Cell Sizes

Use this tool Click Here to compre the sizes of different cells!

Look at the difference between the Amoeba and the Bacteria E. Coli!



Comments please...

Mr. F :-)

Virtual Pond Water

Hi All!

You have to try this and learn about some critters tht live on ponds! Maybe we'll see some soon in science class?!

CLICK HERE

Letter E slides!

What are some things we can learn about microscopes by looking at this slide? What lessons did you get on the first day?

Mr. F :-)

Click Here to play some games to learn our science vocabulary!

Mr. Forde :-)

Don't click on this microscope!

Bubonic Plague Video

Click Here to watch the movie from lesson 33...from one to Another about Bubonic Plague.



Click here for a more detailed article on bubonic plague.

Cell Unit Starts- try these links!

Hi All!

After the break we begin our cell unit! Here are some cell links to get your mind pre-loaded.

1) Cells Alive

2) Great cell diagrams- http://http://www.exploringnature.org/db/detail.php?dbID=21&detID=56

3) Other great diagrams- http://waynesword.palomar.edu/lmexer1a.htm

4) Organelles Quiz- http://www.biology4kids.com/extras/quiz_cellorgan/index.html

5) Cell Organelles Table http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/cells/sciber/orgtable.htm

6) Cell Size Simulation


Also, we will have new groups and science will be switching schedules with LA. Don't be confused. We'll get you all to the right place! :-)

Mr. F :-)

My Elf!

Don't stress out...just study! :-) H-Body Test Wed.

STUDY For the human body test on Wednesday!

Mr. F :-)

Einstein Speaks out!

High Blood Pressure experiment

Heart Sounds Link!

Click here to go to web site that features healthy and not so healthy heart sounds!

Mr. F :-)

Happy Belated Bday!

Meet Lyuba...

Locker Stopper Slide Show

Good Quote....

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" -- Marianne Williamson

What do you think that means to you?

Where did I hear this recently?

Mr. F :-)

Locker Stopper Advocate article!

Click Here to read the advocate article!

Mr. F :-)

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Another birthday girl!

The week of 11/1

We started off the week by handing in our "Feel the Beat" lab reports and then inheriting one million dollars from our Great Aunt Lily! We had to decide how we would spend the money. Should we donate to education, research or treatment organizations? I have been enjoying reading your two paragraph essays on the choices and trade offs.

We then explored pumps to learn more about how they work and how they may relate to the human heart. Here is a team investigating a pump and discovering how to make it work best.



Here is a scientist sharing her theory of what she thinks is happening inside of a pump to make it work at our class interactive whiteboard (thanks GE!).



It was a wet but interesting week in science class!

Circ System - Study Jam!

You'll like this and learn a lot from it!!

Click Here!!


Mr. F :-)

Learn the Heart Parts

Here is a cool way to learn the parts of the heart!

Click Here

Try this virtual stethescope.

Click Here

Enjoy! Mr. F :-)

Math Path 2010!

Flow of Blood Through the Heart!

Go to this web site and watch the animations of the blood flowing through the heart.

Here is an article that goes along with it.

Mr. Forde :-)

Kids Health Heart Movie

Click Here for the kids Health Movie on the Cardiovascular System.

Bromothymol Blue?

These two kids are blowing into a solution of bromothymol blue.

What do you think will happen next?
What does this indicate?
Why will it happen?
What will happen if we leave the flask to sit overnight?

Sorry I had no pictures of us...I was to busy during the lesson! :-)

Mr. F :-)

Blood Circulation!

It was great watching you all rotate around the classroom today as blood cells! I hope that you learned something about blood flow and the job of blood...while having a good time.

See this chart for a different view from your textbook.



Do you have any comments about the activity? Mr. F :-)

Chicken Wing Dissection

Recent Happenings...

There's a new sheriff in town!



Beaker and Medium Wyane hanging out together!

Try knee surgery!

HI All!

Want try your hands at performing knee surgery?

Go for it by clicking here!



Mr. Forde :-)

Chicken Wing Dissection will be Mon 10/16

Review these links scientists!

Watching this will help you be successful when you get to the chicken wing dissection!
Chicken Wing Dissection Link

This is a demo site which you try out for free...click on the word DEMO on the top right part of the screen and give it a try!
Froguts Virtual Dissection


Mr. Forde :-)

Our demo digestion

Have you been thinking about your experiment for Wednesday? What factor will you test? Will you change the size of the tablet? The amount of acid (vinegar)?

I can't wait to see your ideas!

Mr. F :-)

Click around this Web site to learn more about the human body during our human body unit!

Mr. Forde :-)

Cool link...

Click on this link to get access to a cool web site about the human body.

Write me a response with one or two questions you have about the human body!

Mr. F :-)

Clay Bodies!

Juggler??

Human Body tracings!

test proctors!

A special thank you to Dilbert and Beaker for helping to proctor the exam today!

Here they are hard at work.

Alcohol's Effect on Teens

Click here for information on the effect of alcohol on teens. This site is chock full of great information from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Test Tomorrow!

Make sure you review all notebook contents and your vocab section for tomorrow's test! I would look at the on-line notebook for ALL diagrams and any BOLD PRINT words!

Good Luck!

Mr. F :-)

Happy B'day!

Original Data Toss Experiments

Hi All,

Here are a few of the pictures I took on Friday of the Black Team conducting their data toss experiments. They were very unique and interesting!







Great work guys!

Mr. F :-)

Beach Clean UP Success!

I am so proud of the 14 black team members who attended the Int'l Coastal Beach Clean UP event yesterday! We were one of the largest groups there!

Data Toss Lab Report!

Click Here for the lab report guidelines. Or see them below!

You did most if the work on the lab sheet in class. You collected your data on Friday.

Now you must create a bar graph of your data and and write a conclusion as per the description on the sheet above.

Best of luck and let me know how I can help.

Mr. F :-)

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What does Mr. Forde want to see in the data toss experiment lab report?

1) Cover Page- Title of the Experiment should be centered and name, group should be in the lower right side of the paper. (5 pts.)

2) The Question: What were we trying to find out? Write your testable
question. (5 pts.)

3) The Hypothesis: What did you think was going to happen
and why? (5 pts.)

3) The Materials: What did we use during the experiment. (5 pts.)

4) The Variables: What were the Dependent and Independent
Variables? (10 pts.)



5) The Procedure: List the steps that we took to set-up and continue the experiment. (10 pts.)

6) The Data: Include the data table from your lab experiment. This will need to be re-written or typed. (20 pts.)

7) Data Analysis: Create a bar graph of the data collected daily. Must be done on graph paper or EXCEL. (20 pts.)

8) Conclusions: What did you learn by doing the experiment?
Did the results support your hypothesis? What were the possible sources of error? This should be 8 to 10 sentences! (20 pts.)

Data Toss - day 1

Who can tell me what the different jobs are of these three parts of the brain?

(HINT: use the online textbook for help.)

Mr. F :-)

Brain Movie

Watch for extra credit and post a few things you learned!

http://www.researchchannel.org/mov/uw_brainw_250k_qt.mov

Mr. F :-)

Advisory Scavenger Hunt!

Also...who is this mystery birthday girl?

Touch Sensor Experiment!

Kids in action!

Review of the Week of 9/13

Hi all,

This was a great week full of hard work and fun experiences!

Kids were working very hard as evidenced by the following images. They were not staged! :-)





We learned about the work of Dr. Goldberber towards finding a cure for a terrible disease called Pellagra. (Ask your child for details.) This highlighted how he studied people scientifically.

We then all received virtual headaches (by drinking different mixes of lemonade) and then some of us were cured while others received a placebo! Here is a VERY sloppy graph of the class data which clearly shows that the medicine worked while the placebo had an odd "placebo effect" on the some of the students!



Next we did our touch sensor experiment. See the movie above to see some of the students on action. This tested the sensitivity of our sensory neurons! The data clearly showed that when the toothpick were .7 cm apart they were hard to detect as two and often felt like one toothpick! We learned that the one toothpick trials were a control to help us compare our data.


Beaker was very proud of you all this week!



Mr. F :-)

Sorry about the headache!

Hi Guys!

I am sorry you had to have a headache yesterday. (lightly sweetened lemonade) I think it was a great SIMULATION of a CLINICAL TRIAL. It also allowed us to learn more about the effects of a PLACEBO. Now, remember, a placebo is used to ensure that the cure is coming from the medicine and not some other source. That's why they use them in these kinds of studies. I am also sorry that so many of you suffered side effects! :-)

Today we will be poking each other with toothpicks in another human experiment...fun fun fun! :-)

Mr. F :-)

Pellagra Story Video

Click here to see the video that we watched in class today.

Mr. Forde :-)

Text book issues....

HI Guys!

Thanks so much for all of the GREAT postings over the looong weekend. I know that several of you are hving textbook problems.. Maybe this post will help. If not...lets talk at school.

The address for the text book is http://www.sepuplhs.org It should look like this when you get there.



Then you click on the blue/green button that says "online textbook" on the right.



Now you enter the id and password in the spaces (see below).




The next screen you should see is below. There are obviously two text books available. We are using the life science one. The unit we are in is "Studying People Scientifically" so click on that heading.



Once you click on the right topic you will see our lesson titles, "Saving Fred" etc. Click on the Saving Fred title and it will download a PDF file directly to you computer called ebook.pdf.



File management on your computer can become an issue. I would start a folder on your computer called "7th grade science" and save the pdfs into that folder. You should 'save as" and rename them something better, live "savingfred.pdf" so they are easier to access later.

I hope this helps! :-) Let's talk in class tomorrow.

Mr. F :-)

A group of sci students!

Extra credit POST- Sci Method

Watch the video below and write a 3 - 4 sentence reaction for a little extra credit!

Mr. F :-)

Analysis Question #4

Hi Guys!

Some of my classes did not get to finish question #4 of the analysis on page A-7. Please complete the question under question 1B in your notebook.

In order to do the question you may need to go the on-line notebook....SEPUP TEXTBOOK. Enter your login and password to get to the SAVING FRED lesson! :-)


Best of luck!

Mr. Forde :-)

Kids Saving Fred!! :-)

Post a comment on my Wall Wisher.

Click Here to give it a try!

You will double click, type a comment and then I will approve it for the wall. (Like on the blog it may take a while to show up. Don't keep re-posting.)

Mr. Forde :-)

We MUST save BOB!! (I MEAN FRED!)

Bob (AKA FRED) is in danger of drowning!

Next week we will come up with ways to save him...I hope!

Mr. Forde :-)

SEWER LICE found in Stamford classroom!!

Hee Hee Hee....


This will teach us not to jump to conclusions. Life can be complicated and tricky?!

Mr. F :-)