Whew!
I’ve just completed grading your exams.
They will not be posted on MyGradeBook.com, however (because it messes up the math there).
So, you can come by and see your score or send me an email/IM and I’ll let you know your grades.
Here are four short podcasts ( < 2 mins each ) on the four types of questions you’ll have on your exam tomorrow starring myself and Mary Hudson (I don’t think she’s a fan of Type 2 questions based on her performance).
Hopefully, these will clear up any last minute questions you might have about the types of things you’ll be asked tomorrow on the exam. If not, get in touch with me!
Exam Question Type 1 (Current Events):
Exam Question Type 2 (Big Picture):
Exam Question Type 3 (Problems):
Exam Questions Type 4 (DIY):
Happy studying!
Our exam is Monday morning.
Here are three things I’d look over this weekend:
2) Daily Notes (Where you can find most of the note sheets or presentation lessons we covered this semester).
3) Quizzes and Tests (I post up our main quizzes and tests, so go back and look over anything you might have needed extra practice learning).
Later today I’ll be posting up four podcasts reviewing the four question types that we’ll have on the exam.
If you need anything or are unclear about a topic, feel free to contact me (my phone number, email addy, Skype and IM are there)!
Otherwise, have a great weekend and stay warm!
On our exam next Monday you’ll get four exam questions and a “blue book.” You’ll get one question from each of the four types below.
You pick three and then provide excellent answers.
Easy, right?
I expect all A’s based on how well you’ve done on our exam reviews this week!
Mr. Harrleson,
I just voted for your Blog! How cool! It is an honor to have your class blog representing SDS Griffins.
I also read your test question format… sounds almost like fun… Is it possible that taking an exam could be both stressful and fun at the same time? I like how you are asking the students to take the content and apply it in a relevant way.
You are facilitating positive learning experineces for your students. Keep up the good work!
MK Deese
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riley- SUCK UP!! jk but i voted like five times for you to win
Five years ago, something quite scientifically interesting happened.
We survived a deadly gamma ray burst. Remember our discussions of gamma rays and how they are a high frequency, high energy radiation far on one end of the electromagnetic spectrum (yes, that will help you on the exam)?
Fascinating:
December 27, 2004: The Day Earth Survived the Greatest Stellar Attack -Ever: “For a brief instant, a couple of tenths of a second, on December 27, 2004 an invisible burst of energy the equivalent of half a million years of sunlight shone on Earth. Many orbiting satellites electronics were zapped and the Earth’s upper atmosphere was amazingly ionized from a massive hit of gamma ray energy.”
Fantastic. Go read the rest of the article to see what else happened.
Yay science!
To recap…
You’ll have 4 exam questions and are required to do 3.
Each of the four questions will have a certain type…
…and…
1 question type will be unveiled tomorrow 
Stay tuned and study up!
Exams start Friday!!
Head over to MyGradeBook and check out your Journal Article grade.
Remember, it is 20% of your exam.
If you do not “remember” your password, please get a better organizational system together and see me immediately.
If you have not gotten that assignment to me yet (gulp), please see me immediately.
Here’s our study guide for the exam…
It’s a Google Shared Doc, so you can add or edit as you see fit.
If you delete or change something, please make sure to use consideration!
(And no, it is not anonymous).
Your participation counts for 5% of your exam grade!
The final time to make any additions that count towards your participation grade is Friday at midnight.
Thanks to everyone for emailing in your answers to Quiz 8. For those of you who sent them in last night, I did receive them!
I’ll have your grades posted on MyGradeBook.com sometime this evening after I’m done grading (and after the big Asheville Holiday Parade today!)…
Quiz 8: Density, Energy, and Gases
Physical Science 8
November 20, 2009
Mr. Harrelson
It is the year 2024.
You are 28 years old.
You have just finished your doctoral thesis on high energy physics at M.I.T. and have accepted a position at Stanford University where you’ll be teaching graduate level physics and continuing your research on Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Mr. Harrelson is 47 and has been called upon by NASA to travel to the moon for an expedition to search for boron and squirrellium. He must leave the Fall semester early to begin his arduous training. However, he still has Fall exams to give to his students at Spartanburg Day School.
So, Mr. Harrelson gives you a video call and asks you to come give his Fall Exam at Spartanburg Day School to a group of 8th graders…
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You’re assignment for this quiz is to compile the information you’ve gathered these past 10 days on volume, density, the types of energy and gas laws and come up with two possible exam questions (and their possible answers). You must turn this in at the end of the class session today.
Your grade will be determined on how well I can discover what you’ve learned from our studies of this material.
Melissa Church is discussing. 
Elizabeth H. is Amazing:), 
HAPPY studying? Haha.