Grade 7 Week 17: the Nervous System

How do our bodies respond to internal and external stimuli?

What are the structures and functions of the nervous system?

Contract Week 17 has you researching the nervous system or a disorder of the system.

Grade 8 Ocean Biomes WebQuest

Assume the role of an ocean scientist as you and your group decide the fate of slated government projects that affect the oceans.

The Ocean Biomes WebQuest is an active review of our targets that has you assume the role of an ocean scientist(biologist, chemist, geologist, physicist) with a group of of scientists working on a project for the government.  Use and add to resources built over the five years of this dynamic activity to find solutions to issues regarding our us of the oceans.  Submit forms for your individual research and present your group findings this Friday.

Grade 7 Week 16: Protection

What are the structures and functions of the immune system?
How does the immune system interact with the other systems of the body?

What are the structures and functions of the integumentary system?

How does the integumentary system interact with the other systems of the body?




Contract Week 16 has you researching the immune or integumentary system or disorders of the system.

You should also be collaborating with your group to create a presentation and exam notes on The Human Body.

Grade 8 Week 16: Our Use of Ocean Resources

Describe ways we use the ocean as a resource.

What are the effects of this use?

How do we balance the need for these resources and the damand it puts on the ocean?



Contract Week 16 has you researching our influence on the oceans' organisms and other resources.

This week we will highlight the ups and downs of our use of ocean resources by watching the Nature program "Crash:  The Tale of Two Species" and research Super Survivors, or living fossils like the Horseshoe Crab.

Grade 7 Week 15: Transport

What are the structures and functions of the circulatory system?
How does the circulatory system interact with the other systems of the body?






Contract Week 15 has you researching the system or disorders of the system.

Grade 8 Week 15: Ocean Environments

This week we look at conditions at the varying zones of our oceans, the animals that live there, and our effects on those areas.

What are ocean conditions near shore?
What environments do you find near shore?
How are animals adapted to surviving ocean fluctuations in littoral(intertidal) areas?

How do conditions change as we move out to open (pelagic) ocean?

How are organisms adapted to life there as distance for shore changes?

...as depth changes?

Contract Week 15 has you looking at human influences on the shoreline, or creating a poster for the wall of a specific ocean zone.

Grade 7 Week 14: Digestive and Urinary Systems

What are the structures of the digestive system?
What are the function of those parts?

What is the function of the kidneys?

How does it do this?

Contract Week 14 has you researching the digestive or urinary system or a disorder of either of those systems.