Thursday December 11th, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to identify the main body systems and answer general questions about each system after reading an overview of each.

Activities:

• Read Body Systems Booklet
• Answer Body Systems Questions and TURN IN

Monday December 8th - Wednesday December 10th, 2014

Objective:  Students will show understanding of ecosystems and human impact on ecosystems by completing a powerpoint presentation and research notes.

Activities:

• Students will continue working on ecosystem unit project.  This project is due Friday!!  We will not work on it in class past Wednesday.  Rubric and directions are in google classroom.

Wednesday December 3rd - Friday December 5th 2014

Objective: Students will be able to show, through notes and creating a presentation, how a specific ecosystem functions and how humans impact that ecosystem.

Activities:

• Work on Ecosystem Project
• Directions and Rubric are in google classroom
• Project is DUE next Friday, December 12th at the beginning of class

Wednesday December 3rd, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to identify ecosystems and characteristics of each.

Activities:

• Finish ecosystem presentations
• Go over and begin ecosystem final project - Due next Friday December 12th

Tuesday December 2nd, 2014

Objective:  Students will show knowledge of an ecosystem through presenting material to the class in a group and individually answering three questions about the ecosystem.

Activities:

• Present group ecosystem project
• Answer individual questions about the ecosystem

Monday December 1st, 2014

I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing break.  Only three more weeks until Christmas Break!!

Objective: Students will be able to indentify characteristics and organisms in different ecosystems found throughout the world by making posters and presenting the information to the class.

Activities:

• Students will be assigned an ecosystem in a group.  That group will make a poster/presi/some type of presentation to show the rest of the class information about that ecosystem.
• Students will present the information tomorrow during class.
• There is a chart in google classroom that must be filled out for each ecosystem.

Monday November 24th and Tuesday November 25th

I am combining these days because we are doing one activity to span the two days.

Objective:  Students will understand how humans can impact and ecosystem in both a negative and a positive way.

Activities:

• Monday Writing - Decomposers
• Finish Owl Pellet Dissection questions and turn in
• Watch Mono Lake Video:
•  http://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/1992/12/10/mono-lake-californias-gold-311/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmbZVQYAPs
• Read Mono Lake from Foss book and answer questions
• Make food web of organisms found in Mono Lake on google classroom
• Answer questions from Mono Lake Reading in Foss book and on google classroom

Friday November 21st, 2014

Objective: Students will understand the importance of decomposers in and ecosystem and the role they play.

Activities:

• Finish Owl Pellet Dissection lab and turn in through google classroom
• Make worm composting bin and learn about red wigglers

Thursday November 20th, 2014

Today Mrs. Beuke will be talking to all the 7th grade students about the Signs of Suicide which is a counseling standard for 7th grade.

November 19th, 2014

Objective:  Students will know what it means to show respect to your self, school and community

Activties:

• Respect video
• Respect story
• Respect activity

Tuesday November 18th, 2014

***WE STILL NEED LOTS OF NEWSPAPER FOR OUR ACTIVITY THIS FRIDAY!!!****

Objective: Students will be able to identify bones from an owl pellet and explain the life cycle and a food web that a barn owl is part of.

Activities:

• Owl Pellet Dissection
• Complete and turn in owl pellet lab on google classroom

Monday November 17th, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to show knowledge by taking a quiz on food webs and the transfer of energy.  Students will be able to explain the life cycle of an owl.

Activities:

• Food Chains, Food Webs and Energy Transfer Quiz
• Writing Monday
• Video on Owl Life Cycle and intro to Owl Pellet dissection

Friday November 14th, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to explain the different parts of the carbon cycle and the importance of each through reading and writing quiz questions.

Activities:

• Brainpop clips on: Carbon cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Water cycle, Energy Pyramid and Food Chain
• Carbon Cycle Quiz
• In Google Classroom open Carbon Cycle Quiz document.  Each group will be assigned one slide you must become an expert on. Use the links in Google Classroom to the Discovery Techbook to learn about the Carbon Cycle (Carbon Cycle and Carbon-The Element of Surprise)
• Each group must write 5 questions AND answers on their slide that could go on a quiz.  Questions can be multiple choice, true/false, fill-in, matching, short answer, etc.  ****Make sure you write the question AND answer****
• With 15 minutes left in class each group will share what they learned about their slide

Thursday November 12th

Objective: Students will be able to identify organisms as producers, consumers, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores.

Activities:

• Finish and turn in techbook activity
• Finish Monday writing and turn in
• Make sure Oh Deer and Kaibab Plateau activities are turned in
• Watch Tedtalks and fill our tedtalks sheet

Wednesday November 12, 2014

Happy Freezing Wednesday!!!!

Objective: Student will know how to make a food web and how energy is passsed from one organism to the next.

Activities:

• Finish techbook activity and turn in

Monday November 10th

Objective:  Students will be able to draw and explain food webs, food chains and energy pyramids.

Activities:

• Students will continue working on Techbook activity.  Activity must be done by the end of class Wednesday.  Students will have half of the class period Wednesday to work on the activity.

Friday November 7th

Go BROWNS!!!!!!

Objective: Students will be able to draw a food web using different organisms in a community.

Activities:

• Techbook webquest

Thursday November 6th

DON'T FORGET TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE AVALANCHE GAME NOVEMBER 22ND.  IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS HOW TO DO IT, JUST ASK ME.

THE DANCE IS TOMORROW!!!!!!! BUY YOUR TICKET AT LUNCH

KEEP BRINGING IN THOSE CANNED FOOD ITEMS.  YOU GUYS ROCK!!!

KEEP BRINGING CLOTHING DONATIONS!! WE NEED AS MUCH AS WE CAN GET BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 24TH!!!


Objective:  Student will be able to explain through graphing and answering questions why populations fluctuate and why limiting factors are important.

Activities:

• Graph Oh Deer! data and answer questions.  Turn in!
• Read Kaibab Plateau story, graph data and answer questions.  Turn in!!

**These activities must be completed in class today or they are homework**

Tuesday November 4th, 2014

**Don't forget the dance is Friday!! Tickets go on sale tomorrow at lunch for $3.00

**Don't forget to bring in your clothing donations for Red Apple and a treat for you!

** Don't forget to bring in canned food to your first hour class so you can win a breakfast burrito


Objective:

• Students will be able to use ecology vocabulary correctly in sentences and draw pictures

Activities:

• Ecology vocab wordsplash

Monday November 3rd, 2014

Hooray for the Browns!! Who thought they would be doing this well!!!!

Objective:

• Students will be able to explain through reading a text and answering questions why the disappearance of one species can effect an entire ecosystem.
• Students will understand the difference between a population, community and ecosystem.

Activities:

• Monday Writing
• Bill Nye video - Populations

Thursday October 30th, 2014

Objective:

• Students will be able to identify and explain the main characteristics of living things.
• Students will be able to define key vocabulary terms used when discussing ecology.

Activities:

• What is Life? notes (do not turn in)
• Ecology evocab (found in google classroom)

Wednesday October 29th, 2014

Objective:

• Students will know what are the main characteristics of living things.

Activities:

• Fill out Adams County Student Survey
• What is Life? notes

Monday October 27th, 2014

Another win for the Browns!! We are on a roll!!!

Objective: Student will be able to identify characteristics that make something living vs. nonliving

Activities:

• Monday Writing

• living/nonliving lab (in google classroom)

Friday October 24th, 2014

Objective: Students will show how watching Tedtalks relates to life.

Activities:

• Go over Chemistry Unit test
• Watch Ted talks

Thursday October 23rd, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to answer question about chemical reactions, states of matter, and atoms by completing a unit test.

Activities:

• CHEMISTRY UNIT TEST

Wednesday October 22nd, 2014

Objective:  Students will be able to explain the main concepts of our Chemistry Unit and answer review questions correctly

Activities:

• Chemical Reaction Practice
• Go over Chemistry Review Sheet

 *****STUDY GUIDE IS DUE TODAY AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.  UNIT TEST WILL BE IN CLASS TOMORROW.  ANSWERS TO THE STUDY GUIDE WILL BE POSTED AT THE END OF THE DAY IN YOUR GOOGLE CLASSROOM*****

Tuesday October 21st, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to identify exothermic and endothermic reactions

Activities:

• Elephant Toothpaste

****UNIT STUDY GUIDE IS DUE TOMORROW AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS.  UNIT TEST IS THURSDAY!!!!********

Monday October 20th, 2014

Objectives: Students will be able to show the Law of Conservation Of Mass

Activities:

• Writing Monday
• Alka-Seltzer Lab

***UNIT TEST IS THIS THURSDAY.  UNIT STUDY GUIDE IS DUE WEDNESDAY***

Friday October 17th, 2014

Happy Friday!!!!

Objective: Students will be able to make models of molecules in reactions and show the Law of Conservation of Mass

Activites:

• Dot Lab (directions are in google classroom but assignment will be turned in on a piece of paper)

Thursday October 16th, 2014

Happy Thursday Everyone!!

Objective:  Students will be able to build molecules and identify what makes each molecule unique.

Activities:

• Pipe cleaner molecule activity
• Continue working on balancing equations

Wednesday October 15th, 2014

Objectives:  Students will be able to count number of atoms and molecules in a chemical formula

Activites:

• Counting atoms (google classroom)
• Balancing equations using the white board

Tuesday October 14th, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to identify how many atoms of an element are on each side of a chemical equation.

Activities:

• Chemical Reaction Notes
• Atomic Math Catcher
• Practice counting atoms

Monday October 13th, 2014

Monday October 13th, 2014
Hooray for the Cleveland Browns and Denver Broncos!!! Super Bowl bound.

Objective: Students will be able to make models of different elements on the periodic table

Activities:

• Atom model activity (in google classroom - must turn in)

Thursday October 9th, 2014

Thursday October 9th, 2014
Objective: Students will be able to identify parts of an atom and how atoms combine to form molecules.

Activities:

• Atom Reading (will read as class)
• Questions from atom readings

Wednesday October 8th, 2014

Wednesday October 8th, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to identify physical and chemical reactions.  Students will be able to identify the make up of atoms and how atoms bond together to form all matter.

Activities:

• Physical/Chemical Changes quiz
• Bill Nye - Atoms
• Atom Reading and questions (if time allows)

*****Make sure you have turned in Part #1 and Part #2 of the Physical/Chemical Reaction Lab, Chemistry Wordsplash, Chemistry Reflections from the articles and States of Matter Attainment*****

Tuesday October 7th, 2014

Tuesday October 7th, 2014
Objective: Students will be able to identify if different reactions are physical or chemical
Activities:

• Physical and Chemical Changes Lab #2

Monday October 6th, 2014

Happy Monday!!! The Browns AND the Broncos won yesterday.  It was a great Sunday.

Objectives: Students will be able to perform experiments and identify if the changes that occurred were physical changes or chemical changes.

Activites:

• Check out Earth Fair
• Physcial and Chemical Changes Walk About Lab Part #1

Friday October 3rd, 2014

Happy Friday!!! GO BROWNS!!! and BRONCOS!!!

Objectives: Students will be able to identify physical/chemical properties and physical/chemical changes

Activities:

• Readings and reflection questions - each student will choose 4 articles to read and answer the reflection questions for each article.

**All work up to this point must be complete and turned in by the beginning of class Monday in order to participate in the labs****

Thursday October 2nd, 2014

Objective: Students will be able to  explain the difference between physical and chemical changes and identify different reactions.  Students will be able to identify which state of matter different materials belong to.

Activities:

• Finish States of Matter Attainment
• Finish Chemistry Word Splash and turn in if not already done
• Physical/Chemical Change notes

Wednesday October 1st, 2014

Objective:  Students will show understanding of chemistry vocabulary.  Students will be able to explain the difference between a chemical change and a physical change in a reaction.

Activities:

• Bill Nye-Chemical Reactions
• Chemistry Wordsplash - must turn in by the end of class (in google classroom)

Tuesday September 30th, 2014

Objective: Students will know the states of matter and the difference between and physical and a chemical change.

Activities:

• States of matter notes
• States of matter activity in google classroom
• States of matter concept attainment in google classroom

Monday September 29th, 2014

Happy Monday!!!

Objective: Students will be able to read and write an article about science.  Students will be able to discuss the different states of matter and why they occur.

Activities:

• Writing Monday
• Finish Webquest (turn in paper copy)
• Begin notes on states of matter

Friday September 26th, 2014

Objective:  Students will understand why chemistry is important.

Activity:

• Chemistry webquest
• Tedtalks

Thursday September 25th

Objective:  Students will be able to identify the states of matter

Activities:

• Video on Chemistry and States of Matter - Students will write A-Z notes on paper and turn in at the end of the video
• Begin Webquest on Matter - webquest is on paper and links to each site are found in google classroom ***this is not homework, we will work on it Friday in class

Wednesday September 24th, 2014

Objective: Students will show what knowledge they have of chemistry prior to beginning our chemistry unit.

Activities:

• Chemistry Pre-test
• Physical Science: Chemistry video with questions (turn in questions)

Tuesday September 23rd, 2014

Happy Tuesday!!!
Objective:

• Students will be able to complete an entire lab on their own using the steps of the scientific investigation.

Activities:

• Final Bubble Gum Lab - whatever is not completed in class today is homework

*****ALL WORK FOR OUR SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION UNIT MUST BE TURNED IN BEFORE TOMORROW. PENNY LAB, AIRPLANE LAB, DOT LAB, SIMPSON'S PRACTICE, GOLDFISH LAB AND GRAPHING PACKET PRACTICE.*****

Monday September 22nd, 2014

Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a great weekend despite the Browns and the Broncos losing :(

Objective:  Students will be able to read a scientific article and extract information to answer questions in an essay form.  Students will be able to draw graphs and extrapolate data from experiments.

Activities:

• Monday writing
• Graph Packet Practice - due at the end of class or else it is homework

*****At this point the airplane lab, penny lab and dot lab should all be turned in.  The lab should be turned in electronically and the graph needs to be turned in at my desk.*****

Friday September 19th

Happy Friday and go Browns!!!  How you all have a great weekend and enjoy the beautiful weather while we still have it.

Objective: Students will be able to complete an experiment.  Students will be able to draw information from a graph and analyze data.

Activities:

• Complete Airplane lab and turn in (graph hand written and the rest of the lab on google classroom)
• Work on graphing and data analysis packet (found in google classroom)

Thursday September 18th

Objective:  Students will be able to identify variables, write a testable question and a hypothesis and complete all steps of a scientific investigation
Activites:

• Quiz on identifying variables, writing a testable question and writing a hypothesis
• Airplane Lab (students must do on their own and turn in)

Wednesday September 17th

Objective:  Students will be able to write conclusions and perform complete labs
Activities:
Finish peer editing and turn in dot lab
Write a conclusion for the penny lab, edit using conclusion edit in classroom and turn in with graph
Begin Airplane lab

Tuesday September 16th

Objective:  Students will be able to write a conclusion after conducting an experiment.
Activities:

• As a class write conclusion for the dot lab
• Individually write conclusion for penny lab
• Begin Airplane lab if time allows

Monday September 15th

Objective:  Students will be able to complete all steps of the scientific method correctly.
Activites:

• Writing Monday
• Pop Quiz on the first 4 steps of the scientific method
• Scientific Investigation Conclusion Notes
• Write Penny Lab Conclusion (complete entire lab and turn in)

Friday September 12th

Objective:  Students will be able to identify variables, write a testable question and hypothesis, perform an experiment, collect and graph data from the experiment.

• Penny Lab (in google classroom)
• Make sure graph practice and graph from the dot lab is turned in

Thursday September 11th

Today we will be on an assembly schedule.  During the assembly time we will go over our lockdown and other emergency procedures with our last hour class.

Objective:  Students will be able to graph data collected from a lab

• Practice worksheet on graphing (paper copy)
• Finish Dot Lab graph and turn in
• If time begin Penny Lab (in google classroom)

Wednesday September 10th

Objective:  Today students will be able to collect data and graph the information collected.

• Dot Lab data collection and graphing

Tuesday September 9th

Objective:  Students will be able to write a detailed list of materials and procedures in order to be able to complete a lab.

• Go Fish - materials and procedure practice (in google classroom - must turn in)
• Continue with graphing/data notes

Monday September 8th

Happy Monday!!
Today students will be able to collect data and graph the information that has been collected.

• Monday writing (article is in google classroom under announcements and the writing questions are in google classroom under assignments)
• Scientific Investigation data collection and graphing notes practice
• If time allows we will begin the Dot Lab (in google classroom)Dot Lab

Friday September 5th, 2014

Happy Friday and go Browns!!
Today students will make sure they are experts at finding variables, writing a testable question and writing an hypothesis.  Students will also be able to collect data and use it to fill in tables and graphs.

• Complete Simpson's practice worksheet and turn in for a score. (in google classroom)
• Begin notes on data collection and graphing
• Ted Talks - Lizzie Vazquez on bullying and feeling beautiful

Thursday September 4th

Today students will be able to identify variables, write a testable question and write an hypothesis.

• Continue with scientific investigation notes (fill-in notes and power point are located in google classroom in case you have missed any of the notes)
• Finish testable question practice sheet
• If time allows, start on the Simpson's practice sheet which will be turned in for a score.

Wednesday September 3th

Today students will be able to identify the key words used in a hypothesis, identify variables and write a testable question and hypothesis.

• Metric System and Conversion Quiz
• Hypothesis notes
• Practice writing hypothesis and testable questions

Tuesday September 2nd, 2014

Happy Tuesday!  I hope you had a great 3 day weekend!
Today, students will be able to list the 6 steps of the scientific method.  Students will also be able to write a Testable Question when given a problem.

• Continue working on scientific investigation notes on Testable Question (posted Friday and in google classroom)

*****Tomorrow we will be having a quiz on CONVERSIONS and METRIC MEASUREMENTS*****  Make sure you understand conversions and have the order of prefixes memorized, you will not be able to use your notes.

Friday August 29th

Happy Friday!!

Today students will be able to identify the steps of the scientific method.
We will also be doing a lesson based on Random Acts of Kindness, an amazing program Rocky Top has adopted to form a wonderful and caring community.

• Watch Ted Talks about "Because I said I would" program Ted Talks
• Fill out promise card and post on wall
• Begin Scientific Investigation notes (problem question and hypothesis) Scientific Investigation Fill In Notes

Thursday August 28th

Today we are going to continue working on metric measurements and conversions.

•  Brain Pop
• Conversion Practice (google classroom)
• Metric Games Metric Games
• Metric Man (handout)
• "In 7th grade I promise to....."

Wednesday August 27th

Happy Wednesday!
Today we will be:

• finishing conversion practice in your metric packet
• completing a metric measurement lab (make sure to turn this in!)Metric Measurement Lab

Tuesday August 26th

Happy Tuesday!
Today we are going to work on:

• conversions 
• metric units
• scientific investigation

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Thursday August 21th

Welcome to your first full day of 7th grade.
Today we will be:

• getting to know each other
• getting your first assigned seats
• talking about classroom expectations
• safety rules and poster

Welcome Back!!

Welcome to 7th grade science.  We are going to have so much fun this year!! I love science and I hope you will too by the end of the year.  We will be doing lots of activities and lab so be ready to move and have fun. On our first day I want to learn about YOU!! We will be doing lots of getting to know you activities so we can all learn about each other in class.