Grade 8 Science - WATER SYSTEMS

FLOOD RECIPIES are due Tuesday, June 6th in class.  The assignment is available here.  It is our last assignment for marks in science this year before our exam!!  Make sure you hand it in on time.



We had a field trip to Fort Whyte on Thursday and Friday, May 19th, and 20th.  We learned about: ground water, marshes, swamps, duck weed, flooding, pollution, fresh water, salt water and watersheds.

We are demonstrating our knowledge about the Hydrologic (water) cycle using Voicethreads.  Be prepared for a possible final exam question on it and where pollution can occur in it!

The picture we can use is here!

The vocabulary is:

evaporation          condensation       run-off         transpiration          precipitation        infiltration (percolation)

absorption     aquifer (groundwater)          surface water (oceans, lakes, rivers, puddles)


If you have submitted your VOICE THREADS or SMARTBOARD recorded file explaining the water cycle to Mrs. Snyder here,

Try this water webquest first!!!!

Then you can log into Discovery Education to check out what you know about water by watching some videos!  Check out the student TAB to see the videos assigned.