Welcome to 7th Grade Life Science
Here you can access what our class is currently studying as well as useful resources for students and parents.
Edmodo website - here you can submit online responses to our weekly homework question. If you cannot login at this point, you have been locked out of the group for security purposes. You can email me for a new group code and I will approve your request to join the group! Thanks for being patient with technology :)
Edmodo website - here you can submit online responses to our weekly homework question. If you cannot login at this point, you have been locked out of the group for security purposes. You can email me for a new group code and I will approve your request to join the group! Thanks for being patient with technology :)
June 13 - Unit test, all work for the week collected, textbooks inventoried. Next week we will have an outdoor lab. Relax over the weekend; you earned it!
June 10 - 12 - Students researched an ecosystem and created food webs using the program Inspiration. On the 12th we went over the review guide for the test Friday.
June 9 - Some classes had their quiz due to the evacuation Friday.
Others completed their vocab and made a food web for a taco.
The Ecology Unit Test is scheduled for Friday, June 13th. I will send a reminder email to parents on Monday June 9th when I assign students their review guide. Good Luck to all ...hang in there!
Click Here to Download the Review Guide (due in class Thursday 6/12)
Students - please be aware of this date and schedule to take the test earlier in the week if you plan to be out on June 13th. Thank you!
June 6 - Students played review bingo and completed their Water Quality/ecosystem quiz. Deer Writing Piece is due in class Monday. Students can print a hard copy, or share it with me on GAFE. ([email protected])
June 5 - Students began writing their opinion piece about deer population regulation and its effect on ecosystems.
June 4 - Students completed their questions about biodiversity and viewed a powerpoint to participate in a discussion of deer populations and our watershed's forest ecosystem.
June 3 - Students read about ecosystems in Living Together, identified biotic and abiotic factors in a forest ecosystem, and simulated a biodiversity count using organism cards. Results were graphed.
Quiz Friday, June 6th on Water Quality Indicators and Biodiversity. We will play review bingo on Friday before the quiz but be prepared before then!
June 2 - Students measured the height of plants. Then, students completed their weekly vocab and reviewed water quality indicators (pink bubble web). 7th period completed their dissolved oxygen reading and questions.
May 30 - Students measured the initial height of their plants we will be tracking over the next two-to-three weeks. Students read about dissolved oxygen and discussed which factors impact dissolved oxygen levels in water bodies.
May 29 - Students completed the concentration lab and compared different concentrations of fertilizer in preparation for testing the effects of fertilizer concentration on plant growth.
May 28 - Students completed their pH lab to determine acidity of mystery solutions and guess what they were.
May 27 - Students completed vocabulary for water quality and engaged in a class discussion. Homework: wear closed-toed shoes for the pH lab Tuesday. Edmodo question (online or paper copy) is due Friday.
May 23 - Students set up their Edmodo accounts and took a learning styles quiz to post their results on the class' group page.
May 22 - Students played review bingo and took the Land Use and Streams quiz.
May 21 - Students watched a video about the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and pollutants that affect it from point and non-point sources.
May 20 - Students completed stream lab part II by simulating runoff and groundwater with different land use types.
May 19 - Students completed a vocabulary activity and discussed point and non-point source pollution to compare and contrast. Wear closed-toed shoes for tomorrow (Tuesday) we will have Stream Lab Part II!
May 18 - Pamphlets are graded! They look great! If you got a zero I might have yours and it has no name on it. Otherwise, you may turn it in late for 1/2 credit.
May 15 - Students discussed lab data and created a diagram of terms related to stream processes.
May 14 - Students completed their stream table lab.
May 13 - Students began Watershed pamphlets. Homework: Complete your pamphlet and wear closed-toed shoes for the lab tomorrow.
May 12 - Students began Watershed research for watershed pamphlets.