October 10, 2015 – 5:03 pm
Here is a copy of the review sheet. Answers should be written on paper. Here is a link to the glossary from the book for definitions. You should be able to get the rest of the answers from a complete science notebook. I am available Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for extra help this week. […]
October 4, 2015 – 7:11 pm
We started to work on a concept called claim evidence and reasoning or CER. It is a way of writing scientific explanations. Students/scientists come up with a claim which is often in our class a response to a question from the teacher. For example this week we are studying batteries. We built a battery and […]
September 29, 2015 – 8:28 pm
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 […]
September 26, 2015 – 6:36 pm
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 […]
September 18, 2015 – 12:56 pm
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 […]
September 3, 2015 – 9:42 pm
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 […]
Cal Young had a great showing at the 18th annual EWEB Solar Challenge. We had 8 teams representing our school. Several cars made it to the semi-finals and one team made it to the finals and finished in third place. Several of the teams experienced some frustrations with faulty wiring, track bumps etc, but all maintained a good […]
On Saturday, May 30th one team from each of the six science classes will be invited to attend the annual EWEB Solar Challenge held at Cal Young Middle School. Registration begins at 9:30 and the first race begins at 11:00. My classroom will be open (via the back door) starting at 9:00 am for last […]
The OAKS (Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) test will be given in science classes towards the end of May. It covers content from science taught in grades 6-8 at Cal Young. The science department will provide a two day review of the 6th and 7th grade content before the test is given. For students […]
March 28, 2015 – 11:08 am
We will be transitioning to our physics curriculum on March 30th. The unit is called Energy Machines and Motion. Due to time constraints of the solar car unit and the science oaks prep and testing we will do a modified version of this unit. For concepts not covered in this unit I will be using […]