KNYoEe8/copy
Activities 3-5
Title: Resistance to Slavery
Teacher Cover Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBOzfEGSw_xZS-E7GRlbMtGELhMjB2M7Kw9J3Vd8K0U/copy
Instructions:
Resources:
Teacher Cover Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBOzfEGSw_xZS-E7GRlbMtGELhMjB2M7Kw9J3Vd8K0U/copy
Instructions:
- Navigate the Google Slide deck, following all directions and completing all activities
Resources: