Investigations in Science 7 – May 11, 2018

Announcements:
Interims were yesterday. Please check your child’s grades on the Portal.

7 to 7 is next Friday. There are so many activities planned. If your child

signed up to attend, your child will be receiving more information next week.

There are so many Socs’ and Greasers walking the halls today. The 7th
graders did an amazing job dressing up in style to celebrate Outsiders Day. I will
upload some photos to my blog today.

We will be beginning our last unit either late next week or early the week
after. The new unit will focus on Earth’s history and biological evolution. Look in
your child’s agenda book for when they can clean out their science section. They
should not be cleaning it out just yet, but very shortly.

Graded Assignments Turned in this week:

 Lab: Tiny Dots
 Lab: Microarray
 Grade Reflection Sheet
 Me: A Punnett Square

Coming Up:
Topics:
 Gel Electrophoresis
 RFP

Dates:
 May 1-14 – No Tardies Challenge
 May 7-11 – Staff Appreciation Week
 May 11 – 7th Grade Outsider’s Day
 May 17 – Last Day of After-School Activities
 May 18 – Spanish Field Trip 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
  May 18 – 7th Grade Lock-In from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
 May 22 – MAP-M
 May 23-25 – Chesapeake Bay Field Trip
 May 28 – No School
 May 29 – National Junior Honor Society Ceremony @ 6:30 p.m. in the
Cafeteria
 May 30 – Spring Band Concert @ 7:00 p.m. at Sherwood HS
 May 31 – Invention and Engineering Field Trip to Carderock
 June 4 – 8th Grade Cruise
 June 7 – Grandparents Day 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. in the cafeteria
 June 8 – 8th Grade Promotion @ 5:00 p.m. at Blake HS
 June 11 – Fun Day
 June 11 – 8th Grade Hershey Park Trip
 June 14 – Diversity Day
 June 14 – End-of-the-Fourth Marking Period
 June 15 – Early Dismissal (12:30 p.m.)
 June 15 – Last Day of School (change from original calendar due to “snow”
days)
 June 26 – Report Cards Mailed Home

What we did this week:

This week was full of lots of schedule changes and seeing some classes a lot
while other classes barely at all. Each period of the day did slightly different
things but the overall idea was the same. We finished our Microarray Lab and our
Asexual Reproduction Olympic Games.
We completed a summative. Students thought of one specific trait and used
what they know about their parents’ traits, to create a possible Punnett square. If
students wanted a fictional character, that was offered to them as well. They will
use their own traits along with their parents to predict the genotypes of everyone.
Then we practiced using a micropipette to move a small amount of liquid from
one location to another. Using a micropipette is not as simple as it first appears.
The practicing of this technique helped so that our lab results were more accurate
when we complete a gel electrophoresis lab. This was our day to make all of our
mistakes. 

Have a great weekend!