At sixth grade basic science lab skills are the focus of the twelve-week Science rotation.
Students learn observation skills, metric measurements and how to record data in a data table.
Activities include a metric mealworm race, recording student reaction times in a data table and building scale model classrooms. Grade seven science classes learn about the Human body, beginning last fall with many hands-on labls involving the chemistry of the cell and basic life processes. Students compared plant cells with animal cells, looked at one-celled protozoan under the microscope and also examined their own cheek cells, ending with a cell model project. In addition, 7th graders just finished sex education and frog dissection. Students had a choice to dissect or to do an alternate assignment.