Monthly Archives: September 2015

Open House Powerpoints

Thank you to those of you who attended open house. It’s such a busy time of year and I know it is difficult for some of you to make it in person. I am attaching my power points from Open House for Advisory, Science and AVID. I didn’t get to talk about all my slides […]

Electricity, Waves and Information Transfer

We have started working on the physics unit Electricity, Waves and Information Transfer that we are piloting for the district. Students are keeping a spiral notebook as a science notebook. So far the notebook has been used only in class. I graded the notebooks this weekend and grades are posted online. If a student misses […]

The Interactive Notebook INB

As part of piloting new curriculum I am trying out an AVID strategy called the interactive notebook. Students will be creating a notebook with table of contents and certain writings and drawings on each page. The pages on the right are for input of information, notes, and the left pages are a placeof processing of the […]

Welcome Class of 2020!

Changes to science education in Oregon are on the way. Oregon has adopted the new National science standards called Next Generation Science Standards or NGSS. 14 other states have adopted these standards as well. (They are a similar idea to the Common Core standards in Math and Language Arts.) Teachers in Eugene School District 4j […]