Class Work

7C Revision & Stuff

Feb 6th

For today, we will be completing two different activities. They are:

(2) Complete the following blog post for Student Lead Conferences

On Thursday the 21st of February, you will be undertaking your Student Lead Conferences. For Science, you will need to do the following:

(1) Choose 1 piece of work you have completed in Science for any of the reasons below:

A – The work shows the progress you have made in a particular subject.

B – The piece highlights an area that you really want to improve in.

C – You are very proud of an aspect of the piece of work.

D- You really enjoyed creating this piece and want to talk about the process with your parents.

(2) For this piece of work – you will need to do the following as a blog post:

a) Describe what the piece of work is about.

b) Take a picture of that piece of work or include a link to that piece of work

c) Explain why you chose this piece of work

It needs to look good as you will be having this on your blog and will show your parents this piece of work during Student Lead Conferences

7C Chem Activity

Jan 7th

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Today, we will complete a few different activities. The main one will be what’s below.

Atoms, Compounds & Mixtures Blog Post

Today, we will be making a blog post. The following needs to be included.

What is an atom? Describe the different parts and state where they can be found in an atom
What is an element? Give three examples of an element and give a use in the real world for each of these elements
What is a molecule? Give three examples of a molecule and give a use in the real world for each of these elements
What is a compound? Give three examples of a compound and give an use for each one
What is a physical change? Give an example
What is a chemical change? Give a few different examples

Once finished – post this on your blog. Make is look reasonably presentable.

7C Science – Yeast Investigation

Nov 21st

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For today, we are going to complete a Yeast Investigation. For today – we MUST complete the following sections from the Google Doc emailed to you:

Experiment Question
Variables
Variable Sum Up
Prediction
Apparatus
Procedure/Method

Basic Pointers

We will be working in groups of 2 or 3.
We will have the following equipment: 4 test tubes, warm water with yeast, 4 balloons, water with live yeast, water bath
Each test tube should have the same amount of yeast and water
One test tube will only have yeast and water.
You will change what you put into three test tubes. You either change the amount of substance you are putting in the test tubes (5mL, 10 mL, 15mL etc) or changing the liquid.
We will measure the results by how long it takes for the balloon to rise – or how high it rises in 10 minutes in the water bath

This section needs to be finished before the next lesson on Tuesday 27th of November.

7C Heart Dissection

Nov 1st

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Below are some facts on the heart -

The Heart:

Pumps blood around the body
Atrium pumps blood to and from the lungs
Ventricles pump blood too and from the body
Valves makes sure the blood travels in the correct direction

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/pharm/hyper_heart1.html

For today, we will be doing the following:

Working in groups of 3 or 4 students. At least 1 student needs to be willing to cut the heart.
Taking many pictures of the heart with either your phone, camera or webcam
Make a keynote, prezi or PPT (also willing to hear other options) showing the different parts of the heart and explaining what they do (include pictures)

Instructions

Cutting the Heart & Taking Pictures

In a group you will have a heart, some dissection tools and a camera. Your group will need to take good clear photos that show the important features of the heart. Take plenty of pictures so that you have some to choose from.
You should take pictures that illustrate as many of the following as possible:

The heart is a muscle.
The heart has veins and arteries.
The heart has 4 different chambers – which is which?
Some parts of the heart wall are thicker than others – which parts
The blood flows along a path through the heart
The heart contains valves.

Presentation

Your presentation (either PPT, Keynote or Prezi) needs to include the following in this order.

What is a heart? Briefly explain what the heart is and include an uncut picture of the heart.
Where are the heart’s veins and arteries. Briefly explain the difference between a vein and artery. Also show a picture of a vein and artery
What is the Atrium? Briefly explain what an atrium does. Include a picture of both the left and right atrium.
What is the Ventricle? Briefly explain what the ventricle does. Include a picture of both the left and right atrium
What are heart valves? Briefly explain what the heart valve does. Include a picture of the heart valve
How does blood travel through the heart? Briefly explain how blood travels through the heart. Include a picture of this if you can
Interesting Stuff. Include some interesting things you found out about the heart. The only fact you need to include is the thickness of different parts of the heart.

When finished – upload it to your blog!!

7C Science – Do You Have The Heart For It??

Oct 30th

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Today – we will be looking in a bit more detail about how the heart works and how we can measure the speed of the heart. First – I suggest you watch THIS small video clip from Brainpop to answer the questions below:

Q1) What is the heart and roughly how big is it?

Q2) There are 2 pumps found in the heart. What is the name of the 2 main parts of the pump?

Q3) Briefly describe what happens to blood when it first enters the right pump to the time it leaves the right pump? Where is the blood traveling to?

Q4) Briefly describe what happens to blood when it first enters the left pump to the time it leaves the rleft pump? How is the blood different compared to the blood that first enters the right pump?

Q5) Include a simple diagram that describes what happens for Q3 & Q4.

Q6) How long does it take for blood to travel around your body?

Q7) Why does our heart beat faster?

Once we have completed the questions above, we will then start a Heart Rate and exercise experiment. Have fun!!

Grade 7C Science – Todays Lesson

Sep 26th

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Dear Students,

We will be completing 3 different activities today. They are:

1) Study Guide for Test which can be found HERE

Other work can be found HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

2) Digestion Poster

3) Your assessment task. Information can be found HERE and more instructions can be found HERE

7C Food Test Blog Post

Sep 13th

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In class yesterday, you started you blog post on your food test. It’s due on Thursday 20th of September. If you can’t find the PPT with the instructions (I Emailed It To You!!!) then they are below:

Write a post answering the following information:

How long did you spend altogether on this assignment?
List some things that you have learned about food and digestion from completing this assignment
What about the assessment are you especially proud of?
What about the assessment would you do differently if you did it again?

Have fun!!! I’ll be visiting your blogs to make sure that it is done….

7C Nutrition Work

Sep 4th

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Hi All,

We have quite a bit of work to do today. It’s our job to fill up a large board outside is Science by showing what we are currently doing in class. It sounds like heaps to do – but with 16 students and one teacher we’ll get it done in no time.

You might not know this – but we are using the inquiry method. It goes something a little like this:

Awareness & Understanding -> Action -> Reflection

We will look mainly into Awareness & Understanding and start to look at Action. Our work will be completed mainly by Comic Life. The following needs to be completed:

What Nutrients are found in Food?

Fat
Oil
Carbohydrates
Calcium
Vitamin C
Fibre
Vitamin B
Potassium
For Each One – Include the following: What Nutrient Do You Have? Why is this Nutrient needed by the body? Which foods have this nutrient? Pictures of this Nutrient and Foods High in this Nutrient. REMEMBER – USE COMIC LIFE!!

Food Tests. There are 4 Food Tests. We show how the food tests are completed. Each needs A Comic Life Sheet. Instructions are below.

Fat Test: State Equipment Needed. Tell us how to complete the Test. Show/explain a positive/negative test. Include some pics of you doing it!! Hint – it goes Oily!!
Protein Test: State Equipment Needed. Tell us how to complete the Test. Show/explain a positive/negative test. Include some pics of you doing it!! Hint – it goes Purple
Starch Test: State Equipment Needed. Tell us how to complete the Test. Show/explain a positive/negative test. Include some pics of you doing it!! Hint – it goes Black
Glucose Test: State Equipment Needed. Tell us how to complete the Test. Show/explain a positive/negative test. Include some pics of you doing it!! Hint – it goes Red

Our Foods Comic Life Page.

I’ve Got The Following Foods. Cup Noodle, Coolish, Pringles, Chewing Gum. This is 4 peoples chosen food. Have A Pic of you with the food on comic life. Tell us why you chose this food. Tell us what Nutrients you think this food will have lots of (Fat/Protein/Starch/Glucose).

Heading. I need one person to complete to use comic life to make a heading called “Our Food Journey”. Make it look nice please!! It needs to be reasonably large. That means it needs to be a couple of pages in size!!
Food Pictures. Get some food pictures of good/bad foods. About 1/3 a Page is great. Also include MLA for where you got the picture.
To Be Continued Comic Life Page. Make A Page That States “To Be Continued”. This will be for our Reflection Section
Inquiry Cycle A4 Comic Life Poster. It includes the following in a Circle with Arrows… Awareness & Understanding -> Action -> Reflection
Questions in Comic Life. Make the following Questions in Comic Life & Print Them Out