Transcript What is 7th Grade Science - Mount Logan Middle School

What is 7th Grade
Science
What is Science?
• Science involves more than the gaining of
knowledge. It is the systematic and
organized inquiry (Hot Air Balloon) into
the natural world and its phenomena.
Science is about gaining a deeper and
often useful understanding of the world.
- Vanderbilt University
Ivory Soap?
Racetrack Playa?
Tornado Tube?
Density Bottle?
Ocean in the Bottle?
What is Science?
• Science is a way of knowing, a
process for gaining knowledge and
understanding of the natural world.
What is science to you?
Think, Pair, Share
• Write the first word that comes to your mind as you think
about science? The person at the right of the table should
write their answer on line 1 of the magnetic slate. The
person sitting at the left of the table should write their
answer on line 2 of the magnetic slate.
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Intended Learning
Outcomes (ILO’s) of 7th
Grade Science
• Use science process and thinking skills.
• Manifest science interests and attitudes
• Understand important science concepts
and principles.
• Communicate effectively using science
language and reasoning.
• Demonstrate awareness of the social and
historical aspects of science.
• Understand the nature of science.
The Amazing Cube
• Introduction: Students will apply
inquiry skills and utilize evidence to
predict the unknown.
• Materials: Per table of 4 students
– 1 Colored Cube With Numbers Web Link
– Directions on Powerpoint
– Hints
Amazing Cube Rules
1. Place the numbered cube in the
center of your table. You may not
touch, turn, lift, or open the cube to
reveal what is on the bottom.
2. You may not use the help of another
group until the teacher says so.
Amazing Cube
2. What is on the bottom of the
cube?
You must discover the answer
WITHOUT LOOKING at the bottom
of the cube.
Amazing Cube
3. Predict what is on the bottom of the cube
by making careful observations of the
cube (within the rules) which provide the
EVIDENCE needed to make your
HYPOTHESIS. Write your hypotheses and
evidences down on a piece of paper so that
you may share those with the rest of the
class.
Evidence Examples: 1. The number on the top right
of each side = # of letters in the name.
2. Names on opposite sides begin with the same
letters.
Amazing Cube
4. Pretend as if you are now attending
a professional conference of
scientists with your team.
Share your and Hypotheses and
Evidences with everyone else.
Amazing Cube
5. a. Analyze the Evidences and
Hypotheses made by others.
b. Build a conclusion as a group and
share the conclusion with the class
when called upon.
Amazing Cube
6. Discuss what is fact and what is
inference in this activity.
Amazing Cube
7. Turn the cube over to reveal what is
on the bottom.
Was your conclusion correct?
What if the teacher collected the cubes without ever letting you see
what was on the bottom. Would you ever know the answer? How
is that like real science?
We apply evidence to make inferences in science. The unknowns in
science are explained through evidence and experimentation. We
cannot always see the exact answer.
7th Grade Core Learning
Standards
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STANDARD I Structure of Matter: Students will understand
the structure of matter.
• STANDARD II Structure of Earth: Students will understand
the relationship between properties of matter and Earth’s
structure.
• STANDARD III Structure of Cells and Organisms: Students
will understand that the organs in an organism are made of cells
that have structures and perform specific life functions.
• STANDARD IV Heredity and Adaptations: Students will
understand that offspring inherit traits that make them more or
less suitable to survive in the environment.
• STANDARD V Classification of Living Things (Structure):
Students will understand that structure is used to develop
classification systems.
Can you guess the theme for this years learning?
Theme
• The theme for Seventh Grade Science is structure.
– The concept of density is used to help understand the sorting and
distribution of matter on the structuring of Earth.
– Seventh graders should begin to relate the structure of Matter to the
properties of materials.
– The seventh grade core emphasizes “structure” as an organizing
concept to understand Matter.
– All substances are structured or made of smaller parts and are
themselves parts of larger wholes. When parts come together, the
whole often has properties that are very different from its parts
(Cells).
– Inherited traits are carried on structures called genes (Heredity).
– Structure is used to classify plants, animals, rocks, stars, and other
things. Classification is a way to give a unique description to all things.
Cool Projects (see examples)
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Term 1: Classification Project
Term 2: Mass the Gas Model
Term 3: Earth Model
Term 4: Cell Model
Term 5: DNA Bead Model, Super
Species Project
• Term 6: None
Cool Classification
Labs/Activities
• Classification
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Life non/life scavenger hunt
Trees of MLMS
Crayfish Dissection
Is it Alive?
Vertebrate/Invertebrate Exploration
Smarty You!
Cool Structure of Matter
Labs/Activities
• Spaghetti or Snickers Tower
• Penny Lab
• Homemade Root beer and Popcorn
States of Matter)
• Penny Boat Lab
• Volume/Density Labs
• Mass/Weight Labs
• Density Manipulative and Demos
• Experiments
Cool Structure of Earth
Labs/Activities
• Welcome to Earth Foldable
• Clay Model of Earth
• Journey to the Center Writing and
Movie.
Cool Structure of Cells and
Organisms Labs/Activities
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Levels Drawing
Squid Dissection
Sheep Eye (Mammal) Dissection
Onion and Cheek Cell Lab
The Classroom Cell
Organelle Commericial
Group Systems Powerpoint.
Cool Heredity and Adaptations
Labs/Activities
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DNA Extraction
Oh Baby Inherited Traits Lab
Peppered Moth
Hidden Butterfly
Puzzle Activity
DNA Bead Model
You and Your Genes