Life Science

January 15, 2025

It’s a new semester and the students are excited about animals. They have even asked to which phyla lice belong. The answer is Arthropoda. They are in the class Insecta. I did some additional research and learned there are 4 subclasses of lice and they are divided by the host they live on. Human lice have their own subclass. This is just an example of the fun things we are learning. We are currently learning about invertebrates and when we finish this chapter, we will do our first dissection — the earthworm, which is in the phylum Annelida (segmented worms).

Life Science

Life Science

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....

Life Science

Life Science

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...