9/30-10/4           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 2 -Continue with Characteristics of Life Station Lab HW Top 10 Killers reading and questions due on Wed, 10/2
Tuesday	DAY 3 -Omnivore's Dilemma -Begin Intro. pgs 1-13 -Food For Thought questions and discussion HW Top 10 Killers reading and questions due on Wed, 10/2
Wednesday	DAY 4 -Push-Ups! -Go over Top 10 Killers HW 1. Take a picture with phone of a living thing interacting with something non-living         2. Homeostasis Reading and questions 1-5
Thursday	DAY 5 -Top-down Web Living Things -Discuss picture of living thing interacting with non-living thing -Go over Homeostasis reading and questions 1-5 HW Read Homeostasis of the Eye Lab
Friday	DAY 6 -Balancing on One Foot Activity and pulse activity -Positive and Negative Feedback Loops podcast and top down web -Homeostasis of the Eye Lab HW None

9/23-9/27           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 3 -Picture Day! -Omnivore's Dilemma -Pre-Reading Exercise -Check Brine Shrimp plates and record data HW Prepare for Quiz
Tuesday	DAY 4 -Quiz on Microscope and Scientific Method (open notes) -Share Compiled data and write a conclusion based on all groups' data -Glue Monsters-Are They Alive? Demo/Phenomenon HW Viruses...Are They Alive?  Reading and questions, due on Thursday
Wednesday	DAY 5 -Push Ups! -Begin Characteristics of Life Stations Lab HW Viruses...Are They Alive?  Reading and questions, due Tomorrow
Thursday	DAY 6 -Continue Stations Lab -2-Column Notes and sorting activity -Go over Virus HW HW Finish Stations Lab Questions, due Tomorrow
Friday	DAY 1 -Homeostasis -Balancing on one foot Activity

9/16-9/20           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 4 -Practice with Microscopes and look at various slides -DOT Day Activity -How to draw and label what you see under the microscope -How to take pictures with cell phone through microscope lens -Finish analysis of scientific method problem with group and share HW Essential Questions: Microscopes and Cells
Tuesday	DAY 5 -Begin Brine Shrimp Lab with groups -Determine: problem, gather materials, set up data table, design experiment, conduct research -Brine Shrimp Vocabulary sorting activity HW Amazing Brine Shrimp
Wednesday	DAY 6 -Push-Ups! -Use microscope to look at plates to determine and record # eggs on each HW Amazing Brine Shrimp
Thursday	DAY 1 -Set up Brine Shrimp experiment, using Scientific Method -Go over Amazing Brine Shrimp HW None
Friday	DAY 2 -look at plates and record data -Conduct research -Take a short quiz on scientific method and microscopes -Abiotic Factors HW None

9/9-9/13           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	DAY 5 -Finish Sawdust Critical thinking/problem solving activity -Finish Science Chat
Tuesday	DAY 6 -Life Science Pre-test on google forms -Classroom and Lab Expectations HW Finish expectations
Wednesday	DAY 1 -Scientific Method Processes Review -Discuss Classroom and lab Expectations -Subversive grouping activity -Push-Ups! and goals HW A BeriBeri Case (on google classroom). Submit by Friday, 9/13
Thursday	DAY 2 -Scientific Method History video (13 min.) -Scientific Method Sorting activity in groups -Scientific Method Story Analysis HW A BeriBeri Case (on google classroom). Submit by Friday, 9/13
Friday	DAY 3 -Begin Omnivore's Dilemma, discussion -Pre-reading exercise -Choose a Meal from Ms. Pratt's Restaurant Menu

9/2-9/6           Agenda and Assignments

Monday	Closed for Labor Day
Tuesday	-Welcome to Grade 7 Life Science, White Team -New Schedule -Meet your new team classmates and teachers -Seating plan and Introductions -Science Chat! Lab Stations HW Have welcome letter signed and returned by Friday, 9/6 Welcome Letter
Wednesday	-Warm-ups (begin and explain) -Push-ups and push-up journal
Thursday	-Science Chat Lab Stations -Add Blog and Classroom -Riddles
Friday	-Sawdust? Critical Thinking Activity -Science classroom tour and expectations