Monday, January 27, 2014

Muscular System

Make sure you know the 15 MUST KNOW muscles listed in the file cabinet!

https://docs.google.com/a/wcsks.com/forms/d/1VLFuoZQp1Q7M7QhR__ZC2VnDZ7cGPZcGYrM9uHtNnA8/viewform

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Your Skin

Graded Quiz over the Skin on Wednesday, January 22nd.

What to know:

3 main types of skin cancer (use your skin lab poster to help you with that)
3 main layers of the skin
What structures are found in the dermis and what they do
Functions of the skin
What is melanin?
What does SPF stand for?

Good site for reviewing the skin:

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/skin-article/

Cool interactive site I just found:
http://sciencenetlinks.com/collections/skin-deep-project/

Thursday, December 12, 2013

When you see the Kingdom Monera, you should think Bacteria. Most bacteria are good and helpful, but the bad bacteria get all the attention because we remember how nasty they can make us feel! Check out this great site! It has an actual "Bacteria Cam" that works in real time! You can check periodically to see how the bacteria are growing! Cells Alive

1st Hour Cafe Food List
3rd Hour Cafe Food List
4th Hour Cafe Food List
5th Hour Cafe Food List

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Genetics

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/illustrations/normalkaryotype

Sunday, October 27, 2013

"Cell"-A-Bration Day

What a fabulous day the 7th graders had taking the lower school students on tour through the giant animal cell, making cookies, and playing cell games! I am so proud of you all! Thank you for doing such a great job! Check out all the different classes that came through our cell in pictures on the link below.

"Cell"-A-Bration Slideshow