OQMS 7th Grade Learning
The end is near but the learning continues!
Mathematics Learning
7th-grade math students are cruising through the 7th-grade curriculum! We have just finished our unit on Geometry (Volume, Area & Pythagorean Theorem) and are now heading towards Statistics & Probability. Our focus in this unit is how Statistics and Probability are used in the real world. Topics to be covered are: analyzing measures of data, conducting surveys and performing experiments to make inferences about a population. The students will be doing several project-based assessments within this unit.
We will also be introducing the 7th-grade advanced students to basic Trigonometry as an extension to the current curriculum.
We will be MAP testing May 1st- May 2nd.
English Language Arts Learning
During the last few weeks of school, students in language arts will be immersed in a riveting unit that focuses on acceptance and tolerance. Students will be analyzing the interactions between individuals, events, and how ideas influence events/interactions. Classroom discussions will be based on the students’ leveled novel groups. Topics will include: review of plot elements, characterization, theme, and up leveling vocabulary.
During our writing unit, students will present claims and findings, evaluating the relevance and soundness of their arguments. These claims will be presented in a focused, coherent manner with pertinent descriptions, facts, and details as students develop their informative writing.
Our unit will conclude with a reflection on the progress that has been made over the course of the school year. Ask your student what their favorite part of language arts has been this year and celebrate the successes they have accomplished!
Guiding Questions:
What is prejudice, discrimination, and tolerance?
How is respect essential to tolerance?
How do we respond to injustice?
What ways can people be blind to their own prejudice?
In what ways can a person show characteristics of good/evil?
Dates To Remember:
MAP Testing for ELA, May 3rd & 4thScience Learning
7th grade Science students have an exciting end to their year!. Students recently explored visible light and its interactions with objects of varying transparency by creating “stained glass” windows out of a variety of everyday materials. They will round out the unit on waves with a comparison of digital and analog signals. During the last weeks of school students will integrate their understanding of electromagnetic radiation as they leave Earth to explore space. Students will model lunar phases, eclipses and seasons. They will also explain, referencing electromagnetic radiation data, how galaxies move and interact with each other. Students will explore how size, movement, and distance of objects in space are related and the role gravity plays. Combining all of their studies this year (Ecosystems, Waves, and Space Science) students have constructed an understanding of humankind’s relationship with our planet and outer space and the need to continue to explore and monitor both.
Guiding Questions:
What evidence can we find that light is reflected, absorbed or transmitted?
What are the effects of an object’s surface material or color on what we see?
How does light travel through a medium and from one medium to another?
How is the universe arranged, what does it contain and what is earth’s place in it?
Social Studies Learning
7th Grade students will be spending time over the last part of school examining the American Civil War and the Reconstruction time period after the war. Guiding Questions we will focus on including the following: How do attitudes about conflicts and resolutions differ among individuals, groups, and societies? How does civil disobedience shape society? How do attitudes about conflicts and resolutions differ among individuals, groups, and societies? What are the causes and effects of tensions that occur when the goals, beliefs, norms, and principles of two or more groups or institutions are in conflict? How can we use evidence to detect limitations in the historical record?
Art
Music
Communications-Public Speaking
Physical Education
The Physical Education Department would like to remind students of all grade levels that in order to receive full credit you must wear your gym uniform daily. The gym uniform consists of the Old Quarry shirt and shorts. Old Quarry sweatpants are accepted as well. Students must also have proper footwear.
As we wind down the last five weeks of the school year students will be in units covering bowling skills, track and field, Fitnessgram and our annual kickball/16” softball tournaments.
If your student has lost any items throughout the school year over the next few weeks they will have multiple opportunities to claim their items as we put the lost/found on display. It will be on display the next three Fridays and all week during the final week of school. Please claim items that belong to you.
We look forward to ending the year on a positive note and making your students experience in physical education a positive one. A healthy body is a healthy mind.
Old Quarry Physical Education Staff