Grade 7 Week 18: Control - The Nervous and Endocrine Systems

Our final day studying the human body will be spent examining the systems responsible for control and response.

What are the structures and functions of the nervous system?
What are the structures and functions of the endocrine system?



This week's contract choices deal with the nervous and endocrine system and their disorders.



Grade 7 Week 17: Reproductive System

This weeks topic:  the Reproductive System

What are the structures and function of the the reproductive system?



This week's contract focuses on the reproductive system and disorders of the system.

Oceans Webquest

No contract this week.

This week we focus on our new groups in an Oceans Webquest.

Questions are answered by filling out your projects form.

View spreadsheets of answers:

Coastal Development

Submarine Canyon Sludge

Kelp Forest Facial

Coral Reef Vacation

Sargasso Sea Salvage

All That Glitters

Running On Empty

Geoengineer Me a Copyright


Groups composed of a biologist, chemist, physicist, and geologist will come together on the final days of the week to decide the fate of the project. Then try to convince me. Good luck.

Grade 7 Week 16: Protection the Immune and Integumentary Systems

Our next step in the Human Body unit is to research those systems that protect us from a harsh world.

What are the structures and functions of the immune system?
What are the structures and functions of the integumentary system?
How do they work together to stop invasions of your body?

Contract Week 16 has you researching the two systems or disease of the systems.

Grade 8 Week 16: Ocean Resources

We finish out the ocean's unit by examining how we use the the ocean's resources.


What resources do we get from the ocean?
What are the effects of taking ocean resources?

Contract Week 16 already has a good start on a wikipage for each ocean animal effected by humans (check out the one on Elephant Seals (yeah, I did that one, but the one on Sharks is equally good(even better))), the use of aquaculture, and a visual on ocean pollution.

Grade 7 Week 15: The Circulatory System

Next stop on the Human Body Unit tour is the Circulatory System

What are the structures and functions of the Circulatory System?

Hey Lydia!  Check this out!  Taylor in 9th hour brought in this deer heart.  Check out the dissection and description before Kenny gets at it.

Contract Week 15 has you researching the circulatory system or a disease of the system.

Grade 8 Week 15: Oceans near the shore.

This week we begin the end of our Oceans unit.  We have looked at the systems and physics of the oceans.  Now we investigate the many, varied environments of the ocean.  We start near shore.

What are the characteristics of near shore environments?
What changes would animals living there need to deal with?
What adaptations do animals that live in a splash zone or intertidal zone have to survive there?

 

What different environments do you find as you go out on the continental shelf?
Describe those environments.

Contract Week 15 has you research how humans affect coastal waters, create a poster for our ocean environments wall, or design your own contract.