Hi Scientists;
Here's the link to this week's test along with the access code. https://www.classroomclipboard.com/854670/Test/42EA549A-9696-441A-8F4A-423917B2D0A8
Access Code: 3CSMSG
The eleven Key Terms for this week are:
1. Central Nervous System
2. Wave
3. Cerebellum
4. Cerebrum.
5. Optic nerve.
6. Motor nerves.
7. Medulla.
8. Rod cell.
9. Cone cell.
10. Lense.
11. Concussion
Week 27b – 03.25 / 03.26 – Thursday / Friday – 2021
“YouTube” ad (this morning) – Dent extractor using a suction cup … suction is NOT a real force! Why not???(A vacuum doesn’t “suck” – Although, I do suck at basketball - )
Week 27 Reading
03.26.2021
Middle School science covers a broad range of topics. Sometimes it’s helpful to work backwards from the concepts we want to understand to where we began. That’s often what we do as we approach the last weeks of school for the semester; see where we’ve been and where we’re going.
Our goal is to have a good foundation for understanding life. That’s a big, complicated subject and we wanted to give some background on how we know what we know (the Scientific Method) and the conditions that make life possible (Earth Science)
The story brought us all the way back to the Big Bang – the time when our universe began. A bit if understanding about light helped us know that our universe probably is about 14 billion years old.
Knowing about the four fundamental (basic) forces of nature helped us get a clearer picture of how “simple” atoms like Hydrogen can combine – through fusion in stars – to make all the heavier elements necessary for life.
By the time our solar system, and Earth, formed – about 4.6 billion years ago, all the elements needed for life were available. Those elements are like the building blocks and cells - the basic units of life - put together and rearrange those building blocks in endlessly complex ways.
When the elements are rearranged, it’s called a chemical reaction, and none is more important than photosynthesis for setting the stage for complex animals.
It took billions of years for the oxygen released into Earth’s atmosphere to build up enough for life to take advantage of this for releasing energy from chemical bonds.
As life evolved from one-celled organisms it diversified into several kingdoms. (Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, and Bacteria.) Our branch of this evolutionary tree, the animals, breath the oxygen in our atmosphere and humans are capable of affecting every other branch on the tree of life, which is why we incorporate ecology into our studies.
We spend time learning about our species in detail and try to get a picture of how our eleven body systems work together, and work with our environment, to sustain life. While we study systems and species individually, it’s always with an eye towards the connections between subjects, species, the non-living systems of our planet, and the living system – of which we are a part.
Week 27 – Rover Assignment –
Options:
Turn in either a drawing of, or a picture of, your “Egg drop” experiment from earlier in the week. OR turn in a picture of your budget for your Egg Drop. OR, if you did not have the packet and you were unable to do the experiment; answer the following questions and turn them in via email.
Test link: https://www.classroomclipboard.com/854670/Test/1290719B-266B-443D-AE98-7312271FB692
Access Code: W6JMLFC
March 11 / 12 – Week 25b – Science –
The CAPITALIZED TERMS are our KEY TERMS for week 26.
Remember: Test 24 and 25 are, currently, “live.” Please be sure to take the tests before 03.13.2021 – Saturday at 9:00 pm. All of the material covered in the on-line assessments is in our text and notes.
