Welcome to Science Class!!!

Here is a brief rundown of last week:

Monday

• basic rules of the classroom, procedures, and grading information

Tuesday & Wednesday--Teaching Point: How do interactive notebooks help us in science class? (p. 4)

• We discussed the interactive notebooks we will be using for the year in science class (handout on p.5)
• We learned how we use the left and right sides of the book differently--right side is for teacher input (notes, readings, discussions) and the left side is for students to synthesize what they have learned that day.  
• Homework in the note book will be frequent 2-4 times per week and will be checked 2-3 times per week.
• We created an acrostic poem as a class to help us understand what should go on the right side of their notebook, using the words "RIGHT SIDE"
• HOMEWORK students should create an acrostic poem of their own using the words "LEFT SIDE" to help them remember what activities can be used to synthesize the day's lesson.

Thursday--TP: How do scientists learn about the world around them? (p.6)

• We watched a short video of a young surfer who uses science to catch the perfect wave.
• We discussed the steps our young scientist took to find the answer to his quest.
• We created a foldable that listed and described the steps of the scientific method (to put on p. 7 in their notebooks).
• Homework was for students choice to create a mnemonic device or a bubble map to help them remember the steps of the scientific method. Should be completed on p. 6 of the notebook and is due Tuesday.

Friday

• We learned a warm up we will be doing every Thursday.  It is from a book titled "Skills Workshop: Reading in the Content Area".  
• This will be used as a diagnostic tool for both ELA and Science to help students become aware of what reading skills they need to work on. 
• The remainder of the period was used for students to finish putting science notebooks together.
• In some classes, we watched a short movie on the Scientific Method.