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Welcome to Mr. McClaskey's 7th and 8th grade science classroom. Throughout the course of this year I hope to show my students how interesting and relevant science is to their every day lives. Whether teaching remotely or in the classroom, I plan on performing various "real-world" laboraotory activities and demonstrations to give students a first-hand look at the material they are learning.
This year, for 7th grade we will be exploring:
- Phases of Matter
- Measurements of Matter
- Phase Changes in Matter
- Atomic Structure
- Physical and Chemical Properties/Changes
- The History of Earth
- Plate Tectonics
- The Rock Cycle
- The Weather Cycle
- Hurricanes
- Plants and Ecosystems
- The Food Chain, Food Web, and Energy Pyramid
- Predator/Prey and Mutually Beneficial Relationships
For 8th Grade we will explore:
- The Law of the Conservation of Mass
- Endothermic and Exothermic Reactions
- The Transfer of Energy
- Genetics, Heredity, and Natural Selection
- Forces, Motion, Newton's Laws, Electricity and Magnetism
- Human Impacts on the Environment
- Environmental Science
- Ocean Currents
- Waves
- Systems of the Body
I can be contacted via email at [email protected]
Please do not hesitate to reach out to me with any comments or concerns! I am here to make science as interesting and engaging as I possibly can.