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7th Grade Science Class Page Archives 08-09

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PLANS FOR WEEK 13: 6/8 and 6/9/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 6/8

*HUMAN BEANS: Student Art Exhibition TONIGHT, 6 pm @ McColl Center.

 

Tuesday 6/9

   
  Have a relaxing and fun-filled summer!  
     
     

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 12: 6/1 through 6/5/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 6/1

Work on science requirements for Architecture project.  

Tuesday 6/2

Wrap up science requirements for Architecture project.

Wrap up editing of Human Beans stop motion animation photos.

Finish Sustainable Design Legend, if necessary.

Wednesday 6/3

Review for test. Study for test.  All of your notes are in your Architecture folder because we moved them from your binder on Tuesday.

Thursday 6/4

TEST: Photosynthesis,  Respiration, & Human Impacts.

Test Topics:

Paper chromatography

Photosynthesis equation, 5/21

Chloroplasts and colors of light for photosynthesis, 5/21

Cellular Respiration equation, 5/22

Carbon cycle diagram (showing photosynthesis and cellular respiration working together), 5/22

Electromagnetic spectrum, 5/20 + handout

Fossil fuel basics, 5/22

Energy efficient design, architecture folder

Sustainable materials, architecture folder

Water and Garbage (waste) reduction, architecture folder

 

 

Friday 6/5

   

 

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 11: 5/25 through 5/29/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 5/25

*Architecture work time.

 

Tuesday 5/26

*Alternative energy & CO2 reduction

*Architecture work time.

 

Wednesday 5/27

*Building materials & their sustainable alternatives.

*Architecture work time.

 

Thursday 5/28

*Water and solid waste: impacts and reduction.

* Architecture work time.

 

Friday 5/29

No science.  

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 10: lost!  

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 9: 5/11 through 5/15/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 5/11

DOUBLE PERIOD

Attack the weeds in our Human Bean plots!

Supplement the plots with soil and perlite.

Begin building sculptures.

 

Tuesday 5/12

Paper chromatography: ink

 

Wednesday 5/13

GUEST: Heather Freeman.

Ms. Freeman will guide students through the technical process of taking stop motion photos of the sculpture building process.

 

Thursday 5/14

Paper chromatography: plant pigments.  

Friday 5/15

Continue building sculptures.

Transplant the bean plants from pots to plots.

 

 

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 8: 5/4 through 5/8/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 5/4

* Review for TEST

Test Review Guide

Tuesday 5/5

TEST on notes and data from 4/14 to 5/5 

 

Wednesday 5/6

Iowa Test of Basic Skills - no science  

Thursday 5/7

Overnight Trip - no science  

Friday 5/8

Overnight Trip - no science  

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 7: 4/27 through 5/1/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 4/27

*Prepare new vegetable beds with soil.  

Tuesday 4/28

*Plant new vegetable beds with seeds.  

Wednesday 4/29

*Guest: Artist Heather Freeman.  

Thursday 4/30

*Discuss science elements for Architecture culminating project.

 

Friday 5/1

*No science in schedule. Test Review Guide

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 6:  4/20 through 4/24/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 4/20

*Discuss Light & color: mixing colors of light.

*Sunlight & the spectrum: splitting white light.

*Transmission, Reflection, & Absorption of Light

Prepare for notebook check.

Tuesday 4/21

*Wrap up loose ends from Monday's work.

* Power of Light: read & take notes.

* A Model of Heat: preliminary brainstorming.

* Pigments of Plants on our campus: a walk in the woods.

*Notebook Check: leave your notebook on the shelf in the lab.

Finish reading "Power of Light," if necessary.

Wednesday 4/22

*Soil testing

*Role of nutrients in plant growth.

 

Thursday 4/23

*Review what you've learned

 

Friday 4/24

QUIZ on notes from 4/14 to 4/23 Please have a parent sign & date your updated Grade Record Sheet next to my initials.

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 5:  4/13 through 4/17/2009 

Date

UNIT: Light, Color, & Plants

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 4/13

*Turn in Inheritance Project

*Inheritance QUEST

 

Tuesday 4/14

*Influence of sunlight on life

*Sunlight & plants: data analysis.

Finish your seed data graph, if necessary.

Wednesday 4/15

*Sunlight & Heat: designing a device to trap heat quickly  

Thursday 4/16

*Light, filters, and surfaces

*Prepare your notebook for

a Notebook Check. POSTPONED

Friday 4/17

*Garden soil testing

*Light & Color

*Notebook Check: leave your notebook on the shelf in the lab.

 

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 4:  3/30 through 4/3/2009 

Date

UNIT: Inheritance

Class Schedule

Homework

Assignments

Monday 3/30

Wrap up DNA the Secret of Life.

Work on Inheritance Project.

Continue to survey family

members about their phenotypes.

Tuesday 3/31

Work on Inheritance Project.

Continue to survey family

members about their phenotypes, if necessary.

Wednesday 4/1

DNA concept check.

Inheritance Project is DUE at the end of class Monday 4/13.

Study for QUEST.

Thursday 4/2

*NHD group goes to UNCC.

*Campus group goes on Woods Walk (rain plan: DNA origami).  Read Watson & Crick's paper on structure of DNA. 

 

Friday 4/3

Review for Inheritance QUEST.

Quest will cover:

1. Notes from 3/17 to 4/3 (minus 3/27 & 3/30)

2. Inheritance Concept Check

3. Inheritance & Probability Quiz

4. Inheritance & Probability Concept Check

Happy Spring Break! Study for QUEST.  Finish Inheritance project.

 

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 3:  3/23 through 3/27/2009 

Date

UNIT: Inheritance

Class Schedule

Assignment

Monday 3/23

Work on INheritance & Probability concept check.

Update GRS.

Inheritance Quiz: chromosomes, genes, alleles, pedigrees & probability.

Please have a parent sign your Grade Record Sheet.

Finish your Inheritance & Probability concept check if it not complete yet.

Tuesday 3/24

Inheritance Project  

Wednesday 3/25

Gardening & Art.  

Thursday 3/26

Inheritance Project - put together final drafts of famnily tree.  Choose one or two traits to follow in your family. If you  typed your family tree, print it out for Mon.  Begin to survey your family about the trait(s) you have chosen to follow.

Friday 3/27

   

 

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 2:  3/16 through 3/17/2009 

Date

UNIT: Inheritance

Class Schedule

Assignment

Monday 3/16

Dissection Quiz #2: safty, tools, abdominal cavity.

After the quiz: Finish autopsy report & turn in.

 

Tuesday 3/17

Chromosomes & karyotypes (pictures of chromosomes)  

Wednesday 3/18

Chromosomes, genes & alleles.  

Thursday 3/19

Practice writing about and working with genes and alleles. Finish your concept check, if necessary.

Friday 3/20

Drawing pedigrees and finding probability. Study for quiz.

 

PLANS FOR WEEK 1*:  3/9 through 3/13/2009 

Date

UNIT: Human Biology/Inheritance

Class Schedule

Assignment

Monday 3/9

Fetal pig dissection: finish respiratory system. Empty contents of portfolio folder at home.  Keep the GRS in the folder.  Return folder + GRS to science.

Tuesday 3/10

Dissection Quiz: safety, tools, team roles, external features (gender), chest cavity.

Fetal pig dissection: circulatory system.

 

Wednesday 3/11

Fetal pig dissection: finish circulatory system and begin digestive system.  

Thursday 3/12

Fetal pig dissection:  finish digestive system.  Watch adult pig heart and kidney dissection demo.  

Friday 3/13

Prepare final pig autopsy reports.

Dissection Quiz #2 on Monday.

*Spring Trimester begins.

 

 

 

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