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Ms. Tina Mott
7th Grade Science
THORNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
THORNTON,   CO   80229
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        WELCOME TO THORNTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
                              7th GRADE SCIENCE
                                      2006-2007

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THE WEEK OF JUNE 4th

Monday
     Final Exam for 7th grade science

Tuesday
     Return all papers/folders/portfolios/journals

Wednesday
     No school for 7th grade students.

Thursday
     7th grade award ceremony
     Last day of school

Friday
     SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER - HAVE A GREAT ONE!!

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THE WEEK OF MAY 28th

Monday
     NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day

Tuesday
     Dichotomous Classification

Wednesday
     Zoo field trip

Thursday
     Biological Classification Worksheet
     Last progress report is due

Friday
     Lima Bean Investigation
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THE WEEK OF MAY 21ST

Monday
     Cycles of Matter

Tuesday
     Decomposer

Wednesday
     Population and Ecosystems
     District Common Assessment

Thursday
     Classifying Organisms

Friday
     Dichotomous Key
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THE WEEK OF MAY 14th

Monday
     Food Chain/Food Web Game

Tuesday
     Studying Populations

Wednesday
     Bollman Science Presentations
     Mini-Beasts movie

Thursday
     Barr Lake Field Trip

Friday
     Predator/Prey Performance Assessment

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THE WEEK OF MAY 7th

Monday
     Can drought make species evolve?

Tuesday
     Science Vocabulary

Wednesday
     My Animal Energy Pyramid with Food Chains & Web
     Folder check

Thursday
     Magic School Bus's:  Who gets Eatten?

Friday
     Ecosystem Game

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THE WEEK OF APRIL 30th

Monday
     Pick your animal
     My Animal

Tuesday
     Finish My Animal (ecosystem research)
     Helping Hands graph

Wednesday
     Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Thursday
     Class Energy Pyramid
     Signed progress report due

Friday
     TMS Inservice Day
          No school for students

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THE WEEK OF APRIL 23rd

Monday
     Among the Chimpanzees

Tuesday
     Prepare biome presentations

Wednesday
     Biome notes

Thursday
     Should I Swim Here?  BSI guest speaker

Friday
     Ecosystems

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THE WEEK OF APRIL 16th

Monday
     Organize folders
     Ecosystem dictionary

Tuesday
     Ecosystem dictionary

Wednesday
     Populations and Ecosystems

Thursday
     Populations and Ecosystems

Friday
     No School
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THE WEEK OF APRIL 9th

Monday
     In class work day

Tuesday
     Populations and Ecosystems pretest
     All human body projects due today
          1.  My Human Body Journal
          2.  Donation Crossword
          3.  My Body Poster

Wednesday
     The Universe Within

Thursday
     The Universe Within

Friday
     District in common release day
          No school for students

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THE WEEK OF APRIL 2nd

Monday
     Donar Alliance Guest Speaker

Tuesday
     Set up journal
     Frog Observations - day 1

Wednesday
     Frog Observations - day 2
     Frog dissection

Thursday
     Frog Observations - day 3
     The Universe Within

Friday
     Frog Observations - day 4
     The Universe Within

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THE WEEK OF MARCH 26th

Spring Break - Have a nice relaxing time.

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THE WEEK OF MARCH 19th

Monday
     Chicken Wing Dissection

Tuesday
     Reading and Writing CSAP

Wednesday
     The Nervous System

Thursday
     Reading and Writing CSAP

Friday
     Reaction Time
     Brain Observations
     The Nervous System Constructed Response

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THE WEEK OF MARCH 12th

Monday
     The Muscle and Skeletal Systems
     TODAY IS THE BEGINNING OF OUR 3rd AND FINAL TRIMESTER OF THIS YEAR!!

Tuesday
     Structure and Movement

Wednesday
     MATH CSAP

Thursday
     MATH CSAP

Friday
     Muscle Fatigue

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THE WEEK OF MARCH 5th

Monday
     Kidney Observations
     Digestion and Excretory Constructed Response
     Slippin' and Slidin' Graph

Tuesday
     Line Graph
     Study Guide for Human Body

Wednesday
     District Human Body Common Assessment

Thursday
     District Human Body Common Assessment
     ALL TRIMESTER TWO WORK MUST BE IN BY TODAY

Friday
     Teacher Work Day
     No school for students

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THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 26th

Monday
     Pulse Rate

Tuesday
     Heart Observations
     Circulatory System Constructed Response
     Digestion Movie

Wednesday
     The Digestive System
     The Excretory System

Thursday
     RAFT - oxygen
     Progress Reports due
     Journal Check

Friday
     A Walk Through the Gut

TRIMESTER TWO ENDS NEXT WEEK - GET ALL YOUR WORK IN!!

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THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 19th

Monday
    NO SCHOOL - PRESIDENT'S DAY

Tuesday
     The Circulatory System

Wednesday
     School wide field trip -
          play at Horizon High School

Thursday
     Students will register for 8th grade classes
          during science today.

Friday
     Blood Types Lab

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THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 12th

Monday
     Differentiation - Notes and Lab

Tuesday
     Respiratory System Vocab

Wednesday
     Breathing Rate and Lung Capacity

Thursday
     Lung Disection Demo
     Respiratory System Constructed Response

Friday
     Levels of Organization Quiz
     My Body - Respiratory System

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THE WEEK FEBRUARY 5th

Monday
     Biological Science Initiative Guest Presentation
     Smooth Moves

Tuesday
     Clean out folders
     Update portfolios
     Set up Human Body Journal

Wednesday
     "In the Womb"

Thursday
     Vocabulary and Card Sort

Friday
     Differentiation

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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 29th

Monday
     Punnett Squares
     Heredity Homework

Tuesday
     DNA Dan

Wednesday
     Genetics Guest Speaker

Thursday
     Human Genetic Disorders
     *****PARENT - TEACHER CONFERENCES*****
                   TONIGHT !!!!!!!!!!!

Friday
     District In-Common Release Day
     No School for Students

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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 22nd

Monday
     See Your Own DNA

Tuesday
     CELA Testing
     Mythbusters movie

Wednesday
     Human Inheridence Guided Reading

Thursday
     Bill Nye Genetics Movie

Friday
     Baby Bunnies

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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 15th

Monday
     No School - MLK day

Tuesday
     Cell Division Movie and Crossword

Wednesday
     Genetics Reading

Thursday
     DNA labeled Glossary and Notes
     Genetics Movie

Friday
     Heredity Readings
     Hexter 3 grade reports sent home
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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 8th

Monday
     Brain Power - CU guest speaker

Tuesday
     Cell Division Reading

Wednesday
     Cell Division Notes

Thursday
     Mitosis movie
     Mitosis/Meiosis Venn Diagram

Friday
     Cell Division movie

HEXTER 3 GRADES WILL BE ENDING NEXT WEEK.

MAKE SURE ALL OLD WORK IS TURNED IN NO LATER THAN
          ****Thursday, January 18th****
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THE WEEK OF JANUARY 1st

Monday
     NO SCHOOL - Happy New Year

Tuesday
     SNOW DAY

Wednesday
     Work/make-up day.

Thursday
     Cell Division Glossary

Friday
     SNOW DAY
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THE WEEKS OF DECEMBER 18TH AND DECEMBER 25TH

N0 SCHOOL - WINTER BREAK - SEE YOU NEXT YEAR
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THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 11th

Monday
     Disease Pamphlets

Tuesday
     Disease Presentations

Wednesday
     Disease Presentations

Thursday
     Disease Presentations

Friday
     Coordinate Graph
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THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 4th

Monday
     Disease Research

Tuesday
     Disease Research

Wednesday
     Disease Research

Thursday
     Disease Pamphlets

Friday
     Disease Pamphlets
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THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 27th

Monday
     Patient Zero

Tuesday
     Contagious Town Meeting

Wednesday
     What is Infectious Disease?

Thursday
     Preventing Diseases

Friday
     Non-Infectious Disease
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THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 20th

Monday
     Movie

Tuesday
     Movie

Wednesday to Friday
     NO SCHOOL - THANKSGIVING BREAK
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THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 13th

Monday
     Cell Analogy

Tuesday
     Cell Analogy

Wednesday
     Cell Comparison

Thursday
     Diversity of Life District In-common Assessment

Friday
     Movie
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THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 6th

Monday
     Cell Packet

Tuesday
     Cell Packet

Wednesday
     Cell Packet

Thursday
     Cell Packet

Friday
     NO SCHOOL - VETERAN'S DAY
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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 30th

Monday
     Minipond Safari

Tuesday
     Organism Notes

Wednesday
     Mid-Sum Exam #3

Thursday
     Cheek Investigation

Friday
     Cell Packet
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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 23rd

Monday
     Minipond Safari

Tuesday
     Organism Notes and Sorting Activity

Wednesday
     Mid-Sum Exam #3
     Cell Movie

Thursday
     Cheek Investigation

Friday
     Begin our Independent Cell Unit

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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 23rd

Monday
     Looking at Elodea

Tuesday
     Paramecium

Wednesday
     Microscopic Life - Compare & Contrast
     Response Sheet

Thursday
     Microscopic Organisms

Friday
     Minipond Safari
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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 16TH

Monday
     No school for students - District Inservice Day

Tuesday
     Focal Plane
     Progress Reports

Wednesday
     Work Day
          - students can make up missing labs
          - student may redo any work with a poor grade
     Teacher/Slippin Graph

Thursday
     Brine Shrimp Alive!!
     7th grade assembly at 10am
     Signed Progress Reports due today

Friday
     Mid-Summative Exam #2

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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 9TH

Monday
     Vocabulary
     Living or Non-living
     Mid-summative exam #1
          No progress reports today!!

Tuesday
     Microscope care and use

Wednesday
     Microscope Images
          Parent-Teacher conferences 4:30 to 7:30

Thursday
     Field of View and Focal Plane
          Parent-Teacher conferences 4:30 to 7:30

Friday
     TMS inservice - no school for students

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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 2ND

Monday
     What is Life?
     Progress Reports

Tuesday
     Five Material Observation - day 1
     Life Notes
          TODAY ENDS HEXTER 1 WORK

Wednesday
     Five Material Observation - day 2
     Life on Earth
          ALL HEXTER 1 WORK IS DUE TODAY
          PROGRESS REPORTS ARE DUE TODAY

Thursday
     Five Material Observation - day 3
     Life in Different Environments

Friday
     Life Vocabulary
     Set up mini-ponds
     Living or Non-living homework
     There will be a quiz on Monday

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES ARE NEXT WED & THU
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THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25TH

Monday
     My Plan - (Student Created Investigation)
     Progress Reports

Tuesday
     Graphing of My Plan

Wednesday
     Scientific Design - SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Thursday
     Hill Climb Constructed Response
     Progress Reports and all make up work is due.

Friday
     Diversity of Life
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THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 18TH

Monday
     Brewing/Energy Graphs
     Progress Reports

Tuesday
     Variables Formative Quiz
     Work Day

Wednesday
     Unusual Absences
     Progress Reports due

Thursday
     What's the Cause

Friday
     NO SCHOOL - Teacher Inservice Day

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THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11TH

Monday
     Working with Questions

Tuesday
**7:15am detention for students with 0's on thier PR**
     Question & Investigation
     Pill Bug Investigation Constructed Response

Wednesday
     Graphing

Thursday
     Unusual Absences

Friday
     What's the Cause

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THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 4TH

Monday
     No School - Labor Day

Tuesday
     Turn in Safety Slacker and Safety Contract
     Safety Quiz
     Practice Drills

Wednesday
     Rubrics
     Asking About Life
     Intro to Science Summative Quiz

Thursday
     Observations and Inferences
     Signed Progress Reports - due

Friday
     Mystery and Bio Boxes
     Thinking About Inquiry

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THE WEEK OF AUGUST 28TH

Monday
     Parent Letter
     Course Organizer
     Parent Email Request - this is due tomorrow
     Student/Teacher Introduction Letters

Tuesday
     Parent Email Request is due
     Room Hunt

Wednesday
     Classroom Organization
          TMS Expectations
          Set up folders
     Safety Video - SLAMS

Thursday
     Safety Rules

Friday
     Safety Rules - Day 2
     Safety Slacker - Due on Tuesday
     Safety Contract - Due on Tuesday
     Our Safety Quiz will be on Tuesday!!!!!!

  PROGRESS REPORTS WILL NOT GO HOME THIS WEEK.

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