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Interesting Websites

These websites may be used for your article analysis

USA Today                     www.usatoday.com

New York Times             www.nytimes.com

ABC                                   http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/

CBS                                          www.cbsnews.com

Fox News                                  www.foxnews.com

CNN                                         http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/

MSNBC                                    http://www.msnbc.msn.com

NASA                                      http://science.nasa.gov/

CNN Student News                   http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

Science News for Kids               http://sciencenewsforkids.org/

Scientific America                    http://www.sciam.com/

Discover Magazine                    http://discovermagazine.com/

Popular Science                         http://www.popsci.com/popsci/

Discovery Channel                     http://dsc.discovery.com/

Animal Planet           http://animal.discovery.com/news/news.html

Nature                          http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Natural History                      http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/

Science Magazine                      http://www.sciencemag.org/

Science News                            http://www.sciencenews.org/

  Use these web sites to help find current news articles.  Print them out and attach with your article analysis assignment.  Use these web sites to help with writing background information for lab reports.

 

 

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8th Grade Review Questions

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Write these questions in your journal and answer using complete sentences

 

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Article Analysis

A link to the Practice Sheet is available below the table of due dates and topics.


Check Back Soon for Due Dates

Articles are due the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month (unless noted).

·    Articles must be current – not older than 2 months.

·    You may use newspapers, magazines or links on the attached page.

·        To receive full credit you must turn in a typed summary from your practice page.  First paragraph is answering the 5 W’s.  The 2nd paragraph is your opinion paragraph.  Your vocabulary words, pronunciations, parts of speech and definition are to be included on this page.  All of your article information must be written at the top of the summary page.

Attached to the typed summary must also be your practice page completely filled out and a copy of your article.

I have included the due dates and subjects for the rest of the year.

 

Topic

Due Date

1.

My Choice (Science Related)

 

2.

Your Choice (Science Related)

 

3.

Scientists, Researchers, Inventors

 

4.

Weather, Atmosphere

 

5.

Technology

 

6.

Space, Stars, Planets

 

7.

Plants, Food, Medicine

 

8.

Health, Disease and Research

 

9.

Chemistry, Chemicals, Pesticides, Everyday use

 

10.

Paleontology, Fossils

 

11.

Computers, Internet, Software, Games

 

12.

Animals, Food, Research

 

13.

Marine Science, Ocean Life

 

14.

Geology, Earth Sciences

 

15.

Archeology

 

16.

Your choice (science related)

 

Click on the link here to print out a copy of the practice sheet.  This sheet needs to be completely filled out and attached to your article and summary sheet.  Article Analysis Practice Sheet

 

 
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Fido's Puzzle

How to write a conclusion

1.

1.Remeber to not use "I", "we", "our", "they" - this is a technical writing.

2. This should be in paragraph form

3. State your detailed procedure (step-by-step).  Remember your audience is someone that has no idea how or what the activity was

4. Discuss your hypothesis - was it supported or was it disputed by your data and why do you think it was?

5. Discuss if there were any discrepancies or problems during the activity - why do think these happened?  How did you solve the problems?

6. What would you do differently next time?

 

5.

 

                                 

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