Pathfinders Science

These games will allow you to play soccer, basketball, baseball, ping pong or golf while reviewing for your benchmark! After you click on each link below, scroll down to choose the type of game you’d like to play. If you answer the questions correctly, you get to have a turn at the game.

Weather and Atmosphere

Forces and Motion

Genetics and Inheritance

Human Body Systems

Finished with all four review games? Check out these sites for more science review:

Genome Mysteries

Forces of Nature: Tornadoes

Go! Activity Tournament Bracket

Virtual Knee Surgery

Click here to practice your frog dissection. When you are finished with all the questions relating to this page, click here to answer the last question.

It’s finally that time of year – your science benchmark is on Wednesday, May 20! To help you prepare, be sure that you:

• Complete the benchmark review packet no later than Friday, May 15.
• Participate in all in-class review sessions.
• During the week before the test, review your benchmark study packet daily – but don’t overdo it! Rest is important too.
• The night before the test, get a good night’s sleep.
• Eat a healthy breakfast the morning of the test.
• RELAX! You’ve worked so hard all year – I know you will do AWESOME on this test.

GOOD LUCK!!!

- Mrs. Rawson

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Today in class, we watched a video about the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Over the next nine weeks, you will get very familiar with these organisms as we breed flies with different traits and observe their offspring.

For this blog, answer the following question in at least 3 complete sentences:

Why do scientists use Drosophila melanogaster for their research, and what types of questions or problems are these organisms being used to answer?

This blog assignment is due Monday, January 12.

Click the link below to take the science survey. When you are finished, you MUST show your teacher the last page in order to receive credit.

Click here to take the survey now.

The survey was created with eSurveysPro.com survey software.

Today you will get to practice designing your very own roller coaster using two websites. The first is the Funderstanding site – you will use this site to answer the questions on your worksheet.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FUNDERSTANDING COASTER

When you are finished with the worksheet, CLICK HERE to go to another site that will let you design a roller coaster, then ride it!

Welcome to the Pathfinders science site! Please look over this site carefully – we will be using it often throughout the year. On this site, you will find:

• Important class information and policies
• Daily homework assignments
• Links to enhance your science learning at home
• Information about upcoming projects or special assignments
• Electronic copies of some of the media used in class

You will also be using this site to post your answers to some blog-based assignments throughout the year.

Please read through the information posted under “Student and Parent Information.” If you have a high-speed connection, be sure to check out the “Preview Movie” to get an idea of what we will be studying this year in science. And check back often for new posts!

I’m looking forward to getting to know all of the new Pathfinders for the 08-09 school year. See you soon!

- Mrs. Rawson