Last week we were able to sneak into a computer lab to do some research for this weeks round of speeches. (Labs are full with district testing.) The kids chose a topic they were interested in and came up with three questions about that topic to research. This week will be spent writing, practicing and giving the speeches. I imagine we will have to spill over into next week because of the field trip scheduled for Thursday.

Enjoy the Spring!

Hello everybody! This week as we continue Looking for Pythagoras we will be focusing on square roots. We will be especially interested in understanding how to work with square roots which are irrational.

We've concluded our WWI unit and will learn this week how the Treaty of Versailles created conditions for Hitler's rise to power. We will spend the next 2 weeks focusing on WWII and the Holocaust with the final test scheduled for the last week of May. Here we go on the home stretch!!

This week we will do an activity to visualize how much energy is transferred between trophic levels. On Wednesday there will be a group quiz. On Friday we are scheduled to be in the computer lab to work with a simulation that demonstrates how biotic and abiotic factors can limit the population growth of milkweed bugs.

Populations and Ecosystems homework RA5, Limiting Factors, will be handed out on Monday and is due back by Friday.

Thursday is zoo day - students will have an assignment to complete while visiting each of the zoo trails.

To increase content understanding visit the 7th grade science web site at the URL listed below.