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welcome to  mike's magical world of science 

and mathematics

TIPS FOR INSTRUCTIONS
  • Provide support and structure; clearly specify rules, assignments, and duties.
  • Practice skills frequently.Use games and drills to help maintain  student interest.
  • Provide outlines or tape lecture material or  post on school web page
  • Clearly outline objectives and  how you  will help students obtain objectives
  • Help the students to think ,research ,and  analyze  information  critically  and independently
  • Provide as much  tactile  opportunities as possible
  • Write all assignments  and  deadlines  on the board ,or hand out  written instructions.
  • Emphasize  concepts, theories ,ideas, relationships, and  generalizations.
PERFORMANCE   ASSESSMENT
  • Performance  assessments  are based  on  judging the  quality of  a student's response to a performance task.
  • A performance task  is  constructed to require  the use of important concepts with  supporting information, concepts with supporting  information, work habits important to science and  on or more  if the  elements  of scientific literacy.
  • The  performance task  attempts to put  the student in a "real world" context so that  the class  learning can be  put  to authentic uses.
Performance  Task Assessment lists
Performance task assessment list break the assessment criteria into several well  defined categories.
Possible points  for each category are assigned by the teacher  .
Both the teacher and  the student assess the work and assign the number of points  earned.
The teacher is scoring not only the quality of the product, but the quality of the student's self assessment.
Assessment and Grading
  • Assessment is giving the learner  feedback  on the individual elements of his or  her  performance or product.
  • Assessments should provide specific information on strengths and weaknesses and allows the student to set targets for improvement.
  • Grading is an act to evaluate the overall quality of the performance or product according to some norms  of quality.
  • From the performance task assessment list ,the student  can see the quality of the pieces.
  • The points on an assessment list can be summed and an overall grade awarded.
The Science Journal
PORTFOLIOS

    The portfolio should help the student see the "big picture"  of how he or she is performing in gaining knowledge
and  skills and how effective his or her work habits are. The process of assembling the portfolio should be both integrative of process and content and reflective. It's contents should include integrated performance products that  show growth  in concept  attainment and skill development.
Portfolio: criteria for  success
  1. improve the student's performance in science
  2. promote the student's skills of self assessment and goal setting.
  3. promote a sense of ownership and pride of accomplishment in the student
  4. demonstrate a reasonable amount and quality of work
Portfolio :it's content          Evidence of the student's growth  in the five following categories

  1. range of thinking and creativity
  2. use of  scientific method
  3. inventions and  models
  4. connections between science and other subjects
  5. readings in science
Internet sites of interest

  1. www.bugscope.beckman.uiuc.edu.com
  2. www.yucky.com
  3. www.school.discovery.com
  4. www.scienceworld.com
  5. www.newscientist.com

A Quantitative Approach to Elementary Science
 Design  of  Program

The quantitative program of elementary science is designed to help students better learn science and mathematics information. In this program, they will use the techniques that scientist use when they are doing  research.
Topics
  1. Length
  2. area
  3. volume
  4. mass
  5. time
  6. force
  7. velocity/acceleration
Student Program Materials
  1.  Both a pre and post science test
  2.  Instruction sheet; which includes  -materials to be distributed to each group of two students ,a statement of what is to be determined or discovered when the investigation  is completed ,step by step directions for setting up and conducting the experiment and recording the findings on the data table(s)
  3. Data sheet; which includes- space for  a labeled drawing of the setup of  the investigation  table or tables on which data is to be recorded, any additional instructions necessary to plot the data  from the table(s) on  the graph, and questions to be answered.

Experimental skills uses
  • estimating lenght, given the size of  a unit length
  • estimating area, given the size of a unit area
  • estimating volume, given the size of a unit volume
  • estimating or calculating an average
  • constructing a bar graph or line graph
  • fitting the best possible curve on a graph
  • reading a meter stick balance, and a graduated cylinder
  • recording errors in prediction
  • using a protractor
  • drawing a map to scale
  • using a stopwatch
  • reading a caliper
  • using an equal arm balance
  • constructing and using a force gauge


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Class and Laboratory rules .
1. No playing  or joking around

2. No eating or chewing

3. Remain seated at all times

4. In the lab .protective eye wear required

5. No talking while teacher is talking

6. Science notebooks are required at all times





Grading Scale for  all science test and quizzes

A= 100-96      B=95-90  C=89-73  D=72-67

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        Ants at War

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ant fight

       Fighting an enemy until the enemy dies

Some kinds of ants are quite aggressive in protecting their nest or food . resources
The enemy sometimes may be an ant of the same species and sometimes of a
different ant species. The fight is continued until the enemy's body is dismembered
or it dies.



During a fight, a poisonous fluid called formic acid is sprayed from the edge of the gaster. Some
                        Crematogaster ants spray formic acid from above by curving the abdomen upwards behind the
                        body. The Formica ant sprays the juice from below by curving the abdomen upwards in front
                        of the body.

Are you sick of ants ?



A beautiful loop of magnetic energy large enough to encompass 40 Earth's, was spotted by NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) last Monday. Blasting off the Sun around 9:19 a.m. EDT, the loop, or 'prominence' traps hot gas and typically reaches 107,000 degrees F - considerably cooler than the Sun's atmosphere of 1 million degrees. Scientists said that if the eruption of the prominence had been aimed toward Earth, it could have disturbed our magnetosphere resulting in auroras and other space weather activity.

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Woodson North 2002 Science Fair Timetable
I. Review of  Scientific Method of Inquiry
 9/4/02-9/18/02
II. Review and Discuss  Previous  science fair student topics
 9/20/02-9/25/02
III. Student  selection and discussion  of  science fair  Prospective topics
 9/26/02-10/5/02
IV. Student  mandatory  selection  of  science fair  topic
 10/7/02-10/18/02
V.   Begin orientation of  internet research  techniques
 10/19/02-10/22/02
VI.   Science fair  internet research  begins room 210
10/23/02-11/10/02
VII.  First  presentation  of  topic reviewed and  assessed
 11/11/02-11/18/02
VIII. Science fair  practice  oral presentations
 11/19/02-11/23/02
IX.    Woodson North 's 2002  Science fair
 11/26/02
X.      Woodson North's  2002 Science Fair  awards assembly
 11/27/02

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Science Lab Tools
Science Lab Tools
Materials needed for Science Class and Laboratory
  1. Science class notebook + Science Lab. activity notebook
  2. A pair of  protective eye wear
  3. A pair of vinyl or rubber gloves
  4. Two lead pencils (no.) +  a package of colored pencils
  5. An apron or lab coat
  6. Parental permission for participation in lab activities
Breakdown of course
  1. 50% of final grade is derived from test and quizzes
  2. 20% of final grade is derived from science  class and laboratory notebooks
  3. 30% of final grade is derived from science fair participation
  4. If your science fair project  results in a 1st place student  will receive 10% bonus for test and quizzes
                 if  student project results in a 2nd place that student will receive  07% bonus for test  and quizzes ,3rd                 place students will receive  04% bonus for final test and quiz average

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