Ch. 5 Study Guide

November-December: 7th Grade Life Science News

Our students continue to amaze me with their creativity. Cell Analogy brochures were excellent! The cell was compared to a beehive, an amusement park, Callaway Gardens, a fort, an airport, a skate park, a zoo to name but a few. Hopefully, you got an opportunity to read the tour guides of the cell analogies when they were on display in the Library. These projects made an excellent culmination to our unit on the cell.

Content in November - December will include:

-Chromosomes                                                                 - Evolution

- Genetics                                                                        - Adaptation

- Mutations                                                                      - Natural Selection

- Genetic tools                                                                 - Fossil Record

Fun activities will include:

Taking a class survey of traits, Easter egg genetics, performing Punnett Squares to predict phenotypes and genotypes of offspring, karyotyping activity, reading pedigrees, growing albino corn, finger-printing, simulating beak adaptataions, natural selection in mice, making a fossil mold and a cast, and of course, Jeopardy games (with the theme music).

• Check out the website below to move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree and after that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into the microscopic world of the cell.

  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html