Grade 7 Hands-on
School Year 2023/24
Sleepier Hollow - English - 2023/24
The final Additional English project (Sleepy Hollow 2: Sleepier Hollow) tasked students with continuing the story of Sleepy Hollow past the final chapter as a short play. This not only allowed students to flex their incredible imaginations (and their talent for acting!) but tested their understanding of what happened in the novel.
Slime Lab - Science - 2023/24
To help students understand the different states of matter, we made slime in the lab using corn starch, water and food colouring. We explored how this slime in particular acts like a solid when you apply pressure and also a liquid when there is no pressure. This activity got the students thinking about the properties of solids and liquids and they discovered that this type of slime is a non-newtonian fluid.
Microscope Labs - Science - 2023/24
In this lab, the students learnt how to use a light microscope. We used the light microscope to look at an animal cell and a plant cell. The students swabbed the inside of their cheek to get a cheek cell and extracted a thin layer of onion epidermis which we used as our plant cell.
The students then practised focusing the microscope on these different cells and had to draw what they saw. The students practised changing the objective lens to improve the magnification of the cell so they could see the cell in greater detail. We compared the different structures and features of the two different cells.
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Students also looked at the stomata found on leaves under the microscope. We took leaves from plants outside and using nail polish and tape looked at how many stomata we could see on the top and bottom of a leaf.
We found that there were more stomata on the bottom of a leaf. This is because this part of the leaf is normally in the shade and this reduces water loss.
