*7th Grade Science*
By: BHS Staff Profiles
October 17, 2025
Chosen for this week’s Staff Spotlight is Miss Kimberly Lenart. This is Miss Lenart’s first year of full-time teaching. Previously, she was a long-term substitute teacher at Bay High School. In her free time, she enjoys playing volleyball, playing piano, and paddleboarding. A fun fact about her is that she has three cats named after Twilight characters.
Q: What are the most important concepts for students to understand by the end of the year?
A: “The most important concepts for seventh-grade science students is learning about ecosystems and how energy flows between organisms. A really cool topic we are going to learn about is the Earth’s moon and sun systems and how they all revolve around each other to create eclipses. Those are the two biggest ones I would say. My favorite would be the short unit on the periodic table of elements because I love Chemistry.”
Q: How do you incorporate technology and hands-on activities into your lessons?
A: “Technology-wise, we use IXLs. I love doing labs and hands-on activities. In our first lab, we tested how many licks it took to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop with a scientific method. The last lab we completed not long ago was Anaerobic respiration where we watched fermentation occur in a zip lock bag. We watched yeast eat the sugar to form carbon dioxide and watched the bag expand.”
Q: What does science homework typically look like for seventh graders?
A: “Seventh graders will not have science homework unless they do not finish an activity in class, so they get lucky as long as they are using class time wisely.”
Q: How do you connect science lessons to the real world?
A: “I like to connect science lessons to the real world by connecting them to future jobs that students can have.”
Q: Which of these two smells better, fresh-cut grass or bread baking in the oven?
A: “I like the smell of baking bread. I think it has such a warm and inviting smell. It makes the house feel warm and cozy, too.”
Q: Starbucks or 7 Brew?
A: “I am going to have to go with Starbucks because I only had 7 Brew once, which was good, but I feel like I gravitate towards Starbucks more.”
Q: Who are three people you would want on your zombie apocalypse team?
A: “I feel like the Rock would be a good person to take out the zombies and Taylor Swift to perform a show so that the zombies can be distracted by her singing. The third person would be Emmett from Twilight because he is super strong and super fast, so he could catch those zombies quickly.”
Q: What is your all-time favorite Halloween costume and tradition?
A: “Every year, my family hosts Halloween. All of my little cousins come over, and I get to take them trick-or-treating, so that is my favorite tradition. My favorite Halloween costume that I have done just a year ago would be Taylor Swift. It was back then when my hair was dyed blonde, and I looked identical to her.”
Thank you for your time, Miss Lenart. We hope you have a fun Halloween this year and an even better first year here in Brooklyn.
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