Tuesday 5/28/13: Continue/finish notes on frog dissections.
Thank-you notes: Dr. Croes, Dr. MacFarlaine, campus guides.
Walking with Beasts.
Science Textbooks DUE TODAY!
Wednesday 5/29/13: Jacob's Ladder.
3D Hologram.
Homework Due today: "All Rise."
Thursday 5/30/13: Balloon Fuse.
Friday 5/31/13: Walking with Beasts.
"GLOVES, GLOVES - MY KINGDOM FOR MORE GLOVES!"
Seriously, we need gloves!
If you could donate a box of exam gloves that would be wonderful. We have enough to get us through the next several days of frog dissections, but we won't have enough for Friday's field trip to the cadaver lab at Shasta College.
Thank you in advance for supporting Boulder Creek Junior High science! :)
Monday 5/20/13: Frog Dissections
Tuesday 5/21/13: Frog Dissections
Wednesday 5/22/13: Conclude Frog Dissections.
Thursday 5/23/13: Frog info.
Science magazine.
Field Trip permission slips due by today.
Homework due: "Bullfrogs."
Friday 5/24/13: Trip to Shasta College. Cadaver Lab, The Farm, Fire Science/Welding, Campus Tour.
Leave campus at 8:40. Back by lunch.
Week of 4/29 - 5/3: No Homework due to Star Testing. Get lots of sleep, eat a good breakfast, and let's do our best on the test!
Monday 4/29/13: "Tsunami Timeline."
Tuesday 4/30/13: Digestive System. Human Model - removable organs.
Wednesday 5/1/13: Science Magazine.
Thursday 5/2/13: LAB: "The Small Intestine."
Friday 5/3/13: % of Gasses in the Air.
7th Grade - Final Project: "Build Your Own Electric Motor."
We will start building our motors on Monday, 4/22/13.
Click here to see more about this fun and challenging learning activity!
Week of 4/22 - 4/26: No Homework due to Star Testing. Get lots of sleep, eat a good breakfast, and let's do our best on the test :)
Monday 4/22/13: Begin constructing Electric Motors
Tuesday 4/23/13: Star Testing 8:05 - 9:00
Continue Electric Motors
Skeletal System review
Wednesday 4/24/13: Star Testing 8:05 - 9:00
Continue Electric Motors
Muscular System Review
Thursday 4/25/13: Star Testing 8:05 - 9:00
Continue Electric Motors
Begin Digestive System
Friday 4/26/13: Finish Electric Motors
Monday 4/15/13: Minimum Day. School is dismissed at 1:05 today.
Finish "Hemo the Magnificient."
Begin study of Muscular System.
Tuesday 4/16/13: 3 Types of Muscles.
View human muscle cells using microscopes.
Muscle Cell sketches.
Wednesday 4/17/13: Muscle Pairs.
LABS: "Muscle Challenges."
Thursday 4/18/13: Homework due today - Home lab: "Changing Your Pulse Rate."
LAB: "Are You a Windbag?"
Friday 4/19/13: "Becoming Human" (continue).
Click to open: Cell Project or Human Body Report. Due March 25, 2013.
Click to open: MLA format for Research Report.
Click to open a pdf: Adapting to Environmental Change - Student Workbook.
Tuesday 4/9/13 - Friday 4/12/13:
7th grade students are with Mrs. Eoff in History.
Monday 3/25/13: Projects due today!
LAB: Exhaled vs. Inhaled Air.
Respiratory System & Blood Cells.
Tuesday 3/26/13: Follow the Path of Blood through the Heart.
Wednesday 3/27/13: LABS: "Finding Your Pulse Rate"
& "Changing Your Pulse Rate."
Thursday 3/28/13: TEST: Respiratory System & Heart
DEMO: "Rock N Roll, Su-Z-Q"
Friday 3/29/13: "Becoming Human," continued.
Science Magazine.
Monday 3/18/13: Science Magazine.
Tuesday 3/19/13: LAB: "Bad Hair Day."
Wednesday 3/20/13: EEI Test
- study your environmental education notes and student edition/workbook.
Thursday 3/21/13:LAB: "Are You a Windbag?"
Friday 3/22/13: LAB: "Pour CO2 on Your Fire."
Monday 3/11/13: Science Magazine.
Finish Skeletal System Packet.
Return Quiz.
Tuesday 3/12/13: Click to open pdf: Sketch: Bone making Cells. Due 3/13. Overlay pencil with blue pen for an A+
LABS: Knee Jerker, Limb Levitation, Who is Stronger?
Wednesday 3/13/13: LAB: "Can the Ruler Do a 360?"
Thursday 3/14/13: LAB: "Hard as a Rock" - examine bones after one week of soaking.
Homework due today: "The Common Cold."
Friday 3/15/13: The Wolf. LAB: "Make Lightning."
Monday 3/4/13: DEMO: "Make Lightning."
"The Wolf."
Begin studying the Skeletal System.
Tuesday 3/5/13: Science World Magazine.
EEI Environments board game.
Wednesday 3/6/13: DEMO: "Uncle Fester's Bed."
Sketch: Bone Making Cells.
Thursday 3/7/13: LAB: "Hard as a Rock?"
We need fully cooked chicken or turkey bones (larger ones).
Please bring them in by Thursday so your group can do the lab.
Two bones per lab group needed.
Bones should have as little meat left on them as possible.
Friday 3/8/13: QUIZ - bones of the human body.
As off 2/4/2013, 7th grade students will have "double-block" classes of history with Mrs. Eoff.
Science will resume with "double-block" classes on March 4, 2013.
There will be no science homework during the off-track times.
Students who did not make their oral presentations (science article, typed summary, illustrations - on a poster board) may come in before or after school during February and will receive late credit. 10% will be taken off for each additional week late.
Due Monday 1/28/13: Science NEWS Article Summary Presentations.
On a poster-board:
1. The science NEWS article (25 points - NEWS, not a reference/encyclopedia article).
2. Your summary (typed, half page maximum length - 25 points).
3. Illustration(s)/ Picture(s) (25 points)
4. Oral Presentation (25 points - read summary, explain illustrations, answer questions).
Monday 1/28/13: Article Summary Presentations. Required on poster-board: 1. Science Article (if you need an article go to Science World Magazine - see link on my "Links" page).
2. Typed Summary (half page maximum). 3. Illustration/picture.
Science World - "Are You Sure That's Honey?"
Begin Lesson 3, EEI: "Human Population Growth and Extinction."
Tuesday 1/29/13: Continue Article Summary Presentations.
"Penguin Count Doubles."
Continue Lesson 3, EEI.
Wednesday 1/30/13: "The Wolf."
LAB: "Can You Charge the Tape?"
Thursday 1/31/13: EEI Lesson 4: "Natural Resources and Extinction."
"The Common Cold."
Friday 2/1/13: Dino Autopsy.
Lesson 5 EEI - "Coastal Dunes, Kelp Forest, & High Desert" -
readings and board game.
Monday 1/21/13: Holiday - No School.
Tuesday 1/22/13: Vocabulary Squares.
Study Jam.
Collect Mammoth Sketch.
Wednesday 1/23/13: LAB: "Can you Move the Can?"
Vocab Squares - Presentation.
"The Swan."
Thursday 1/24/13: "Science World - Current Science."
Health - Foods You Eat.
Homework: "What are Trophic Levels?" due today.
Friday 1/25/13: Antarctic Breakdown.
Super Snacks.
Monday 1/14/13: Opossum & Canadian Geese.
Western Gull.
Tuesday 1/15/13: LAB: "How Will the Water React?"
Allosaurus, Passenger Pigeons, & Woolly Mammoth.
Extinct Species Chart.
Wednesday 1/16/13: Animal Adaptations.
Extinct Animal Sketch.
Thursday 1/17/13: LAB: "The Balloon & You."
Friday 1/18/13: "The Unknown World."
Small Insects, Parasites, & Bacteria.
Tuesday 1/8/13: Jello Cell - oral presentations.
Wednesday 1/9/13: LAB - Static Electricity #3. "The Puffed Rice is Fickle."
Environmental Change Vocabulary
Thursday 1/10/13: Environmental Change Vocabulary, continued.
Begin Lesson #1, Environmental Change.
Homework due today: "Are All Animal Cells the Same?"
Friday 1/11/13: "Coyotes" adapting to environmental change.
White Wolves.
Monday 12/3/12: 1. Static Electricity Lab. 2. Human Hobbits 3. The Common Cold
Friday 11/30/12: LAB: Static Electricity Experiment(s)
As off November 26, 2012, 7th grade students will have "double-block" classes of history with Mrs. Eoff.
7th grade students will meet for science classes three times during the history block. The dates are: 11/30/12, 12/3/12, and 12/14/12.
Other than these exceptions, science will resume with "double-block" classes on January 8, 2013.
There will be no science homework during the off-track times.
The Jello Cell Projects will be oral presentations and will occur on 11/30/12. Please make sure you have finished the summary, ingredients list (showing what each ingredient stands for), and a photograph of you with your jello cell by that date. Some parents have requested extra time, so this will give you the time you need to complete the model.
3D Jello Cell Project - Assigned on 10-25-12. Due by November 14, 2012.
Click the following to open a PDF: JELLO PROJECT PDF.
Monday 11-12-12: Holiday - Happy Veteran's Day
Tuesday 11-13-12: Anacharis Lab
Wednesday 11-14-12: Chapter Review.
Thursday 11-15-12: Cells Test.
Friday 11-16-12: Test Review.
Monday 11-5-12: Page 72 Lesson Review. Food Sources List. "What are Chloroplasts & Mitochondria?"
Tuesday 11-6-12: LAB: Cheek Cells. Reinforcement p. 19 "Cells & Energy. Binder Check.
Wednesday 11-7-12: "Mastery "Cells & Energy." Content Vocabulary - Cell Structure.
Thursday 11-8-12: Power Point - Lesson 3.
Friday 11-9-12: Dolphin & Whale Feeding Habits.
Monday 10-29-12: Science Notebook pp. 6-8. Stentor and Paramecium. Finish Amoeba & Complex Cell.
Tuesday 10-30-12: LAB - Prepared slides: microbes. Euglena & Volvox.
Wednesday 10-31-12: Happy Halloween - BOO! If you wish, bring a tasty snack to share :)
Invisible World (Microbes, Infrared, Time Lapse).
Thursday 11-1-12: Lesson 3 text pp. 68 - 72
Homework due today: Handout: "Are All Plant Cells the Same?"
Friday 11-2-12: The Dark Zone. The Boy Who Talked to Animals.
Monday 10-22-12: Continue Pond Water Lab. Finish bacteria sketch. Amoeba.
Tuesday 10-13-12: Science Notebook pp. 2-5 (reveiw). "Mastery - The Cell" handout.
Wednesday 10-14-12: Science Notebook pp. 6-8. Stentor and Euglena.
Thursday 10-15-12: Complex Animal Cell - colored pencils required.
Cells and What they Do.
Homework due today: Pond Water Lab Summary paragraph.
Friday 10-16-12: Life in the Ocean. The Boy Who Talked to Animals.
Science Articles
Assignment: Students are to find a science-related news article. It must be current for the month (not from last summer or last year or last decade). You may use the newspaper (eg. Redding.com if you don't subscribe to a paper copy), magazine, or the internet (as long as it is a legitimate news site). You may NOT use an encyclopedia (eg. Wikipedia). The article must be attached to your TYPED summary.
The paper should: 1. Introduce the article (title of article, name of source & page #).
2. Explain which branch of science you see in the article (earth, life, physical).
3. Give a brief summary (not copied word for word, though you may certainly use the science vocabulary in the article).
3. How does this relate to your community (city, state, country, world)?
4. What does this lead you to think about the topic?
5. One to two paragraph limit.
Due dates this year: To be determined.
The paper should: 1. Introduce the article (title of article, name of source & page #).
2. Explain which branch of science you see in the article (earth, life, physical).
3. Give a brief summary (not copied word for word, though you may certainly use the science vocabulary in the article).
3. How does this relate to your community (city, state, country, world)?
4. What does this lead you to think about the topic?
5. One to two paragraph limit.
Due dates this year: To be determined.
Monday 9/17
Review/Discuss Quiz #2 & RE pp. 6 - 11.
Science Notebook pp. 6 - 7
Science Notebook pp. 6 - 7
Tuesday 9/18
LAB: Microscope use. Prepared Slide.
Sketch.
Sketch.
Wednesday 9/19
80 minutes of science today.
LAB: More practice with Prepared Slides.
LAB: Make a "Wet Mount Slide" - "The Enormous E"
LAB: More practice with Prepared Slides.
LAB: Make a "Wet Mount Slide" - "The Enormous E"
Thursday 9/20
Onion Cells.
Friday 9/21
Monday 9/10
Food Webs.
Tuesday 9/11
Quiz.
Reinforcement p. 17
Reinforcement p. 17
Wednesday 9/12
Thursday 9/13
Cell Parts - simplified.
SN pp. 6-7
SN pp. 6-7
Friday 9/14
Monday 9/3
Labor Day. No school.
Tuesday 9/4
Begin (#3) Science Notebook pp. 1 - 5 "Cells & LIfe."
Wednesday 9/5
Discuss Science news Article summaries - one due per month. Staple article to your summary.
Lesson 1 Power Point. Take notes.
Make study cards for vocab.
Lesson 1 Power Point. Take notes.
Make study cards for vocab.
Thursday 9/6
Demo" "It's Alive - Or IS IT???" (#4)
Friday 9/7
Lesson 1 - Quiz. next week.
(#5) Food Web - you will need your colored pencils today!
HOMEWORK due today: (#7) "Mastery" p. 11
(#5) Food Web - you will need your colored pencils today!
HOMEWORK due today: (#7) "Mastery" p. 11
Monday 8/27
Continue Specimen Sketch.
Tuesday 8/28
Syllabus Overview. Lesson 1. Science Notebook (SN) pp. 1 - 5.
Wednesday 8/29
Lab: "Pepper Soup."
Thursday 8/30
Lab: "Pepper Soup." (Results & Conclusion). Finish notes - Lesson 1.
Friday 8/31
Collect homework: Assignment #2 RE pp. 1-5.
Monday 8/20
No school today. Teacher meetings.
Tuesday 8/21
No school today. Teacher meetings. See you tomorrow!
Wednesday 8/22
Introductions. Procedures. Seating assignments. Distribute Textbooks. 1st day packets (signature page due by Friday). Scientific method.
Thursday 8/23
Scientific Method. Collect signature pages.
Friday 8/24
All signature pages due. Class materials should be here. Sketch requirements. First science sketch: student-selected specimens.