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Welcome New Classes, Remember to have your Science Notebooks in class and be prepared each day. You will loose participation points for being unprepared for class (notebook, pencil/pen, paper).

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Grades (From: Classroom Policies )
Physical Science students grades are based on two criteria.
50% Tests and Quizzes
50% Lab and Projects

Quizzes, Assignments, and Some Homework Due Dates (Some class work becomes homework when we run out of time and is not listed here. For example: Labs are to be written up at home if not accomplished during class.)

Late work will be significantly penalized unless a new due date is arranged with me ahead of time.

First Quarter

3/8 Safety contracts due before lab day.

3/3-4 Wed-Thurs Chapter 1 Quiz (Major)

3/5 Web Site Exploration Paper Due

3/2 Graphs from Lab Day Due

3/2 Quiz:Scientific Notation/Significant Figures (small)

2/24-25 Hypothesis due about the fluid transfer mystery. Remember that this is not just a guess, but a reasoned, researched, possible explanation of the observation. Come up with a test for Your Hypothesis.

2/25 Measurement Exercise Revisited and Due

Snow Snow Snow --Lost 11 days: Dates Adjusted

2/8 Metric Conversion Worksheet Due

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Classroom Policies

Grade Criteria
Progress Reports
Unofficial Progress Reports
Makeup Tests
Late Work
Lost or Missing Work
Missing Work Grading Policy
Science Text Books
Extra Credit

Reading the Textbook
I expect you to read each chapter we work on. If you don't have any assigned homework, you can always be reading the current chapter.

Read the chapter and take notes on it. Summarize your notes.
Ask me to clarify anything you don't understand in class.
Reading the chapter before I talk about it in class is the surest way to gaining a good understanding of the material.

I also have Guided Reading MP3s for the whole textbook. If you want to borrow one, let me know. Just load it in a MP3 player and open your book. It follows the text exactly. Listening, reading, and writing will push your understanding of this course well into the passing range

Science Text Books
Your textbook should be at home. I will ask you to bring them to school when we need them. We will have a class set. You can borrow a book for study halls any time you want. If you want to bring your book to and from school, put a cover on it for protection. Any books at school found without a cover will be confiscated until you can provide a cover.

News

Up to date class progress reports will be handed out on Friday.

3/7-11/2010
Ch 2

Mon: Mixtures, Pure Substances, Chemical Formula, Elements, compounds.

Tues: Safety contracts due, Physical and chemical properties, Calulating Density. Separating mixtures Hypothesis Revisited,

Wed: Separation Lab

Thurs: Separation lab continued.

Fri: Safety Contract Due. Separation Lab Due, Progress reports handed out

Web site Exploration Questions

Notebooks
We have given you notebooks, have them in class every day.

Grade Updates
I will have your grades updated every other week on average in the computer and I will give an unofficial progress report approximately every 2 weeks and one week before the real Official Progress Reports or quarter grades come out. This way you can see where you are with your work before your parents decide to ground you for the rest of your life for low grades

For those who were out:

3/1-5/2010
Ch 1

Mon: Block
Precision Calculation Exercise
Safety Discussion and Video

Tues: Sci. Notation, Sig. Fig. Quiz. Review

Wed/All Late work Due: Graphing, Hypothesis work
Safety Quiz/ Discussion

Thurs: Chapter 1 Quiz

Fri: Safety Contract Due. Video on chemistry Starting Chapter 2

Email Mr King Or Call Him at 678-2393 ex 1305
Last Updated: 3/7/10 (If I remembered to change this.)

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