Year 8 computer lesson

I presume everyone saw the lunar eclipse on Saturday night - magnificent huh!

Anyway in todays lesson you will be doing a multiple choice quiz online to help you to revise for the end of unit test.

Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond my control, the test cannot be held on Thursday (you'll see why) but, will have to be held first lesson next week for each class, i.e. Monday 8C and Tuesday 8P.

This does mean that this week will be rather dull revision I'm afraid but this is beyond my control.

In todays lesson you will take an online quiz using a site called quizstar

I have written the test by looking at the chapter you have just studied, but not the test paper, as this would influence the questions I write. The questions I present here give a broad idea of the type of information you need to know, but I can't say if it has any resemblance to how the final test will look.

You will have 2 goes to complete the test and a maximum of 20 minutes each time.

Initially, I want you to do it with no book to see what you get.

At the end of the test, the computer will work out your grade straight away and you will be told what you got.

After your result comes back, you may do it again one time with your book open.

In each case you must not talk to anyone about it, as this is under test conditions to help you to practice.

Because this is under test conditions usual test rules apply. These include:

No talking
No using msn or email to communicate. If anyone is caught with any other windows open during the session they will be taken off the computer immediately no argument heard and will not be allowed to take the practice test.

You have been warned.

At the end of the test when you finish you need to go to the Science Heaven Forum Year 9 Page

On there, I want you to write a limerick about ANYTHING YOU HAVE STUDIED SO FAR.

Limericks are 5 line verses where the first and second line rhyme with the fifth line and the second and third line rhyme with each other.

An example of a limerick would be

There was a young man from Dealing
Who caught the bus for Ealing.
It said on the door
Don't spit on the floor
So he jumped up and spat on the ceiling

or

A mosquito was heard to complain,
'A chemist has poisoned my brain!'
The cause of his sorrow
was paradichloro-
triphenyldichloroethane.

or

The soil had so much uranium
It killed my prize geranium.
It would have won shows
But now it just glows
Enough to light up a stadium

You may have noticed, that limericks have a certain pattern to them that looks a bit like this

d'DAH-dah d'DAH-dah d'DAH (dah)
d'DAH-dah d'DAH-dah d'DAH (dah)
d'DAH-dah d'DAH
d'DAH-dah d'DAH
d'DAH-dah d'DAH-dah d'DAH

So I'd like to see at least one limerick from everyone by the end of the session. You will need to join the forum before you can post, and the link to join is up the top of the forum somewhere.

I shouldn't see any other windows open other than this one www.scienceheaven.com, quizstar, and the forum

Enjoy!