Science 

Science News April 2025

This month, 8th grade Earth Science and 10th grade Biology classes are preparing for MAP

testing and EOCs. These classes are going over review material, while focusing on answering

questions with full sentences, details, and explanations to prepare them for the writing styles

that state testing expects. State testing for Science will take place in the last week of April.

All other classes are continuing units as usual, covering Missouri’s Science standards for each grade range. 

6th grade will continue learning about waves, light, and sound before moving on to their last

unit of the semester: electricity and magnetism. The 6th grade students are learning about

the energy transfer that happens during a wave, as well as different types of waves, and

comparing them to real world experiences and examples. Next unit they can expect to learn

about electrical charges, electrical forces and fields, currents, and circuits. 7th grade will

soon test over the sun, earth and moon system before moving on to their last unit of the

semester: weather and the water cycle. Students in the 7th grade will learn about the

characteristics of weather, including weather patterns. They will also cover the process that

the water they use and see daily goes through in order to be used again and again. 9th grade

is learning about chemical reactions, and will wrap up the month with some review.

Students in the 9th grade are learning the basics of different types of chemical reactions 

and how to balance chemical equations. Anatomy and Physiology have begun a new unit over the 

cardiovascular system. These students will be covering the cardiac cycle, the heart and all its connecting 

veins, arteries, vessels and more! Greenhouse students will be caring for their seedlings which sprouted last

month! The Greenhouse students are very excited for new ideas coming together for the class. We have been in 

contact with the owner of the Hume Garden Depot in hopes of getting some Hume-school made products

into the depot! These changes are expected next year but the beginning steps are being put into place!