Class and Homework Assignments

Ms. Neece
7th Grade Science

** PPT = PowerPoint Presentation**

  START THE BODY SYSTEMS
Monday 11/10 Reward Day....Braima from West Africa gives a presentation
Tuesday 11/11 No School Veteran's Day
Wednesday 11/12 Body System carousel around the room.   Start writing about a body system, then change stations and write about another one. 

HW: Write down 3 body system questions

Thursday 11/13 Take notes on HOMEOSTASIS

HW: Define Homeostasis and give 5 examples of this.  *** you must describe what the example is AND Why the body is doing  that.

Friday 11/14 Cells into tissues into organs into organ systems

take notes on how the body systems work together

HW: Write a descriptive paragraph about a scenario where 2 body systems are working together.

   
Monday 11/17 SKELETAL SYSTEM; Notes in class.

HW: Label these parts on the skeleton: Skull, clavicle, mandible, pelvis, ribs, patella, femur, vertebra, tibia, radius, humerus, ulna, fibula, sternum, phalanges (use your text book)

Tuesday 11/18 Discuss Voluntary and Involuntary muscles........We discussed these slides

HW: Finish the table

Wednesday 11/19 Tiring Muscle Lab

HW: Answer the Lab Questions

Thursday 11/20 Reviewed cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms.

Finished Lab

HW: Finish lab & review body systems in the text

Friday 11/21 concept maps reviewing this week's work

HW: Write a paragraph describing 2 body systems working together. 

   
Monday 11/24 START DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

Take Digestive System Pre Assessment

Discuss Digestive System, Digestive System Story

HW: List the digestive system organs and tell their functions

Tuesday 11/25 Watch Digestive System Movie, Answer Questions
Wednesday 11/26 Color/Label Digestive System Diagram
Thursday 11/27 HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Friday 11/28 NO SCHOOL
   
Monday12/1 Egg & Stomach Acid Demonstration

Power Point Notes: Digestion

HW 11 Flash Cards (Instructions in the notes)

Tuesday 12/2 Peristalsis Lab

Study Guide

HW: Finish Study Guide

 

Wednesday 12/3 Review Study Guide.  Class Discussion

HW: Study Study Study......Remember, apply this knowledge to situations.....ask yourself questions to see if you really know it

Thursday 12/4 Nutrition

Food Label Guide, Food Pyramid (Find your caloric intake)

HW: Study for quiz

Friday 12/5 QUIZ
   
Monday  12/8 Cardiovascular System

Discuss the heart.  Tennis ball demonstration.  Record resting/active heart rate.  Calculate target heart rate.  Notes during discussion

HW: Have a nice night

Tuesday 12/9 Interactive Heart Transplant (use laptops in class).  A link is on my "Internet Links". Answer questions as you go, type the answers and use complete sentences.

HW: Finish labeling the heart diagram

Wednesday 12/10 Path of blood through the body. 

HW: Label the heart diagram from yesterday with arrows showing the path the blood takes

Thursday 12/11 Components of blood notes

HW: Discuss blood type with family and ask heart health history of family

Friday 12/12 Blood Bracket: Components of blood

Bill Nye video segment on blood

HW: get agenda signed next to grade in class

   
Monday 12/15 Emphysema/Asthma Straw demonstration

Breathing Notes from the book

Heimleich (Abdominal Thrust) Hokey Pokey

HW: Discuss choking with family

Tuesday 12/16 Lung Demonstration, Diagram on the board

Excretory Work Sheet

HW: Finish WS

Wednesday 12/17 Correct HW.

Virtual Pig Dissection (Online)

HW: Give 2 examples of how each body system works with another

Thursday 12/18 Locker Clean  Out

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Friday 12/19 Half Day

Holiday assignments

Monday

1/5/09

Review Excretory System

Start Nervous System

Notes on the board: Neurons, Sensory, Motor, Diagrams.

HW: give 2 examples of a motor neuron scenario and 2 examples of a sensory neuron scenario

Tuesday

1/6/09

Start  Central Nervous System

Checking Your Reflexes Lab

Optical Illusions

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/illusion/illusions.htm

HW: Finish lab questions (3rd core must also average their left hand and right hand trials)

Wednesday 1/7/09 Memory/Stroop Test

Endocrine System Notes

No HW

Thursday 1/8/09 Male reproductive system

No HW

Friday 1/9/09 Female reproductive system

No HW

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