Welcome 8th Grade’s Unit 1 Virtual Exhibit Night!

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GEORGIA GEOGRAPHY PROJECTS

Students created resources for tourists coming to Georgia’s 5 Geographic Regions highlighting each regions’ importance to the state.

NATIVE AMERICAN EVOLUTION

After students learned about the evolution of Native Americans from over 12,000 years ago with the Paleo people to the more modern Mississippian people, they were asked to explain a few ways in which Native Americans evolved over the thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the Americas.

GEORGIA COLONY: FROM TRUSTEE TO ROYAL

After learning about the strict rules of the Georgia Trustee colony and the changes under the Royal colony after the first 20 years, students were asked to highlight the most important change (in their opinions).

EXPLORING IDENTITY THROUGH NARRATIVE

This quarter in Language Arts students studied to both narrative reading and narrative writing. They analyzed the following short stories “Thank You, Ma’am” and “One Friday Morning” by Langston Hughes, “Eleven” and “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra’ Cisneros and “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” but Walter Dean Myers. After reading the short stories, they incorporated literary elements, narrative techniques, and figurative language in their own pieces of writing. On display for exhibit night our lines from students sensory details paragraph. Notice how these lines came alive with the discretions they have written.

ATOMIC MODEL PROJECTS: PURE SUBSTANCES VS. MIXTURES

This quarter students learned about matter and the subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules that combine to make it. Students also learned to understand that matter can be classified into pure substances like elements and compounds, and mixtures. View projects.

QUANTITIES IN THE MARKETPLACE

You will see the variety of tasks referenced play out in students’ culminating unit project for which they had to address a yogurt company’s dilemma of being out-sold by competitors due to the dietary content of
their product. They worked to identify whether they could manipulate their existing product in a way that would allow for it to become more competitive, only to discover they had to consider producing a totally new product and identify the impact this might have on the company. Students then presented their findings in a company meeting recorded for your viewing pleasure.

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