Science Leadership Academy Middle School
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Zephyr Shark Dissection
Zephyr science classes for grades 7 and 8 recently dissected sharks. We are learning about levels of organization in living things, and we focused on organs and organ systems for our lab time and modeling. For the argumentative writing portion of this project, we are explaining whether we should make artificial organs in the future,…
5th & 6th Grade Science Updates
Through the craziness of schedule changes and back-to-school buzz, SLAMS fifth and sixth graders are getting started on asking the question “how does the Earth change?” We have finally set up our science notebooks where will be documenting our notes for the year. As we explore our earth’s past and how it continues to change,…
Extracting Strawberry DNA in the Classroom
Students in 7th grade had an exciting day in science class getting DNA out of strawberries. Students used a variety of household items, including soap, salt, water, rubbing alcohol, cheesecloth and wooden skewers to help them collect DNA from their strawberry samples. Below are how students explained what it was they did to get their…
Science Updates
In science, we have been exploring the impacts of reducing, reusing, recycling at SLAMS and the world at large. In a sample collected by our 5th and 6th graders, we learned that over 60% of our waste at school is paper and nearly 80% of our total waste is recyclable material that goes to the…