Making DNA

Mitosis

Cell cycle and mitosis modeling

Photosynthesis relay

Posing: the sun and chloroplast in the leaves

Egg-speriment

Observing osmosis and diffusion

Collaborative learning

Sharing information about photosynthesis  and cellular respiration 

Microscope fun!

Learning how to focus using the adjustment knobs and objective lenses

Mass and triple beam balance practice

Volume lab

Learning how to use eye droppers, beakers, and graduated cylinders accurately and safely

Solar power at the zoo

Alternate energy sources

How do populations increase or decrease in size?

Creating math equations and explaining how population change.

High vs low carrying capacity within an ecosystem.

 Can you list the differences?

Oh Deer!

 Modeling how populations change based on amounts of bare necessities available and natural disasters.  Our Earth has natural ways of keeping ecosystems balanced.

Students were either deer or bare necessities.  If the deer found what they needed they were able to reproduce, if not they returned to being a bare necessity.

Modeling digestion

 

During our digestion unit students simulated the path that nutrients take through the digestion system. This included modeling mechanical and chemical digestion.

Plant cells under a microscope

Students used iphones and ipads in class to capture images they saw through a microscope of plant cells. Students isolated one cell and documented its parts on a lab drawing.

Dissecting a flower

Students dissected a flower and had to identify and label all the parts.  They later categorized the parts that were male and female.

Vascular celery?

While learning about the difference between vascular and nonvascular plants, students documented changes in their experiment through time lapse video, still pictures, and compared results over a 48 hour time span.

Rubiks mania!

A group of 7th grade students accepted the challenge of the rubik's cube and then decided to challenge themselves and solve many other mind bending games.