March Update

Hello Students and Parents,

I would like to thank students, parents, and staff for a very successful First Annual Science Fair! I would like to give special thanks to Mrs. Stewart, Ms. Basayne-Smith, Ms. Chambers, and to all of the judges for making it a great success!

Congratulations to our top winners and good luck to those that qualified to go on to the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair.
The third quarter is almost at a close. All third quarter work will need to be turned in by Friday March 5th. Students please make sure all missing, late, or make-up work is turned in by this date.

Note to Parents:

Thursday March 11th is early release day. Report cards will be going out on this day. The science fair project grades will be a large portion of the students third quarter grades. Unfortunately, many students were missing assignments or were significantly late with assignments and this has affected their Science grade.

March 12-15- Spring Break :)

7th Grade

We are completing our unit on Geologic time this week. We will be working on our own time scale lab on Monday 3/1. Study Guides will be assigned on 3/2 and the Ch. 4 unit exam will be on Thursday 3/4/10. It is very important to complete the study guide accurately and spend an appropriate amount of time studying for the exam. Please make sure that you really study the unit vocabulary as this will be an important part of your test.

We will begin our next unit on Friday 3/6. We will begin discussing populations of organisms in ecosystems. This unit will cover many aspects of Environmental Biology.

8th Grade

We are continuing to work on Genetics and Heredity. Students have completed their first Punnett square activities and we will continue to reinforce and review Punnett squares and Mendelian genetics. We will be doing several activities this week that include an inventory of dominant human traits as well as using the law of probability to draw a picture of a baby using several human traits such as; eye shape, ear shape, curly/straight hair etc. Students usually enjoy this lab activity because every picture comes out so unique.

Please continue to discuss with your child the importance of studying and completing homework as well as staying on task during class and turning in all of their daily work including Bellwork.

I hope everyone has a wonderful spring break,

Ms. Duerr