Science

Middle School Group Content Questions

• What is your favorite season and why?

• How well do you think you prepared for the quiz/test?

• Do you think field studies or laboratory studies are more helpful to scientists and why?

• When was a time you remember being amazed by nature?

• What is one healthy thing you do?

• Name one example of a producer.

• Name one example of a consumer.

• What is one benefit of introducing a non-native species into an ecosystem?

• What is one potential problem of introducing a non-native species into an ecosystem?

• Name a biotic factor we could find in Michigan.

• Name a negative human impact on the environment.

• What's one way we can have a positive impact on the environment?

• (Could do a "Who Has" types of questioning/game in the circle... I have a lion, who has a producer that would be in the same ecosystem?)

• Name your favorite landform and why.

• Give an example of a physical property.

• Give an example of a chemical property.

• Give an example of a chemical formula.

• How do you think changes in ecosystems and habitats could affect you in the future?

• How does color benefit your life experiences?

• What feelings do you have about the climate of the Earth changing?

• How might understanding a gene mutation and the cause of genetic diseases affect people in our community?

• Give an example of a physical change.

• Give an example of a chemical change.

• Pick an element on the periodic table. What is its mass?

• What was one thing you liked about a lab and one thing you disliked about a lab?

• Tell me a time you experienced an exothermic/endothermic reaction.

• Pretend you are walking through the ___________ (biome). What are two things you see?

• You are a(n) _________ (organism). What are you looking to eat and what are you afraid might eat you?

• The population of rabbits is increasing. What could we do to stop the population from growing too large?

• A strike-slip fault shifts. What might we experience from it?

• What is a positive impact from volcanic eruptions?

• Think of your favorite type of weather. What is it and what type of front or pressure system might be the cause?

• All of the fish in Mr. P's aquarium died! What should we do to determine why this might have happened?

• Give an example of each of the three types of heat transfer.

• Choose a planet. What is something that is different on that planet from planet Earth?

• A boulder is rolling down a hill. What kind of force could be used to slow it down?