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| | Grade 8 Science Studies Materials | | | | | Tuesday, March 9, 2010 11:02 AM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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Our Grade 8 Science classes began a unit on Materials last week. This unit investigates how scientists select, produce, and process materials for a wide range of uses.
Students study how civilizations from ancient times to the present have been connected to the materials they have learned to craft.
The first activity in this unit is titled "Differentiating Humans from Other Organisms" and challenge students to complete a number of manipulative tasks without the use of their thumbs.
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| Quabbin Valley Festival Chorus |
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 2:22 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| [Image:022.jpg] Four BMS students, Emily Carson, Alina Shirley, Alex Zulkiewicz, and Andrew Faulstich, members of the BMS Chorus which meets during our weekly activity period, performed together last weekend in the Quabbin Valley Festival Chorus. T |
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| BMS Student Council presents check! |
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 2:10 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| The BMS Student Council presented Mr. Chris Sparks with a check for $1,558.55 that will be put to good use in the Haitian relief effort. Mr. Sparks brought a number of WMA Upper School students to Haiti over Winter Break. Our students and Mr. Spa |
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| Penny Wars Champions!! |
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| Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:09 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Our Grade 8 students, the victors in the Penny Wars competition earned, as the class who accumulated the most pennies, a pizza party during the period of their choice. Amazingly enough, the students did not choose PE, nor lunch, but chose math and |
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| BMS BBall!! |
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| Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:30 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Both of our BMS Basketball teams have enjoyed a very successful season. The Boys' team, coached by Mr. Lago, have played very well with solid contributions from the players. The Girls' Team has also excelled and is 4-0 heading into their final game |
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| Grade 7 Humanities Connects to Civil Rights Movement |
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| Monday, February 15, 2010 5:17 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Each student in Ms Krassin's Grade 7 Humanities class was assigned a person to research who was associated with the Civil Rights Movement. Each student then was required to present to the class what was learned about the person researched. The st |
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| Penny Wars!! |
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| Monday, February 15, 2010 4:42 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Our BMS students raised over $1000.00 during our Penny Wars fund raising activity. Here is Jessica, our BMS Student Council President, with the coins our school accumulated during this intense battle! [Image:DSCF0006.jpg] Here is David, Grade 6 repr |
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| AMC 8 Top Scorers |
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| Monday, February 15, 2010 4:37 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Congratulations to Jackson and Brian who earned the top scores on our AMC 8 National Math Competition test. Their names will be placed on the plaque in Blake Middle School Lobby joining previous winners, Austin Little, Jarrod Smith, Anna Gaziano, an |
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| Sgt. Clarke visits BMS |
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| Friday, February 5, 2010 12:38 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| SGT. Clarke of the Wilbraham Police Department visited Blake Middle School on Thursday to talk with our Grade 8 Health classes about substance use and abuse. The talk took place in our Griffin Room and Mr. Vartabedian's Grade 9 Health classes also a |
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| Grade 8 Science |
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 5:00 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Grade 8 Science continues to research topics that connect with our Grade 8 theme, "Knowing One's Community". The investigation featured here is a search for the source of mercury contamination in the well water of Silver Oaks community. |
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| Our First VLOG!! |
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| Wednesday, February 3, 2010 9:39 AM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Here is a link to a video depicting a portion of our Winter Showcase. This is our first VLOG entry. Hope you enjoy it!! http://www.vimeo.com/8394498 |
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| BMS Game Night |
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| Monday, February 1, 2010 11:44 AM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Our Student Council continues to do a great job planning weekend events that all of our students are invited to enjoy. The latest event that they planned was "Game Night" in our Campus Center. Game night included pool, ping pong, card g |
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| Peer Tutors |
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| Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:28 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Peer Editing, Peer Tutoring, and the idea of learning from one another and helping one another learn are all important parts of the Blake Middle School experience. Here are some of our students working together during an X Block period on mathematic |
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| Grade 6 tracks the sun's daily "movement" |
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| Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:21 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Our Grade 6 Humanities theme is "Knowing One's Past". In Grade 6 science we are currently studying the motion of the Earth, Sun, and Moon. This relative motion, studied and explained for thousands of years by many, many civilizations rema |
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| Grade 7 Humanities Biography Project |
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| Tuesday, January 26, 2010 2:42 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Grade 7 students are currently researching a person associated with the Civl Rights Movement. This research will allow our students to write a first person narrative for the person they are learning about. Our students will then "perform" |
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| Presidential Inaugural Addresses |
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| Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:30 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Grade 8 Humanities students continue to contemplate the ideals and dreams of our founding citizens in our American Democracy. This exercise challenged them to write their own inaugural address defining what goals each student would have for her or h |
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| Measuring Density |
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| Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:23 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| An activity that helps our Grade 8 students understand the metrtic system finds this class measuring the density of several different objects. The activity helps our students learn about significant figures in a measurement, base units, and derived |
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| Building Heart and Lung Models |
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| Sunday, January 24, 2010 4:16 PM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Our science classes with SEPUP are often challenged to build a model to better understand a science concept. Model building is an important part of science learning. Here our Grade 7 students were challenged to build a working model that shows the |
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| Grade 7 Science studies the human heart |
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| Monday, January 11, 2010 9:14 AM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| A significant part of the SEPUP program featured in Blake Middle School is the ability to use and evaluate models to better understand a scientific concept. Here our Grade 7 students are working to build a model to explain the functioning of the hum |
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| Humanities 7 Exhibit Opens in Binney |
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| Monday, January 11, 2010 8:46 AM -0500 | By: Blake Middle School |
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| Ms. Krassin's Grade 7 Humanities Class hosted an opening of an exhibit showcasing their Memorial Projects in Binney Friday night. The opening was well attended and the exhibits were very impressive. each student was given the challenge of creating |
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