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Click here to download the Science Grade Level Expectations (GLE's). (It's a 780 KB file.)
6th Grade Science
We will start our year off by studying volcanoes to highlight our visit to Mt Saint Helens during Camp Cispus. Then we will study fresh water ecology for our Water Quality project. Our water quality project is very exciting because students do real science while being trained by the North Olympic Salmon Coalition (NOSC). The data that our students collect is actually used by NOSC! A few years ago I wrote a few grants to get money to purchase water quality testing materials to have my students determine the overall health of Chimacum Creek. After getting several grants, I hooked up with NOSC and they have been helping me teach Chimacum Middle School 6th graders what is being done to restore Chimacum Creek. Chimacum Middle School 6th graders even get to collect data, with NOSC's help and training, that is sent to a lab and used by NOSC as they evaluate current restoration projects and plan future restoration projects.
For the past two year we have been able to attend the Hood Canal Youth Summits and we helped collect data for those events. This year there will most likely not be another Hood Canal Youth Summit but I got a grant to make sure that this year's 6th graders will continue to collect data along our Hood Canal sites just as the last two year's students did.
Click here for the official CMS Water Quality Project website.
For the last two thirds of the year, the last two trimesters, we will work on our Carolina Science and Technology Concepts for Middle School (STC/MS) kit on Energy, Machines and Motion. It's a fantastic physcial science kit where students will do many inquiry-based labs.
7th Grade Science
This year 7th graders will learn Life Science. Last year five of the Math and Science teachers got together to write a proposal for an HP Technology for Teaching Grant. We created a wonderful project and we got the grant! This year part of our curriculum will include that project where our 7th graders will be creating an online field guide as they catalog the flora at the mouth of Chimacum Creek. Our Life Science focus will be on the diversity of life on our planet as we explore organisms from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Students will also explore ecosystems down to human body systems.
Visit our Life Science webpage!
Last year 7th graders learned Earth Science. Students gained an understanding of energy transfers within our earth system and how denisty affects the interaction of materials within the core, mantle and crust of this planet. Students will participate in an Earth Movement project to discover the dynamics of plate tectonics. Students will learn about geology as we explore rocks and minerals.
Visit our Earth Science webpage!
This is my fourth year participating in the North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP). I attended a great two-week training at WWU four summers ago and got to work with some great science teachers and science professors studying physcial science, I attended another two-week training at WWU this summer where we focused on professional learning communities, which will continue the learning of best teaching practices well beyond the grant.
Old
Science Project Ideas
(Good ideas for extra credit.)
Prentice
Hall's Science Explorer Earth Science Textbook
Prentice
Hall's Physical Science Texbook
Glencoe's
Life Science Textbook
Our Lab Safety Contract (must
be filled out by all Chimacum students and signed by a parent or
guardian):
Chimacum Middle School
Lab Safety Contract
Click here to download any of my documents in Word.