Seventh Grade Science

Assignments List, Descriptions, and Links
May 7th
Students created a periodic table as a class. Students also created superheroes based on the elements using the following two websites:
Periodic Table with Key
Periodic Table Elements Description
Requirements:
-Your superhero, his powers, and his vehicle must be labeled
-You must include a 2-3 sentence description of your superhero's personality and powers.
-Your superhero's powers must be related to the way your element is used in real life. 
-The front of your booklet must have the element's name, symbol, atomic number, atomic mass, protons, electrons, neutrons, state, and whether or not it is a metal.

May 3rd
Students made a periodic table on their own by cutting out the symbols and putting them in order.
May 1st
Students made molecules out of marshmallows.
April 27th
Students worked on a worksheet to practice identifying subatomic particles.
April 25th
Students began the introduction to Chemistry by taking notes on subatomic particles
and by completing the worksheet that introduced them to the Periodic Table of Elements.
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April 23rd
Students took a test on Earth's Changing Surfaces
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April 19th
Students reviewed for their test on Earth's Changing Surfaces
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April 17th

- Students were given time to finish their fossil flip books from Friday

- Students watched the Time Scale Video and answered the following questions:

        1. What is the name of the oldest geologic eon?

        2. When did vertebrates start appearing on earth?

        3. Put the appearance of these organisms in order: Dinosaurs, Vertebrates, land plants, microscopic         

         organisms, invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, primates

- Students watched the Geologic Time Video and discussed the following question:

        1. How do fossils help scientists to date rocks and trace the evolution of species?

- Students completed the Geologic Time Scale Activity (Click on Science 7--> Click on "Geologic    

  Time Scale"

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April 13th

- Students went to the Prehistoric planet website and examined the fossils contained in each "layer." Students then created a "fossil flip book"for each "layer."Use the links below to find images for your layers:
Invertebrates 
Fossil Fish
Amphibians 
Reptiles
Dinosaurs (Click on the top left link "Dinosaur Tracks and Fossils" for more)
Early Mammals

- Students chose three images from the Natural History museum website and answered the following questions for EACH image.

a. A sketch of the fossil

b. Age of the rock where the fossils were found

c. What the organism looked like before it was a fossil
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April 11th

  - Students sequenced images describing how a fossil is made. Images can be found here.
  - Students made fossils using clay, plaster of Paris, and plastic animals.
  - Students answered the following questions about the fossils they had made:

1. Who is in your group?
2. How did you make your fossil? What does this tell you about the way fossils are actually made? (Four sentences)
3. What sorts of items were easy to make into fossils? What sorts of items were difficult to make into fossils? What does this tell you about the parts of an animal that usually are made into fossils? (One sentence per question)
4. What are some problems that might make it difficult for a fossil to form?
5. Sketch the items you used to make your fossils.