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Course Finals  Test Preparation

Helpful information for the each quarter's Finals and the Standards Based Short Cycle Assessment (20% of each quarter's grade)

Have You Mastered These Science Math Skills?

Science Skills Check List.

Science Skills and Science Math Help Links

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New Grading Policy:
Detailed Description at this link
Remember: Incomplete Summative Lab Exercises will Not be Accepted.  Use the Rubrics and Check Lists that I provide to make sure you have done everything I require before handing it in to me.  I will only grade your lab when it is completely finished and correctly done.  (Then of course, you have a good grade.)

Have your Science Notebooks in class and be prepared each day--notebook, pencil/pen, paper. 

What's Coming Up and What's Due

Quizzes, Assignments, and Homework Due Dates
Class work is generally not listed here--see lesson plans for class work details.  (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.)

Second Semester

Third Quarter

2/10  Summative Chapter 1 Topics Quiz

2/3 Summative Science Math Skills Quiz Ch 1, 30 points

2/3 Summative Hand Drawn Graphs Final Revisions Due

1/31 Summative Hand Drawn Graphs Due

1/27 Formative Science Math Skills Quiz

Links of Interest                         Links Page  

Course Finals  Test Preparation Helpful information for my end of quarter tests.

Kahn Academy Over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.

100 Top YouTube Science Videos Picked by a teacher for her class.

New Physical Science Standards Coming

Here is a cool Scale of the Universe interactive.  Check out the way they wrote scientific notation and some of the metric prefixes.

Classroom Policies

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 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.
 

Course Finals  Test Preparation

Helpful information for the each quarter's Finals and the Standards Based Short Cycle Assessment (20% of each quarter's grade)

 News & Plans

Site Exploration Worksheet

Want to Retest? See the Retest Assignments

If you want to hear the chapters on MP3, borrow my CD.

Lesson Plans

Week 1/30 - 2/3
Continuing Chapter 1 and Mathematics in Science

Objectives for the Week:

  1. To understand the uses and differences between line, bar and pie graphs and draw them.
  2. To use significant figure rules s in numerous calculations and measurements
  3. To add subtract, multiply and divide in scientific notation.

Monday: Graph types and hand drawing line, pie, and bar graphs.  Summative exercise.

Tues: (Mon or Tues) Hand drawn graphs due, corrections, and misconceptions,  measuring tools and practice.

Wed/Thurs: Precise measurements and graphing using graduated cylinders, balance beams and vernier calipers.

Friday: Summative Quiz on scientific notation, significant figures, and metric conversion.  Assorted Science demonstrations.

Old Lesson Plans

Week 1/23 - 1/27
Chapter 1 and Mathematics in Science

Objectives for the Week:

  1. To understand the uses and differences between line, bar and pie graphs and draw them.
  2. To use significant figure rules s in numerous calculations and measurements
  3. To add subtract, multiply and divide in scientific notation.

Monday: (Mon or Tues) Computer research on scientific notation and significant figures.  Class work on these as well

Tues: (Mon or Tues) Computer research on scientific notation and significant figures.  Class work on these as well

Wed/Thurs: Precise measurements and graphing using graduated cylinders, balance beams and vernier calipers.

Friday: Formative Quiz on Precise measurements and graphing with a vernier caliper and triple beam balance, quiz corrections and review.


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