Snow Day Announcement - 7th and 8th grade

I hope you are enjoying our first snow day.

In terms of the various assignments you are working on. If you have the materials you need (like the UPCO book for the 8th graders), then do the work.

Otherwise, I'll be extending deadlines.

See you Thursday.

Product Claim Lab - 7th Grade

Here is the stuff you need for the Product Claim Lab.

The instructions for the lab are here:
Product Claim Lab Instructions

And here is the presentation I showed in class to help you get some ideas for possible experiments:

8th Grade UPCO Work for Next Week

Here is the UPCO work for next week.

8th Grade Science
Mr. Ardito

Homework:
Body Systems in the UPCO textbook

Please work through the following chapters and sections of your UPCO books. In addition, please makes notes about questions you may have about what you are reading.

This work is due by Friday November 20, 2009

Digestion
Chapter 8, sections A-G

Transport
Chapter 9, sections A-Q

Regulation
Chapter 12, sections A-P.

Getting Into Cells

It is now time to focus our study of homeostasis to cells.

So, your homework for Wednesday is to answer two questions:
1. How do cells fulfill the 10 Characteristics of Life (MRLSTRNGER)?
2. How do cells manage homeostasis.
For this second question, you should focus on a specific kind of cell (e.g., the leaf cell of a potato plant), since all cells have different needs.

To help, you might organize yourself around these questions:
a. What is the cell you are studying?
b. What does it do?
c. Does it work with any other cells to accomplish its purpose?
d. What are the conditions in which it lives?
e. How is your cell well adapted to its environment?

Have fun!

Observations - 7th Grade Homework

Your homework for Tuesday, September 9th:

Spend about 10 minutes someplace. While you are there, make 10 good observations and write them in your notebooks. These observations should be written on the left 1/3 of your notebook page from Friday.

Multiple Intellgences Survey Results

You have each taken the Multiple Intelligences Survey in class.
Now, we want to collect the data from everyone to see what we can learn about ourselves as a group.

Please click on the link below and enter your data. When you are done, press submit.
Multiple Intelligences Data Collection

On Monday, we'll look at the trends that we can see.