This week was a short week. We finished our discussion on the energy transfer in the atmosphere and the students have an assignment due on Thursday. Next week we will continue our discussion of the atmosphere by looking at air currents and global winds.
This week is a short week for science, Students are working on their organ project where they will each be researching an organ of the body and determining its importance to our lives. This will be the last assignment for life science except for their final exam....
This week we are studying the atmosphere. On Monday, we learned the layers of the atmosphere and what takes place in the different layers. On Thursday, we will look at energy transfer in the atmosphere and how the warmth from the Sun heats Earth. We will continue next...
This week we finished up chapter 14 learning about the skin, the largest organ of the body. The skin is part of the integumentary system and plays a very important role in keeping us healthy by maintaining homeostasis with temperature regulation, moisture, and keeping...
Cranium, scapulas, patellas, phalanges, patellas, phalanges. . . Who recognizes this song? These are the scientific names for the head, shoulders, knees, and toes. We have begun chapter 14 and we are studying the skeletal system, muscular system and the skin. During...
On Monday we took our chapter 13 test. The students did very well on this test. This week we then proceeded on our dissection path and dissected the fetal pig. Pigs are very similar to humans in that they are mammals and have many similar characteristics. This was a...