WELCOME TO LIFE SCIENCE Mrs Hartley Summit Hill

WELCOME TO LIFE SCIENCE! Mrs. Hartley Summit Hill Junior High 2017 -2018

INTRODUCTION: *Welcome, I am Mrs. Hartley and will be your child’s 7 th grade science teacher this year. *14 th year at Summit Hill Junior High School *Married with 3 Children *Biology Major at U. I. C. *Masters at University of Phoenix *NGSS *http: //ngss. nsta. org/About. aspx *Hobbies: Searching for new ideas to foster the love of science and spending time with my family – reading, crafting, and sports.

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR GRADE SCIENCE? TH 7 1. LAB SAFETY 2. LAB EQUIPMENT 3. METRIC SYSTEM 4. SCIENTIFIC METHOD 5. LIFE SCIENCE 6. PBL – Problem Based Learning – In place of Science Fair for academic level science classes – THIS YEAR: “GLOBAL WARMING” 7. INTEGRATION OF NGSS – Next Generation Science Standards

WHAT ARE NGSS – NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS? NGSS – Next Generation Science Standards are a new approach to look at science. It is exploring! It is asking the questions of “Why or How this occurs? ” Students are engaged in science labs and making connections to the world. Asking questions is a practice and that is what we want students to do. We want them to go out there and discover! NGSS Performance Expectations LS 1 -1. Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells, either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells. LS 1 -2. Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function. LS 1 -3. Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

WELCOME TO LIFE SCIENCE! • What is Life Science? a branch of science (as biology, medicine, and sometimes anthropology or sociology) that deals with living organisms and life processes. 1. ANIMAL AND PLANT CELL – Parts and functions 2. ECOSYSTEMS – How organisms react with their environment? 3. PHOTOSYNTHESIS – How do plants make their own food? 4. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR/ANIMAL REPRODUCTION

CELLS! v ANIMAL AND PLANT CELL v COMPARE/CONTRAST BOTH TYPES OF CELL v PARTS OF ANIMAL AND PLANT CELL v FUNCTIONS OF ANIMAL AND PLANT CELL

ECOSYSTEMS v INTERACTIONS WITH LIVING THINGS v. COMPETITION WITHIN ECOSYSTEMS v. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS v. FOOD WEB/CHAINS v. WATER PURIFICATION AND HUMAN IMPACTS v. RESOURCES EFFECT ON ORGANISMS

PLANTS AND ANIMALS PLANTS v. PHOTOSYNTHESIS – How plants make their own food? What structures are needed to produce their own food? v. PLANTS PROCESSES ANIMALS v. ANIMALS AND BEHAVIOR v ANIMAL REPRODUCTION

PBL FOR THIS YEAR IS… This year our PBL – Problem Based Learning will be centered around how to save our polar bears. v. PROBLEM: Global Warming is eliminating our icebergs and in turn food supply for our polar bears. v. GOAL: To come up with a solution to help this dilemma. v. DESIGN: Students will design their own iceberg made of biodegradeable materials to hold 25 grams of weight and be able to float in a pool of water. v. RESEARCH PAPER + ICE BERG = MORE TO COME IN SCIENCE CLASSES!

LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT YEAR! v Thank you so much for coming to Curriculum Night this year at Summit Hill Junior High School. v. Looking forward to a wonderful year in science. v Contact information: shartley@summithill. org 815 -469 -4330