Investigations in Science 7 May 27, 2016

What we did this week:

Because of our change in schedule of PARCC, I have seen different classes
for different amounts of time throughout the week. Below is a generalization of
what most of the classes completed however some classes are further behind than
others and will complete some of these activities next week.
This week, we finished up about mass extinctions. Students each
researched a mass extinction and created an online Google slides presentation to
share their research with their peers. Then we did a gallery walk of one anothers
slides. Students filled out a graphic organizer of the different mass extinctions in
our DesignFolio.
Friday we will start learning about evidence of common ancestry. To start
with we will learn about biological similarity. We had to tackle two big words:
homology and analogy. Homology refers to traits that are inherited by 2 different
organisms from a common ancestor. Analogy is a similarity due to other factors
such as location of animals (having fins to swim) and not a common ancestor.
Students completed an interactive to look at examples of both.

Announcements:
None
Coming Up:
Topics:
Evidence of Common Ancestry
Dates:
May 30 No School
June 1 - National Honors Society Ceremony @ 6:30-7:30
June 3 - SSL Hours due

June 15 - 7th Grade Fun Day

June 17 - Last Day of School Half Day (This date is specific to Farquhar
because of the modernization. It gives teachers an extra day to pack up
their classrooms.)
June 17 - Time Capsule Ceremony @ 8:30-9:30 am