BCWMS 7th Grade Science

Now that students have discovered that properties help us distinguish substances from one another. They are now investigating what happens when you combine substances. Students have found that certain substances undergo chemical reactions when they are combined. Chemical reactions change substances and create new substances with different properties!

Wednesday September 20th

Driving Questions: How do I make new stuff from old stuff? How is stuff the same and different?

- Check Procedure

- Activity 2.2: Investigating Solubility

- Activity 2.2: Lab Report

HW: Finish Lab Report

Tuesday September 19th

Driving Questions: How do I make new stuff from old stuff? How is stuff the same and different?

- Log-in to IQWST
https://bcpsk12.iqwst.com/

- Reading 1.2 Follow-up

- Activity 2.1: Investigating Solubility

- Activity 2.2: Designing a Procedure for Solubility Testing

HW: Finish Procedure

Monday September 18th

Driving Questions: How do I make new stuff from old stuff? How is stuff the same and different?

- Review Scientific Principles

- Reading 1.2: What makes a substance a special kind of stuff?

- Activity 2.1: Investigating Solubility

HW: Finish Reading 1.2

IQWST

Thursday September 14th

Driving Questions: How do I make new stuff from old stuff? How is stuff the same and different?

- Recap Foil and Cooper Chloride

- Do scientists make new stuff?

- Activity 1.2: How is this stuff the same and different?

- Reading 1.1

HW: Reading 1.1 if not finished in class

Wednesday September 13th

Driving Questions: How do I make new stuff from old stuff? How is stuff the same and different?

- What is stuff?

- Activity 1.1: Can I make new stuff from old stuff?

- Driving Question Board

HW: None

Welcome to the BCWMS 7th Grade Science page! We are so excited to start the year and are looking forward to engaging students in scientific inquiry! This page will serve as another place to get information about your student's 7th Grade Science experience. We will post agendas and other pertinent information to this page. We will also be posting pictures of what is going on in 7th Grade Science. This will be a great place for you to see what is going on in class and get an idea of the things your student is doing in class on a day to day basis. Please like this page and share it with other parents so they can like it as well! It is our goal as 7th Grade science teachers to keep you as informed and involved as possible in your student's learning! Thank you and again we look forward to a great year!

7th Grade Science Team
Brett VanDeRoer, Justin VandePol, and Jamie Dennett

We have spent the past week or so reviewing some important 5th and 6th grade science topics. One of these was potential and kinetic energy. Students were testing the height of rebound of different type so for balls and determining how potential and kinetic energy were involved. You may have seen them playing a game called coaster creator where they need to design a working roller coasters using the ideas of potential and kinetic energy!

7th graders start taking the MSTEP May 8th. Our science MSTEP will be May 15th and 16th. Make sure you student is getting rest and gives their best effort!

As we wrap up our Chemistry Unit students spent a few class periods last week trying to figure out ways to separate four different substances from a mixture. They needed to design a way to get these substances out of the mixture based on the physical properties of these substances. Many students came up with great ideas for how to get their mixture separated but found that it was a very difficult task. Students used physical properties like magnetism, particle size, solubility, and others to separate iron, sawdust, sand, and salt from a mixture. Students needed to use their chemistry knowledge in order to figure out the best way to get everything back out of a mixture that was all mixed up!

Friday March 10

- Finish Starter

- Finish Creating your Chemistry Review Game (Submit link on schoology when you are done.)

- Review game with partner/small group

HW: Finish your review game

Thursday March 9

-Absent yesterday: Create a Chemistry Review Game - dropbox when finished!

- If you were here yesterday: finish your game/play a friends game for review

HW: Finish your review game if you did not get it done in class (Games are due Friday when you walk into class).

Wednesday March 8 (Students on the field trip today will do this assignment tomorrow in class)

- Physical vs Chemical Change Fusion

- Practice Quiz

- Create a Chemistry Review Game

HW: None

Tuesday March 7

- Chemical Reaction Demos

- Physical vs Chemical Change Fusion

HW: none

Monday March 6th

I can...Identify when a physical or chemical change has occured.

- Go over Law of Conservation of Mass

- Mosa Mack Physical vs Chemical Change

HW: None

Thursday March 2nd

I can...investigate what happens to substances during a chemical reaction.

- Chemical Change (Law of Conservation of Mass Lab)

HW: none

Wednesday March 1

I can...display my understanind of ECM, physical/chemical properties and other chemistry concepts.

*Bring a book to read or HW in case you finish your Quiz early

- Chem Quiz #2

- Periodic Table Puns/Crossword

HW: none