Welcome to the 2021-22 school year and Room A202 Simmons College! My name is Sarah Peterson, this is my third year at WGLA, and I will be teaching 7th and 8th-grade science. I am so excited to have the opportunity to spend a more “normal” year with students in 7th grade, and I’m also looking forward to working with the 8th graders as they complete their final year at WGLA. My goal in science this year is to ensure students have many hands-on learning experiences, and that they are given the opportunity to explore how the science concepts we are learning about apply to their everyday lives.

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Here are the science topics we will explore this year:

7th Grade

● Properties of matter ● Energy transfers and transformations ● The water cycle, ocean currents, and Earth’s atmosphere ● Weather and climate ● The Earth-Moon-Sun system ● Earth’s biomes and ecosystems

8th Grade

● Forces and motion ● Earth’s interior, tectonic plates, and geologic processes ● Erosion, deposition and geologic change over time ● Evolution ● Reproduction and heredity

Here is what will be included in Science Class:

1) Daily bell work

2) Science notebook for class notes (input) and writing about learning (output)

3) Weekly vocabulary

4) Weekly hands-on lab

5) Quizzes/tests