9th Grade Noun Clauses Test

Guys, study the following terms:
Noun clauses and Noun phrases (12.1)
Quoted speech and reported speech (12.6-12.7)
Meaning of the -EVER words (12.9)

The exercises in the test will be similar to the following ones:
Ex. 2, p. 241 [TXT]
Ex. 17, p. 252 [TXT]
Ex. 21, p. 254-255 [TXT]
Ex. 37, p. 265-266 [TXT]

10th Grade Essay ResearchWebsites

Here you go guys:

http://www.allacademic.com/index.php
Here, use the quick search option and look for 'keywords.' Some of the articles will not be available, so you'll only be able to use the ones with the green PDF link. This website has academic journals with good and valid research.

http://findarticles.com/
Here, use the search option at the top and look in 'free articles only.' It's a good source for news and magazine articles.

http://www.worldpress.org/
Use the search option at the right. Here you can search for newspaper articles from around the world. 

Good luck!

9th Grade Passive Voice Test #2

Guys, make sure you study the folowing terms:
- Stative Passive
- How to use GET in a verb phrase
- Participial Adjectives

Also, look over the following exercises from your textbook:
- Ex. 18, p. 226
- Ex. 22, p. 230-231
- Ex. 24, p. 233-234
- Ex. 26, p. 235 & Ex. 28, p. 236-237.

Discovery:The Ultimate Guide - Extreme Weather [7th Grade Science]

Here you go, guys. Just hit play and watch all of the parts!

7th Grade Sciene Review

Guys, by now you should have studied pretty much everything except for these three questions:

1) How is dew created?
Dew is formed as air gets saturated quickly because its temperature goes down. As warm air gets colder at night, or early in the morning, the water vapor in it will go from being a gas to a liquid, sticking itself to the closest object available.

2) How does the sun create wind?
The sun creates wind because it heats up air molecules, which makes them move around faster. As this happens, they clash with cold air molecules, creating wind.

3)Explain why the polar regions reflect sun light/heat more than a jungle.
Simply put, because of their color. Polar regions are covered in white snow, whereas other parts of the world, like for example a jungle, are darker colored. Dark colors absorb light and heat, whereas lighter colors reflect it. Because of this, anytime sunlight hits snow, it's reflected, but when it hits a jungle, it's absorbed.

8th Grade Science Review

Guys, here's some help for the ESSAY questions.

1) Why is it good for ice to float?

If ice didn't float, it would sink. If that were to happen, ice would slowly get thicker and thicker until we'd have no drinking water left. [you have a little drawing in your notebooks about this too]

2) History of the 1st law of thermodynamics + examples.

Names and dates aren't exactly necessary for this one, but it's important that you understand HOW it happened. At first, scientists believed heat was a substance, but after a few years of experimenting and research, they realized that heat is interchangeable. This led to the realization that all energy in the universe is constant and interchangeable. Mechanical energy can produce heat energy, chemical energy can produce mechanical energy, etc. With this in mind, you need to be able to look around a room and find at least 2 examples of this law in action.

3) The 2nd law of thermodynamics:

"Everything goes from order to disorder." This means that, if left alone, things will always become less organized. With this in mind, the students should be able to describe what a place would look like after being left alone for centuries.

4) How refrigerators work:

You drew this on their notebooks with an explanation. You should know this one from that. But basically, as the refrigerant goes from a thin, high-pressure tube [found in the back of the fridge] to a wide, low-pressure tube [inside the fridge], it will transform into a gas, and as that occurs, it will create a cooling effect inside the fridge because that transformation will absorb any heat that may be inside the fridge. 

5) How birds' bodies are designed for flight:

In class we looked at the bodies of birds and talked about how every system works to create enough energy for flight. For this question, you should be able to look at your notes and get a good idea about what to write. Think about how the digestive system, the skeletal system, the muscular system, etc. help the bird fly. You should be able to come up with a good answer.

The Kakapo [8A]

Here it is, guys! The kakapo in all its glory. Enjoy!
To watch the video, you'll need to press the RED play button once, and then press it again when it turns GREEN.
I would recommend you to let the video load for a few minutes [wait for the gray bar to fill up as much as possible, if not completely] so that it's not too choppy when you try to watch it. We stopped watching at around the 35th min. mark.




If the video doesn't work for you, use this link to watch it: 
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=OQRJLS3O