 | June 7th-9th -
Final Review/Test. |
| June 3rd and 4th-
Activity
96 Forkbird activity. |
| May 28th through June 2nd -
Act. 95 and analysis 1-4. |
| May 26th and 27th -
Evolution Essay. 2 page essay stating what your beliefs are on
evolution and why you believe it...talk to you parents, pastors,
science teachers - anyone you would like to talk to about the
topic... |
| May 25th -
Act. 94 acting and analysis 1, 3. |
| May 24th -
Act. 91 Analysis 2,3,4B.
|
| May 21st - Act 91 - looking at fossilized footprints and trying
to infer what was happening when they were made. Discuss the
differences between observations and inferences. |
| May 20th - MSP Testing periods 1-3. |
| May 18th and 19th - MSP Testing for periods 1-3. Afternoon
classes will watch a video on prehistoric life on Tuesday...on
Wednesday students will try to recreate a drawing of a creature
based on fossil evidence. |
| May 17th -
Act 90 Analysis 1-4. |
| May 14th - Correct
activity 89 and examine real fossils...make a
sketch and make observations about each. |
| May 13th - MSP testing in the morning - afternoon
classes will have a debate about the reintroduction of the mammoth
into the wild. |
| May 12th - Discuss
Act 89.Do analysis questions 1, 3b, and write
a short essay stating what extinct specie you would like to see
brought back...list the pros and cons to bringing it back.... |
| May 11th - Read and discuss
Act 89. Take Cornell Notes on
the article (15 notes, 5 questions and a summary)
Click here for audio of the
lesson. |
| May 7th and 10th - Ecology Test |
| May 6th - Ecology Game |
| May 3rd and 5th - Ecology Review (WSU trip will be on the 4th).
We will correct the review on the 5th.
Click here
to see the answer key for the review. |
| April 30th - Bill Nye |
| April 28th and 29th - Add the words limiting factor,
competitiion, and adaptations to our CCD's. Work on making a
small ratlike creature that has adaptations to live on the island
that you are given. You need to have a drawing of of the
creature that you create on the island. The picture needs to
be detailed, colored, and have the adaptations of your creature
labeled. |
| April 27th - RAIN!! We can't go outside today so we will
work on the
Deer
Predation/Starvation worksheet and graph. |
| April 26th - Correct
Act 85 and go to Pioneer Park. Make
a list of the predators, prey, producers, consumers, scavengers, and
decomposers that we find.. Click here for audio of the lesson (Part
1, Part 2). |
| April 23rd - If you have no missing assignments you will watch a
Planet Earth video on Deserts, if you do have missing assignments
you will work on your missing work. |
| April 22nd - Bill Nye CPS quiz.
Activity 85
Discuss carrying capacity and link to
our story. Stopping to Think 1-3.
Audio part 1,
Audio part 2 |
| April 21st - Correct worksheets and watch Bill Nye Populations
video. |
| April 20th - "Energy Flow" (page
1,
page 2) and "Living things and the
Environment" (page
1,
page 2) worksheets. |
| April 16th - 19th- Watch Easter Island video and discuss how
what happened on Easter Island relates to fluctuating Zebra Mussel
populations. Then we will write a short story about the
dangers of overpopulating and not conserving our natural resources.
On Friday we will watch a brief video on Easter Island (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfbQA-Krx9Q ) and then outline
the story. The story will be two pages in length plus an
illustration. The title of the story will be "The Island" and
the focus will be conserving natural resources and the consequences
if we do not. On Monday we will write the story and create the
illustration. The story will be due Tuesday at the beginning
of class. Some classes will discuss
the Story of Stuff. |
| April 15th - Asian Carp video (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFe8xfgx24&NR=1 ) |
| April 14th - Finish assembling skeleton from owl pellet. |
| April 12th - Finish putting producer, consumer, autotroph and heterotroph
into our Content Dictionaries and add ecosystem and ecology.
Write a story about one of the critters that you found in your owl
pellet...include the words: energy, producer, consumer, autotroph,
heterotroph, predator, prey, ecosystem, energy pyramid, ecology.
Each of these words should be underlined in your story. |
| April 9th and 13th - Dissecting owl pellets and trying to
determine the number of animals consumed as well as assembling a
skeleton. |
| April 8th - Correct Cornell notes and ecology pyramid questions. Making a food web for Walla Walla. |
| April 7th -
Making the
ecology pyramid. |
| April 6th - Adding producer, consumer, autotroph and heterotroph
to our Content Dictionaries. Discussing the flow of energy
using food chains, food webs, and the energy pyramid.
Click here for an audio
clip of the class. |
| March 26th and April 5th - Your choice...you can choose from the
following assignments using one of the introduced species from
Activity 73 as the character/topic: an autobiography, a detailed
illustration or painting, a
newspaper/magazine article with an illustration, a video, or a children's
book/or a fable. We will finish this activity when we come
back from Spring Break...however if you would like to put in some
extra time over break and complete a 2nd assignment you can earn
extra credit!
Click here for an audio clip of the directions. |
| March 25th - Act 77 analysis 5-7.
Correcting in class
audio clip.
Quarter grades will be submitted so make sure that you check online
grades and have all of your missing work in. |
| March 24th - Act. 77 graphing the first two data tables and
answering analysis questions 1-2. |
| March 23rd - Take notes on Planet Earth "Mountains" video. |
| March 22nd - Add classification and taxonomy to your CCD.
Act. 76 - putting strange creatures into categories and giving
supporting evidence for their classification. |
| March 19th -
Discussion of Carolus Linnaeus and taxonomy. Make an encyclopedia entry for the blackworm. Include a
detailed drawing, and information about how it eats, survives,
moves, where it lives, its size etc. |
| March 18th - Act. 74 observing blackworms. Make at least
10 detailed observations. |
| March 17th - Act. 75 Looking at how organisms are
classified. Create a visual illustration explaining the
information. |
| March 15th and 16th- Introduction to introduced species
complete chart on introduced species with at least 4 different
organisms. |
| March 12th - Write summaries for Cornell notes. Discuss
what makes good notes and good questions. Answer analysis
questions 4-7. |
| March 11th - Cornell Notes on
Act.
72. You must have at least 10 notes and 5 questions to
earn an A. |
| March 10th - Visit Life Skills room. |
| March 8th-9th - Review and Test |
| February 22-26th -
Genetic disorder research using
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/whataregd/index.html
and other websites. If you finish early check this website out
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/
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| February 19th - Activity 65 Critter Breeding. |
| February 18th - Watch a video about twins separated at birth and
discuss what "nature vs. nurture" means. |
| February 17th - Act. 63 Stopping To Think Q's and acting out
cell division. |
| February 16th - Look at onion root tip and draw chromosomes
separating. Watch short genetics video. |
| February 10th - Correct Punnett Square Problems and look at the
results of growing our plants. Act. 62 analysis 1,5 and graph
class results. |
| February 9th -
Punnett Square problems. |
| February 8th - Activity 60 Analysis 1-3. Gregor Mendel
video clip. |
| February 4th and 5th - Finish "alleles", "homozygous/purebred",
"heterozygous/hybrid", "genotype", and "phenotype" in our CCDs.
Make children packet (drawings and questions). |
| February 3rd - Correct Act. 59 and turn in comp books. Bill Nye Genetics movie with CPS clicker quiz.
|
| February 2nd -
Act 59 analysis
|
| February 1st - Act. 59 coin flipping. Add "alleles",
"homozygous/purebred", "heterozygous/hybrid", "genotype", and
"phenotype" to our CCD's. |
| January 29th - Finish Act. 58. Finish "dominant" and
"recessive" in CCD. Watch a quick genetics video. |
| January 28th - Add "dominant" and "recessive" to CCD.
Stopping to Think Questions 1-3 for activity 58. Write in
our interactive journals. |
| January 27th - Cloning debate. |
| January 26th - Finish "asexual reproduction" and "sexual
reproduction" in the CCD. Finish writing persuasive essays. |
| January 25th - Finish researching with the laptops and begin
writing persuasive essay on the ethics of cloning. |
| January 22nd - Research cloning using the laptops. |
| January 21st - Act. 57 Stopping to Think 1-4. Discussion of cloning
ethics. |
| January 20th - We will watch a short video on Marfan Syndrome
and briefly discuss genetic disorders. |
| January 19th - We will plant our seeds, correct Act. 54 analysis
questions and finish the words "inherited" and "genes" as well as
add "sexual reproduction" and "asexual reproduction" tou our
CCD. |
| January 15th - Complete analysis 1-3 for activity 54. Add
inherited and genes to the CCD. |
| January 14th - Act. 54 taking measurements on different
characteristics from the other students. |
| January 13th - New T-chart for our next unit on genetics.
We will also add characteristic and trait to our CCD. |
| January 12th - Wrap up Microlife, correct our CCD's and look at
the what we know/questions we have T-chart. Start the CCD's
and T-charts for our next unit. |
| January 6th - January 11 - http://medmyst.rice.edu/
|
| January 4th - January 6 - Presentations |
| December 19th through January 3rd -
CHRISTMAS
BREAK!! |
| December 17th/18th - Present PowerPoints and Party. |
| December 14th through the 17th - Disease PowerPoint. |
| December 11th - MicroLife Unit Test us CPS clickers. |
| December 9th and 10th -
Review for MicroLife unit test. |
| December 7th and 8th - Maracando Fever game |
| December 4th - Activity 52 analysis 1-5. |
| December 2nd and 3rd - Activity 51. Record observations
during the game and then make a graph of the results and complete
analysis questions 1,3,4,6 |
| December 1st - Look at the bacteria that we grew before break.
Make a detailed and colored drawing of our petri dishes.
Complete analysis questions 1-3. |
| November 30th - Activity 50: Watch video on the discovery
of Penicillin and complete video notes. |
| November 19th - 20th - Activity 49 analysis 1,3,4 |
| November 18th - Start activity 47. We will swab an area
and streak our petri dishes. We will add a square of
antibacterial material to see how works. Make data tables to
record results. |
| November 12th - 17th - Act. 48 Hand washing lab. Students
should have a complete lab writeup including a data table, bar graph
and a 3/4 page conclusion. |
| November 11th - Veteran's Day |
| November 10th - Act 46...which blood types are compatible? |
| November 9th - Intro. Act 46 and look at human blood under the
microscope - draw it under medium or high power. |
| November 6th - Planet Earth Video. |
| November 5th - Mid-unit test. |
| November 4th - Review game |
| November 3rd - Correct the Kingdoms Chart.
Review for
quiz. |
| November 2nd -
Act 45. Fill out the
five kingdoms chart. |
| October 30th - The different Kingdoms. Act 44 |
| October 28th-29th - Act 43 Paramecium, bacteria and Trypanosoma
drawings. Analysis #5. |
| October 27th - Finding leaves and making drawings of their
cells. |
| October 26th - Activity 42 Stopping to Think and Analysis
questions. |
| October 23rd - Students who are all caught up will watch a
Planet Earth video, while other students will work on missing work. |
| October 22nd - Activity 41 and analysis 1-4. |
| October 20th and 21st - Do Act 40 and Analysis 1,3-5. |
| October 19th - Correct Act 39. Finish "Germ Theory of
Disease, Cellular Respiration, and Photosynthesis" in the CCD.
We will look at an input
chart about cellular respiration and photosynthesis. Make
a cell
drawing. |
| October 16th -
Act 39
Analysis 1-3. |
| October 15th - Photosynthesis and Respiration worksheets. |
| October 14th - Bill Nye "Cells" video |
| October 13th - Finish "Germ Theory of Disease, Cellular
Respiration, and Photosynthesis" in the CCD. We will look at
an input
chart about cellular respiration and photosynthesis. |
| October 12th -
Make a Venn
Diagram and do analysis 2,4 for Activity 38. Add "Germ
Theory of Disease, Cellular Respiration, and Photosynthesis" to the
CCD. |
| October 8th and 9th - Activity 38 Looking at Amoebas, onion and
cheek cells. |
| October 7th - Bill Nye on germs. Students fill out note
sheet. |
| October 6th - Perform role plays and complete the Germ
theory of disease scientist timeline worksheet. |
| October 2nd and 5th- We will continue our role plays from
Activity 37. |
| October 1st - We will choose our scientists that we are going to
study and begin our role plays from
Activity 37. |
| September 30th- If its nice enough we will go to Pioneer
Park to collect water samples and microbe specimens. We will
observe them under the microscope and make a detailed drawing at
medium power. We will add "germ theory of disease" to our CCD. |
| September 29th - Microscope quiz!!
Draw the letter "e".... |
| September 28th - Microscope lab...discussion of how to use a
microscope and determine the magnification. |
| September 25th - Detailed drawing of a
microscope with all parts
labeled. Quiz on Monday. |
| September 24th - We will finish the word vector in our CCD and read about Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
and answer
analysis questions 1-4 about it in Activity 34. |
| September 23rd - Correct Activity 32 Analysis 1,2,4, Activity 33
Analysis 1-4, and microscope drawings. |
| September 22nd - Activity 33 Analysis 1-4. |
| September 21st - How to handle microscopes and to make an
accurate drawing when looking at an object through a microscope. |
| September 17th - We will finish and correct
Activity 32. We will review the input chart about diseases
and then watch a short video about the Bubonic Plague and then
answer
analysis questions 1-4. Homework will be interviewing
parents (grandparents if possible) about diseases that they
encountered when they were younger. |
| September 15th -16th - We will do
Activity 32
and answer
Analysis questions 1,2,4. We will go over an
input chart
about infectious diseases. We will finish the words carrier
and epidemiologist and add the words quarantine
and vector to the CCD.
|
| September 14th - We will finish the word "infectious" in the
CCD
and will add the words carrier and epidemiologist. I will give an overview of
what a carrier is using an input chart. We will correct
Activity 30.
|
| September 11th - We will finish
Activity 30 and do
analysis
questions 1-3. |
| September 10th - We will start on
Activity 30. We will learn how to make a
CCD (cognitive
content dictionary) and work on the word infectious. |
| September 9th - Review group norms and talk about Suzie's heart.
Make a T-chart about "what we know/Questions we have" regarding the
topics covered on the pictures (disease). |
| September 8th - Begin "Interactive Journals" writing about who
you are. Take a short quiz on the parts of an experiment.
Walk around the classroom looking at the pictures that are up.
Make comments on the papers attached to each paper. |
| September 7th - You're even crazier than the people who showed
up on Friday because today is Labor Day and there is no school... |
| September 4th - You're crazy if you show up today because there
is no school. |
| September 3rd - Finish and correct gum lab. |
| September 2nd - Finish conclusions and write a conclusion as a
class by making a "pocket chart" on the computer. |
| September 1st - Blow bubbles and record measurements. Make
a graph and start your conclusion. |
| August 31st - Continue writing the Gum lab. Write a
detailed procedure, list of materials and identify all of the
variables (controlled, manipulated and responding). Also make
a data table to hold all of your results. If finished in time
you may start measuring bubbles. |
| August 28th - Review using Learning Log: Steps of an
experiment. Write procedures on how to make a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich with opposing team making a sandwich that you
eat. Write question and hypothesis for bubble gum lab. |
| August 26th - 28th - Look at how to set up an experiment. Start
designing the bubble gum experiment. |
| August 25th - Back to school!! Today we will go over the
classroom rules and regulations, and of course we will spend a bit of
time getting to know each other. If you lost your syllabus you
can print out another copy here -
7th
Grade Science Syllabus and Internet Publishing Form |
