7th Grade Science with Mrs. Sorrows
Choose from these suggested activities to explore different science and engineering topics over the summer. Students entering 7th grade are encouraged to complete 3 of these over the summer and share your work with me at the start of school!
Making Observations
Dragonflies! One of my favorite spring, summer and fall activities is looking at dragonflies and noticing all the different ones we have right in our area. So I'm posting some resources to help you identify what dragonflies you see. Look for them at sunny times of day - they seem to disappear when it is cloudy or rainy! The linked document has some common ones seen in our area. For more information on how to identify them, see my detailed description.
What are the dynamics of life on Earth?
We will examine the resources that support life, with a major focus on the water cycle and the distribution of water around the world. Here students developed an integrated understanding of water resources and the movement of water. For example, the amount of water in different kinds of resources and the length of time that water stays in particular reservoirs or locations affect its availability for use by humans, plants, and animals. In addition, understanding how molecules move at different temperatures can help you explain why it is likely to rain on one side of a mountain. Students will examine a wide variety of data in tables, graphs, and maps.
In addition, students examine what it means to be alive - what are the characteristics that living things share, and what do they need? This section involves data analysis of the relationships between predators and prey, and an examination of the types of relationships between living things.
Photo by Mrs. Sorrows
Book Club take-aways
We had three great sessions of the 2021-2022 Parent/Teacher Book Club focused on the title, How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk. Written by best-selling authors, Faber and Mazlish, this book offers a practical resource with easy-to-implement suggestions to help us tackle the tough issues teens and families face today. One of the big messages that we discussed was validating the feelings of youth, especially when they encounter challenges or may have a different perspective than our own. We suggested the following websites as additional resources to families and staff:
Ross Greene livesinthebalance.org
Understood.org understood.org
Contact me!
My email address is msorrows and all school addresses use @nrsd.net
Please feel free to email me any questions or concerns; I check email daily on school days and will get back to you as soon as I can, typically by the end of the next school day. Email is the best way to reach me, however you can also call the school office and leave a message for me.
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