Mason County Middle School 7th Grade Science

Monday: NO SCHOOL LABOR DAY

Tuesday

• Current Science Magazine Directed Reading Activity
• No Homework 

Wednesday

• Bill Nye Food Web
• Food Web Reading Activity(Complete for HW)

Thursday

•  Deadly Connections Lab
• HW: Food Webs

Friday (Substitute Teacher)

• Eyewitness Reptiles
• Food Chains Worksheet

Monday

• How Many Bears? Carrying Capacity Lab at the Amphitheater
• Exit Slip: Abiotic/Biotic Tweet (Write a tweet that has 140 characters or less (spaces and letters) describing biotic and abiotic factors. Turn this in before the end of class.
• HW: Ecosystem Homework Sheet

Tuesday

• Oh Deer!! Limiting Factors lab at the Shelter
• Reflective Thoughts Exit Slip
• HW: Energy Pyramid Trophic Levels  and Food Web

Wednesday

• Eyewitness Survival
• Survival Reading Comprehension Sheet
• HW: Animal Adaptations

Thursday

• Population Sampling Lab with Beans
• Population demonstration (Stork and Grim Reaper)
• HW: Human populations

Friday (Substitute)

• Eyewitness Bears
• Animal Adaptations Reading Comprehension

Monday

• Bill Nye Populations (Answer questions during the video)
• Abiotic and Biotic Factors Review
• Abiotic and Biotic Factors ID Lab
• HW: What’s Living?

Tuesday (Sub Teacher!!!)

• Directed Reading Chapter 1 (Answer questions and turn into the teacher at the end of class)
• HW: Ecosystem of my Room

Wednesday

• Science Fair Topic Sheet(Students research science fair topics and complete the topic sheet)
• HW: Finish Topic Sheet (Due Friday 8/27 with parent signature, 100 point grade!!!)

Thursday

• Abiotic/Biotic Factors Scavenger HuntDemonstration of Populations
• HW: Abiotic/Biotic Factors Reading Comprehension

Friday

• Ecosystems at School Lab
• Ecosystems Grouping Activity

Monday:

•  Density of Cylinders Lab (1st, 3rd, and 5th)
• Density of Water Lab (6th)
• HW: Finding Density

Tuesday: (MY SCIENTIFIC SUMMER IS DUE!!!)

•  Density of Cubes Lab (1st, 3rd, and 5th)
• Density of Water Lab (6th)
• EXIT ACTIVITY: Density Quiz (10 density problems to solve independently)
• HW: Puzzling scenarios

Wednesday:

•  Bill Nye Measurement
• Bad Hair Day Article and Reading Activity
• HW: SpongeBob Controls and Variables

Thursday:

•  Salinity and Density Lab
• HW: Density Practice Review

Friday:

• Density Performance Evaluation

Here’s the plan for this week:

Thursday, August 12

• Welcome to 7th Grade Science PowerPoint/Trifold
• The Amazing Show of Science (Awesome teacher demonstrations to get you thinking scientifically!!)
• HW: Making Inferences Scenario Sheet (Click to download copy of homework as PDF file)

Friday, August 13

• Review Homework (10 points per day!!!!)
• Lab Safety Expectations
• Metric System Challenge
• Density of Water Lab Investigation
• HW: My Scientific Summer Assignment Sheet (Click to open PDF File of Assignment)
  • Email your completed assignment to Mrs. Bowling (Word, Publisher, or PDF) at ella.bowling@mason.kyschools.us or Turn in on August 17