Pages
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Ms. Roberson on 7th Grade Inventors
Archives
Categories
- 2009-2010 School Year
- 2011-2012 School Year
- 7th Grade Invention Convention
- Big News
- Earth's History
- Eighth Grade Science Projects
- Electricity and Magnetism Unit
- Grades One – Two Science
- Grades Three – Five Science
- Light and Color
- Microscopic World
- Middle School Science
- Parent Involvement
- Plants and Animals
- TCPS School Garden
- Uncategorized
- Unit Five — Physics of Simple Machines
- Unit Five — Physics: Simple Machines
- Unit Four: Physics of Motion
- Unit One — What is Science?
- Unit Three — Oceans
- Unit Two — Ecology
- Unit Two: Physics of Sound
Meta
Mesa College Canyon Day
Middle Schoolers visited Mesa College to see the exhibit of their work for Canyon Day. Campus Ambassadors gave them tours of the campus.
Amniotic Eggs
Students learned about the wonder of the evolution of anniotic eggs — eggs with a shell and an amnion, a membrane to support the embryo’s life. We incubated chicken eggs, dyed eggs using vegetable dyes from our school garden, and … Continue reading
Field Trip to SDSU Evolutionary Biology Lab
5th and 6th graders visited SDSU Professor, and TCPS parent Dr. Elizabeth Waters’s biology lab to learn Dr. Waters and her graduate students study how plants adapt to low-water, high-heat stress. We visited her lab, growth chambers, and green house, … Continue reading
Tecolote Canyon Animals and Plants
Students in all grades have visited Tecolote Canyon to look for signs of animals and the plants they depend on. As part of our Animals and Plants units, we are looking at the relationships between animals and plants. In middle … Continue reading
Posted in Plants and Animals, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Outdoor Science
There’s nothing to invigorate the minds of students of any age as much as learning outside. A wild winter wind blew us around as the 7th and 8th graders searched the park for evidence of the stages of plant evolution … Continue reading
Planting Hope
Thanks to a garden grant by the La Jolla Village Garden Club, our TCPS school garden has expanded just in time for our Plants and Animals science unit! Drop by and see our new oak barrel planters! We’ve covered them … Continue reading
