7th Science-Skunky Monkey Assignments

Complete the visual summary and lesson review.
P.206 qns. 20-25
P.207 qns. 1-15

Sorry guys, I intend this for your Friday assignment and skimped on it.Complete the visual summary and lesson review questions.
p.192 qns. 20-25
p.193 qns. 1-9

You got this lads and lassies!

As we journey off into understanding how weather, climate and our oceans are connected, I'd like us to take a moment and explore extreme weathers with Nat Geo. Your Friday assignment is to watch the linked video and do a little research to submit a google doc:


At least one paragraph (three full sentences) summarizing what you've learned.
At least one paragraph (three full sentences) expanding on how humans are part of the problem, which may require you to do further research.


Have an epic weekend!

Complete the Visual Summary and Lesson Review Questions
p.92 qns. 22-26
p.93 qns. 1-10


Then prepare for our 5 question quiz on the lesson :D

With a partner, you will research one ocean current of the world that you will CLAIM IN T HE COMMENTS and include the following:

1. Provide an image of the ocean current’s location in the world
2. Provide the name of the current
3. State three unique facts of the current
4. (bonus) How has this current served either the ecosystem, animals or humans?

Submit as ONE GOOGLE SLIDE, make it look nice please and include your group members.

Salaam my wonderful kids, I’m sorry I’m not with you today. I need a day to recover from my trip, and I pushed myself a bit too far yesterday.

Today however, I believe I have an interesting and relevant assignment for you. In preparation for Ramadhan, I want us to explore fasting from a scientific perspective in our body. I’m sure in Islamic studies you go over it’s impact on our spirit and soul, and all the rulings behind fasting and Ramadhan.

We all know that one of the greatest wisdoms behind fasting is restricting ourself so we learn self-control and access our spirituality on a deeper level, however, there is also a slew of epic benefits we gain as well.

Your Assignment:
I have summarised twelve different scientific benefits of fasting for you (I’ll list below). Your job is to select TWO of the twelve, research them, and summarise in your own words (min 200 words for each). Cover how this works and why it’s good for you. This can include physical and psychological benefits. Take the entire class period to complete this assignment, it is due today. Submit as a Doc.

It goes without saying, plagiarism will result in a straight up zero, no ifs ands or buts.

1. Detoxifying
2. Appetite Suppressant
3. Metabolism
4. Weight Loss
5. Immune System
6. Blood Pressure
7. Training with HGH(human growth hormone)
8. Improved Cardiovascular Function
9. Balancing Mental Health
10. Managing Blood Sugar
11. Radiant Complexion /Anti-ageing
12. Healthier Brain and Cognitive Function

I look forward to seeing what you discover and how you present it!! Make this interesting, and I pray this gives us greater motivation with our fasting this Ramadhan.

SMASH THIS GUYS!

Complete the Visual Summary and Lesson Review questions.
p.70 qns. 18-21
p.71 qns. 1-11

Read and completed the second part of the lesson covering the endocrine system.

Pages 66-69
Questions 12-17

Next I see you iA we will get this all on our notes, including drawn diagrams.

In this assignment you will break into eight groups, one for each neurotransmitter.
1- Adrenaline
2-Noradrenaline
3-Dopamine
4-Serotonin
5-GABA
6-Acetylcholine
7-Glutamate
8-Endorphins

To submit, a maximum of two google slides where you cover the following information:
-Name of neurotransmitter
-Image of chemical structure
-Source of neurotransmitter
-Effects of neurotransmitter
-Diseases that may affect the production of neurotransmitter
-Drug/behavioural abuses for the neurotransmitter

Complete the visual summary and review questions
p.12 qns. 13-17
p.13 qns. 1-10

You will be broken into breakout rooms (randomly) to put together a SIGNLE google slide on your assigned body system. In this slide you will do your research and provide the following!
-Image of body system
-Organs included in the body system (you may add images for this too)
-State how your body system functions. What are it's responsibilities?
-Find an interesting fact or two that will make us go "whoaaaaa"
-Describe how your body system collaborates with another body system.


Feel free to begin your research on p.6-7, then continue to use the world of the internet!
Good luck on your "whoaaaa"s.

You got this my peeps! Allaah be with you.

Your assignment is to discover an animal that has a unique behaviour and research it. Your objective is to create a Google Slides presentation you can share with your class on your discovery. Ensure you have the following information
-Image of animal
-Name of animal
-Location it is found
-Describe its habitat
-Name and describe the unique behaviour
-Provide a media clip of it (image, audio, video) no longer than one minute
-Why did you select this animal and behaviour

To ensure we dont have duplicates, claim your animal in the comments section below. The attached link is an awesome resource on animal behaviours.

Please complete the following questions for Visual Summary and Lesson Review
p.132 q.21-26
p.133 q.1-11

This is independent work for the week, since I wont be seeing you all for class this week due to the science fair. It will review photosynthesis, but teach you more about plant processes. Read the entire unit.

In your notes, write down all highlighted terms (definitions).

To submit, google doc completing all the following:
p. 122-131
qns. 5-20

Final step ladies and gentlemen!

Now we stitch all our parts together to create our presentation. We have MAP testing next week as well, so I am coordinating with Sr. Farea on when we can present your findings while giving you all 5-8 minutes each. This means you'll need to pack in much in a short time.

To submit: your final presentation in Google Slides format. 7 SLIDES ONLY. The breakdown of what is needed in each slide is as follows. You are allowed to add extra media beyond what is required, such as images, sound files, and SHORT video clips. Follow this STRICTLY to ensure you cover everything in the time you have to present.

Slide 1. Welcome slide with a title of your project, your research question and your name
Slide 2. A SUMMARY of your background research. What did you research, why did you research it, and how it
helped you prepare for your experiments to answer your research question
Slide 3. Your experiment design. Include an image of all your materials, a list of your materials and the steps to
your experiment.
Slide 4. List your independent (IV) and dependent (DV) variables. This is the variable you are changing to test
its effect (IV), and the variable you are measuring after your IV (DV). Also include how you managed to
control your experiments other variables (keeping all other factors the same to reduce variations and
errors).
Slide5. Data collected. Include your raw data in a table, before it is processed. Needs to be easy to read.
Slide 6. Your processed data in any charts where we can see it clearly.
Slide 7. Conclusion statement (one sentence, likes seriously only one sentence) and a reflection statement on
what didn't work out so well and how you could improve it. Also include a statement on possible follow
up experiments to learn more on the topic!

Attached is the grading rubric to help you excel in each of the aspects.
I wish you all the best and I am available for all your questions until due time. Make us proud!

Complete Visual Summary and Lesson Review questions
p.104 Qns. 19-23
p. 105 Qns. 1-11

You are now ready to conduct your experiment.
You know what you are investigating
You know how to control it
You know what you need for it

Now conduct it and ensure you collect the data you need to answer your investigation (your research question). Furthermore, process your data in an appropriate way. This may include calculating averages or differences, then creating graphs or charts to represent the data.

To submit, a doc with your collected data, and your processed data. You may be measuring time, temperature, length, colour etc. Make sure you include the correct units for your data. Then you are processing it by creating a chart and/or graphs after any kind of calculations necessary.

Please submit your ONE image of all your materials you’ll use for your experiment.

Due after break:
The next step is to do your experiment. You’ll have all break to conduct your experiment. Please record your process and results by writing it out. Feel free to supplement your recordings with other forms of media, such as images, video, audio and even diagrams.

I wish you the best and pray you have fun with this! Peace out homies ✌️ 🚶‍♂️

p. 48 and 49
Complete the visual summary questions and lesson review questions.
19-21
1-8

This assignment is due next week Monday.
For our next steps, I'd like us to begin thinking of what we will need to conduct our experiments. For this assignment make a bulleted list of all the things you'll need. Think of everything and leave nothing out! This can include stopwatches, measuring cups, headphones, water, baking soda, sugar, fire, string, specific foods, sunglasses, paper and pencil to record, thermometer .... EVERY and ANYTHING you need.

Keep in mind the ease of access you have to getting them. Collect all that you can this week, make orders on line for what you need, and go out and buy from stores as well. By Friday the 18th, I will ask you to submit photo evidence of all your materials collected!

May Allaah be with you guys! Bring your ideas to life!!

Complete the summary and review questions.
p.36-27
Summary qns. 15-18
Review qns. 1-9

Now that you've:
1. Identified your research topic
2. Identified your independent and dependent variable

This week we will move on to doing background research! The purpose of this is to learn and teach about your research topic. Research all relevant topics to your main topic. For example, if you are researching the effect of different running shoes on running speeds, then you would research different types of shoes, what they are made of, how they help with running speeds, and how they are designed specifically for running.

To submit: at least a full page/300 words of written research in your own words. I expect no plagiarism, and your sources cited! Don't be surprised if you receive no credit for falsified and copied information.

Apologies. My desktop had a corrupted update so it’s reverting to its older state now. Anyways, to continue from where we left off yesterday complete the following textbook assignment and iA we’ll finish our notes on this segment after break!

Today's assignment is from your book B, Unit 1, Lesson 3: Evidence of Evolution.
Please read p.33-37.
Answer all questions (12-18) and submit as a Doc.
Answer all the review questions (1-9)
Definitions of all highlighted words in your notes as follows:
-(none)

Salaaam beautiful people!

Today’s assignment will help you take your science fair topic to the next practical stage, even if you haven’t fully defined your topic yet. Working backwards from how to design can sometimes help you find a topic!

For this assignment I’d like you to complete the following in a google doc.

1. State your topic of interest in the form of a question. For example “how does x affect y?” Or, “how do different shoe types affect the speed of a runner?”

2. Identify your independent variable. This is the factor you are testing to see it’s effect on something. In the previous example, it’s x, or the different shoe types.

3. Finally, identify your dependant variable. This is the factor that is affected by your independent variable. I’m the precious example, it would be y, or the time of the runner’s run with each shoe type.

Thank you guys for being so awesome, hard working and critically thinking. For this of you who rush through this, PLEASE, for the love of Allaaah, SLOW DOWN and ask the questions you need to if you need help! Have an epic weekend!

1. Identify the 7 steps of the scientific method.
2. Define each step with at least one full sentence
3. Apply the 7 steps to with the example experiment "How does light intensity affect the rate of photosynthesis"

Friday, Nov 13th
*Students staying at home are to complete the alternate research assignment at home:

In a google slides, research the following questions by creating a SLIDE for each one with at least three points and an image.
1. Explain the electromagnetic spectrum, then more specifically the range of visible light
2. Explain the relationship of visible light colour and surface colour absorption

1st Shift (8-9am)
Chui and Kifaru:
Mohammad I, Adam, Abdulrahman, Bayan, Aya, Arabia, Saffiyah, Tala, Taher, and Essa

2nd Shift (9-10am)
Twiga and Ndovu:
Mohammad A, Rabia, Hyder, Douha, Cereen, Jehad, Haadiya, Zaid and Zain

Page 76-77
Complete summary question 18-25
Complete review questions 1-9

Jummah Mubarak my peeps!

Lets take a brief break from photosynthesis and respiration, and look at something unique pertaining to light. I plan to trail this back to photosynthesis and light absorption in the future iA.

Read the following article on "Everlasting Light" and nature's magical use of it. I'll keep the assignment short today:
-Summarize in YOUR OWN WORDS the article in one paragraph (at least 5 sentences)
-Share one interesting fact you learned in the article that made you want to learn a little more
-Research and summarize (in at least two sentences) how genetic engineering has been used to transfer bioluminescence into other living things and provide an example photo of it

Submit as a doc

This is a practice assignment for balancing chemical equations.

Sorry my dudes I’m not feeling well enough to hold class today. Thank you for your understanding.

Today I’d like you to read this short article on key concepts of photosynthesis.

Answer the following and submit as a doc today.

1. Describe the process in your own words
2. Identify the role chlorophyll plays in the process
3. This one is a little complicated. Summarise the difference between light dependant and light independent processes (day and night) in three sentences at least.
4. Don’t write anything about C3 and C4 reactions. That’s beyond our scope.

Thanks my dudes 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

Module A
"Photosynthesis" Video (about 7min)
Complete the following worksheet (6 pages)

Friday, Oct 9th
*Students staying at home are to complete the same worksheet instead the "Virtual Compound Microscope" link*

1st Shift (8-9am)
Chui and Ndovu:
Adam, Mohammad I (putting you two together for convenience) Abdulrahman, Bayan, Aya, Arabia, Douha, Cereen, Jehad, Haadiya and Essa (He's outta town)

2nd Shift (9-10am)
Twiga and Kifaru:
M. Alqadi, Rabia, Hyder, Saffiyah, Taher, Zain, Zaid, Tala

Complete the following 5-question quiz

Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells. Fill out the form in the PDF using the infographic provided. Furthermore, add the following question to your doc:

3.Imagine your school is a system just like the human body. Identify some of the separate systems that work in the school, and describe what would happen if one of those system breaks down and affects other systems.

Text book p. 48-49
complete Questions 20-24
complete Review Questions 1-8
Fully bake your answers, I don't want any half-baked nonsense please.
Submit as doc.

1. Get into your houses
2. Address the following body systems, you can divide up by your group members
-Muscular
-Skeletal
-Nervous
-Respiratory
-Digestive
-Circulatory
-Integumentary
-Immune
-Endocrine
-Renal/Excretory
-Reproductive
3. Research the following for each system and submit as ONE google slide for the GROUP. Have your appointed group leader submit.
a. Organs present
b. Body function responsible for
c. Diagram of the system
d. At least one diseases that can disrupt the system, how and why. (add images if you'd like)

Read and complete p.34-35
That includes questions 20-26 and Lesson Review questions 1-11

Then move on to read p.42-44
And answer questions 8,10,11, and 13

Submit as doc this Thursday night (Friday is your science MAP test). You can do it all in one shot or pace yourself over the next couple days. We will totally write notes on all this next week and discuss cellular organization and system functions.

Since we are talking about the fundamentals about cells, I'd like us to scratch the surface on what we can do with them. Remember we explored stem cells? The undifferentiated cells that can turn into pretty much any kind of cell, such as muscle, bone, blood, nerve and so on? Well, imagine the possibilities of cloning not just cells, but complete multicellular organisms?

To prepare for a discussion I'd like to have in class I'd like you to read this article on cloning and answer the following questions submitted in a doc.

-Define: clone, gene, embryo, and somatic cell
-Describe the first successful cloning process of Dolly the sheep
-In your own words, infer the possibilities of cloning for the future of our humanity (at least one paragraph/3 sentences)

Let's close out our unit with a 'cellular' bang.
We will break out into our house groups and each student will submit their own work.

Text book p. 12-13
complete Questions 14-17
complete Review Questions 1-9
Fully bake your answers, I don't want any half-baked nonsense please.
Submit as doc

What is the factor that limits cell size? Why cant we have cells as big as an entire room!?
To answer that, we have an exploration on cell size and diffusion using math.
Read p.7
answer "Do the Math"
Understand the sample problem
Apply your understanding on Q.7 "calculate"
Submit as a google doc or hand written

No notes
Silence
10 question quiz
15 min to complete
Absent students to do outside of class, under teacher supervision
Allaah be with you!

Now that we've explored animals cells, we have mentioned plant cells briefly and how different they may be. For today's assignment due Saturday midnight I would like for you to compare both plant and animal cells in the attached diagram. To submit:
1.Create a venn diagram comparing plant and animal cells in google SLIDES. You can copy what is provided or make your own.
2. Fill out the venn diagram using the resource provided.
3. Attach and submit as a google SLIDE.

1. Login to https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/dashboard/home and access the student module A.
2. Access "Cell Structure and Function" Virtual lab
3. Press the play button and begin the virtual lab
4. Submit answers in the Lab (copied on the attached the PDF as well) in a google doc

Using our reading p.8-10, complete the following assignment on cell theory and cell organelles.

Read p.1-3
Answer the three short answer questions
Submit as a google doc

You have been broken into four different houses,
Chui (yellow)
Ndovu (blue)
Twiga (green)
Kifaru (red)

Your leader will submit one google slide with the following information
1. Image of the animal from the Swahili name
2. A fun fact about the animal
3. A list of all your house members