The fourth quarter is underway, and the 8th graders have been finishing up their Heredity and Genetics unit, and will be studying for the upcoming AIMS. The 7th graders have started an Ecology unit, and are learning about ecosystems and biomes. Please remember to check in with your student about assignments and projects-- both grades had an opportunity for extra credit before the April break, and the 7th graders will have a Biome project after AIMS that will require them to do a little outside-of-class research.

These are some pictures from a recent 8th grade lab, where the students were modeling the structure of DNA.

The last quarter of the year is starting, and we have lots of fun work ahead of us in Science!

8th Grade: We've started our Genetics unit, and are diligently studying the principals of heredity. Ask to see your students' pedigree charts in the next couple weeks-- students will be tracing the inheritance of various traits through families of pandas, pea plants, and puppies (and various other creatures real and imagined). Homework will include Punnett Squares and AIMS review, so dig out those old Science notebooks.

7th Grade: We're studying fossils and geologic time at the end of our Earth Science unit; the last (and upcoming unit) will be Environmental Science. We have a couple of large projects coming up, so remember to be consistently keeping up with your daily assignments.

3rd quarter report cards come out on Thursday, 11 March. All assignments for the 3rd quarter, including the extra credit assignment, were due Friday, 05 March. All assignments beginning Monday, 8 March are counted in the 4th quarter grade.