Presentations for 11/30/11, about the narrative themes that were used in the units.

2. Ecology Biome Project – Team 2 Walt Clark & Emily Lawlor Our Project: Entails allowing our students to team up to research a variety of biomes and then record pertinent details (biotic and abiotic factors, food chains/webs, etc) of one they find intriguing using various media sources.

3. Ecology Biome Project *The students will present their findings to the entire class using videos, PowerPoint, posters, pictures, written work, brochures, or any other form of communication that relates their information to the class. Our students will also need to explain terms using pictures, drawings, and diagrams. *Students will be encouraged to use blogs, the class website, You Tube, and other Internet based sources to expound upon and share their topics/ideas.

7. Plots and Data Samples

8. Group 3 Culminating Project Living Environment Unit: Immunity and Disease The project: Students act as epidemiologists to investigate and report on a fictional outbreak that is taking place at the school.

11. Saving the Rain in Syracuse, NY Class Project Components 1) Research rain harvesting, construct rain barrel 2) 4 stakeholder groups, each outline point-of-view 3) Groups choose an experiment for the harvested rainwater All components will be presented to class using PowerPoint slide show

12. Code Blue The Circulatory System Students will be introduced to the circulatory system with a scenario involving a life threatening emergency. The inquiry question is What would you do if you entered a room and found someone laying there unconscious? 7 th Grade Science Students will become first aid responder for one session. They will learn to take a pulse, use pressure point and perform cardiac resuscitation on a mannequin. They will also be shown a training defibrillator.

14. Unit-Genetics/Heredity The Case of the bludgeoned Investigator

15. The Case

18. Unit:

19. See their MindMeister for more details

26. Culminating Project T&C: Science Team 7: Dan Harris Karen Larkin Nov. 30, 2011 Theme: The use of a narrative in the form of a mystery will guide the students along and incorporate information from several topics within the unit. Science often uses deductive reasoning to investigate unknowns. Each Organic Chemistry topic will provide a piece of the puzzle in the inquiry. Once all the topics are discussed, the student investigators will have the information necessary to connect common materials to organic functional groups and their mystery molecule.