7th Grade Life Science Assignments

Quarter #1


Chapter 3 Notes

If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get re-possessed.

Assignments for the week of October 29, 2012 to November 2, 2012

Monday - Lab - Introduction to the Microscope Lab Activity
Tuesday - Notes 3/2, DRA - 3/2 (#'s 16-26), Lab - Cork Cells
Wednesday - Notes on 3/2, Finish and hand in cork cell lab, Section 2 Review, Quiz 3/2 on Thursday
Thursday - Finish notes on 3/2, Go over DRA 3/2 and Section 2 Review, Quiz 3/2, Crossword Puzzle
Friday - Go over Crossword Puzzles, Labs - Plant Cells (onion) and Animal Cells (human epithelial), Activity - Can You Identify These Cell Structures.


After a dentist and a manicurist married, they
 fought tooth and nail.



Assignments for the week of October 22, 2012 to October 26, 2012

Monday - Finish notes 3/1, Go over DRA 3/1 and Section 1 Review, Quiz 3/1, Read 3/2 (pages 68-75)
Tuesday - Notes 3/2, Label microscope, Quiz on Wednesday/Thursday on 1/2 of microscope parts, CTB/State Assessment Test - periods 4 and 5 today
Wednesday - Notes 3/2, Label microscope, Quiz on Thursday on 1/2 of microscope parts, CTB/State Assessment Test - periods 1 and 2 today, Quiz - Microscope Parts (right side), Lab - Care and Use of the Microscope
Thursday - Notes 3/2, Quiz - Microscope Parts (left side), CTB/State Assessment Test - period 4 today, Lab - Care and Use of the Microscope
Friday - CTB/State Assessment Test - period 2 today, Notes 3/2, Quiz - Microscope Parts (left side), DRA - Chapter 3, Section 2 (#'s 1-15).


The batteries were given out free of charge.



Assignments for the week of October 15, 2012 to October 17, 2012

Monday - Notes 3/1, Section 1 Review
Tuesday - Movie - "Cells" - Questions due at end of class period
Wednesday - Notes 3/1, Go over DRA 3/1 and Section 1 Review
Thursday - No School, NDEA Fall Conference
Friday - No School, NDEA Fall Conference


Chapter 2 Notes

Test - Chapter 2 - Wednesday
Study Group - Wednesday - 8 to 8:20


The professor discovered that her theory of earthquakes
 was on shaky ground.



Assignments for the week of October 8, 2012 to October 12, 2012

Monday - Collect "You Are What You Eat" Lab, Finish notes 2-2, Go over DRA 2-2, Go over Section 2 Review, Quiz - 2-2, Reinforcement - Building Blocks and Amazing Discovery.
Tuesday - Go over Reinforcement, Science Puzzlers, Chapter 2 Review.
Wednesday - Test - Chapter 2
Thursday - Go over Tests, Read - Chapter 3, Section 1 (pages 58-67), DRA - 3/1 (#'s 1-8)
Friday - Notes 3/1, DRA (9-27).
 


When the smog lifts in Los Angeles , U.C.L.A.



Assignments for the week of October 1, 2012 to October 5, 2012

Monday - Finish notes on 2/1, Go over DRA 2/1, Quiz 2/1, Read 2/2 (Pages 42-47), Vocabulary Activity - It's Alive (#'s 1-16
Tuesday - Go over Vocab Activity, Notes 2/2, DRA - 2/2 (#'s 1-22)
Wednesday - Notes 2/2, DRA - 2/2 (#'s 23-40), Vocab Activity - Do Back side "Word Find"
Thursday - Notes 2/2, Section 2 Review (#'s 1-12)
Friday - Lab - You Are What You Eat (analysis of the Hi-Liner Diner menu).


Chapter 1 Notes

Test - Chapter 1
Tuesday - September 25


A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months

Assignments for the week of September 24, 2012 to September 28, 2012

Monday - Go over Section 1/4 Review, Chapter Review, Test on Chapter 1 on Tuesday
Tuesday - Test, Chapter 1
Wednesday - Go over Chapter 1 Test, Read Chapter 2, Section 1 (pages 36-41), Notes 2/1, DRA - 2/1 (#'s 1-6)
Thursday - Notes 2/1, DRA - 2/1 (#'s 7-19)
Friday - Movie - Adapting to the World + Questions due at the end of the movie


When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.



Assignments for the week of September 17, 2012 to September 21, 2012

Monday - Go over metric measurements, Review metric prefixes, Quiz I - metric prefixes, Lab - metric measurement.
Tuesday - 7th grade science NWEA Testing - PC Lab
Wednesday - Review metric symbols, Quiz II - Metric Prefixes, Hand in Lab II - Metric Measurement, Notes 1/4, DRA (15-29)
Thursday - Hand back quizzes, Lab - Measuring Liquid Volume
Friday - Hand in labs, Go over DRA, Quiz - 1/4, Section 1/4 Review


To write with a broken pencil is pointless.



Assignments for the week of September 10, 2012 to September 14, 2012

Monday - Collect Organizing Data graphs, Finish notes on 1/2, Go over DRA 1/2, Quiz - 1/2, Read Chapter 1, Section 3 (pages 18-21), Notes 1/3
Tuesday - Finish Quiz 1/2, Notes 1/3, DRA - 1/3 (#'s 1-9)
Wednesday - Go over DRA, Quiz 1/3, Notes 1/4, DRA 1/4 (#'s 1-8)
Thursday - Notes 1/4, DRA - 1/4 (#'s 1-14)
Friday - Notes 1/4, Lab - Metric Measurement (length), Quiz on Monday - metric symbols



"I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me".

Assignments for the week of September 3, 2012 to September 7, 2012

Monday - No School - Labor Day
Tuesday - Go over Questions 1-13, Hand in Power of the Pyramid Graphs and Questions, Notes - 1/1, DRA (#'s 7-10). Quiz - 1/1 on Wednesday.
Wednesday - Finish notes 1/1, Go over DRA - 1/1, Complete Section 1/1 Review, Quiz - 1/1, Read Section 1/2
Thursday - Go over quizzes, Notes 1/2, DRA - 2/1 (#'s 1-14)
Friday - Activity - Organizing Data (Questions 1-7 + line graph).


"You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish"

Assignments for the week of August 27, 2012 to August 31, 2012

Monday - Introductions - Seating Chart - Course Syllabus - Classroom Management Plan
Tuesday - Classroom Scavenger Hunt, Hand out Textbooks - Lab work Intro - Power of the Pyramid
Wednesday - Power of the Pyramid - Figure %age of Population
Thursday - Power of the Pyramid - Bar Graphs
Friday - Power of the Pyramids - Questions 1-13, Read Chapter 1, Section 1 (pages 4-9), DRA 1-1 (#'s 1-6)