Thursday Class

First things first...Sorry about no post yesterday. The power outage made that kind of hard!
Yesterday we did two things:
1. Took a Quiz.
2. Had a discussion about our grading. Here is that presentation!

TODAY we started our station work on symbiosis and general ecology. Our resource page for this group of stations can be found by clicking here.

A reminder that the lab report and eco-column for bottle biology will be graded on MONDAY!

Tuesday Class

Today in science we did two things:
1. Did a short activity on Abiotic vs Biotic factors in an ecosystem. The sheet for this activity can be found by clicking here.

2. Finished up our bottle biology activity. (Although we will be making observations each day on our bottles)

The bottle biology eco-column and lab report will be graded next Monday when each student takes the oral examination on their project.

Monday Class

Today in science we did two things:
1. CPS review session on some of the basic principles of ecology.
2. Almost finished our Bottle Biology Project. Tomorrow students will be given approximately 25 minutes to finish their bottles and lab report.

Congrats goes to Mr. Malefyt's 6th hour for winning the CPS competition among Mr. Malefyt's 4 science classes with a score of 82%!

Thursday Class

Today in class we continued our bottle biology project. Students finished part 1 and began the construction process of part 2. Many groups also started the technology piece of the project as well. Information can be found on our Bottle Biology Page.

Wednesday Class

Today in science we started our bottle biology project. Students got in their groups and worked on part 1. Information for bottle biology along with the handouts are available on our resource pages or by clicking here.

THERE IS NO HOMEWORK OTHER THAN BRINGING MATERIALS FOR BOTTLE BIOLOGY!

Tuesday Class

Today in science we did two things:
1. Did a presentation on a general ecology introduction. This presentation and the notes for it are available online at our resource pages or by clicking here.

2. Introduced the bottle biology project that we are starting tomorrow. There is a resource page set up for this on our general ecology resource page.

PLEASE BRING IN EMPTY 2 Liter POP BOTTLES TOMORROW!

Monday Class

Today in science we did a flip flop from last week Friday. See Friday's post for detailed information!

HOMEWORK: WE NEED TWO LITER BOTTLES ON WED.

Friday Class

Today in science Mr. Wandel's class made a lab report on the Gold Fish Lab using Google docs. The two templates to use for this are the spreadsheet template for the graph and the lab report template for everything else.

Mr. Malefyt's class did an outdoor ecology scavenger hunt focusing on abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem. A copy of this activity can be found by clicking here.



Have a great weekend everyone!
THERE IS NO HOMEWORK!

Thursday Class

See yesterday's post....we just switched the two classes around.

There is NO Homework

Wednesday Class

Today in science the two classes did different things. Tomorrow both classes will flip-flop to the other teacher/room/activity.

Mr. Wandels Room: Technology Training on how to use google doc's for science. Students also worked on a pre-ecology unit online survey.

Mr. Malefyts Room: Gold Fish Lab. This lab can be found online.

Tuesday Class

Today in science we took our year long pre-test. This test will be used to gather data on what the students know and don't know in the topic areas that we are going to study this year.

THERE IS NO HOMEWORK!

Monday Class

Today in science we created a classroom social contract for the year. This is a very important piece to the success of this years classroom environment!

THERE IS NO HOMEWORK!

Friday Class

Today in science we did two things:
1. Did a classroom environment building exercise.
2. Introduced our new netbooks to the students. Each student received their google account information along with instructions for use.

There is NO HOMEWORK!

Thursday Class

We hope you had a great first day of school yesterday!
Today we did two things:
1. Learned names!
2. Did a lab on cohesion and surface tension. The purpose of this lab was to introduce how we do labs/activities in 7th grade. A great introduction! The lab can be found online by clicking here.

There is NO HOMEWORK!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to a new school year!