Although Science is a half-year class at WJHS, and the students will switch to Social Studies with Miss Petzold midway through the year, we will cover a lot of ground in this course! Many of our explorations will take us outside to enjoy nature and all that it has to offer us, as long as the weather cooperates!! I am really looking forward to digging deeper into the 3 big units with our students this year!!
Unit 1: Plant Life Cycles and Traits: growth and development; inheritance and variation of traits; biodiversity and adaptations
Unit 2: Matter and energy in ecosystems: cycles of energy and matter in an ecosystem; interdependent relationships in a food web
Unit 3: Endangered Species and Extinction: fossil evidence of organisms and environments from long ago; how changes in an environment affect the organisms living there