Farmington Jr. High7th grade Integrated Science

Ms. Purdy

My goal and perspective is to be a facilitator not a distributor.

I want to help my students create their own knowledge, to make it theirs.

Teaching Strategies and their Effectiveness:

-90% Use learning to teach others -75% Practice and real application -50% Discussion group-30% Demonstration-20% Audio visual-10% Reading-5% Lecture

Course Objectives:

Students will…

develop an understanding that all substances are made of smaller parts and are themselves parts of larger wholes.

When parts come together, the whole often has properties that are very different from its parts…. AND ….

Students will use science as a process of obtaining knowledge based on observable evidence.

Through hands-on explorations and inquiry-based projects and activities, students will come to a better understanding of how the pieces of science work together and play a part in our lives.

State Core Curriculum STANDARD I:

Students will understand the structure of matter.

STANDARD II:Students will understand the relationship

between properties of matter and Earth’s structure.

STANDARD III:Students will understand that the organs in

an organism are made of cells that have structures and perform specific life functions.

Standard IV:

Offspring inherit traits that make them more or less suitable to survive in the environment.

Standard V: Structure is used to develop

classification systems.

Grade Breakdown

• Notebook/Daily Work 25%• Daily Quizzes 25% • Tests 25%• Projects 25%

You will get two grades in Junior High for each class:

One letter grade: A, A-, B+, B etc.and

One citizenship (conduct) grade: – H=honor, – G=good– S=satisfactory– N=needs improvement– U=unsatisfactory

GRADING SCALE

A- 93-90B+ 89-87B 86-84B- 83-80C+ 79-75

C 74-70C- 69-65D+ 64-60D 59-55D- 54-50F 49-0

Citizenship stays up when you …

…are not tardy, raise your hand to speak out loud, use indoor voice, keep chair on all four legs, not sit on tables, stay on

task, keep your hands to yourself and your own belongings, stay on websites approved by the teacher, come to class

prepared with class supplies, stay in your seat when instruction is being given, put lab supplies away, clean your work area, engage appropriately in class discussion, tuck in

your chair as you leave, pick up trash around your work area, don’t chew gum or eat candy, get along with others, listen to others speak when it’s their turn, complete all work honestly, work constructively and quietly when there is down time and

respect the property of others.

Absent/Late WorkTo make up the work you will need to go to my webpage calendar and click on the day you were absent to find the activity you missed.

Attach a correctly filled out absence slip and turn it in with the late work to the wire basket.

If the Absence is excused, work will be due within three days of the day it was given otherwise each day it is late the assignment will lose 5 pts.

Making up Work

Daily Calendar Work: This goes in your notebook. Notebooks are graded about every two weeks. If late turn in with absence slip.Bell Quizzes: No Make Up. I will call you into an SRC if needed.Post Tests: Take these online by clicking in the left nav. of my website and taking the test. Print off your score and attach an absence slip.Pre Tests: No make up.Projects: Turn in with absence slip.

Classroom Violations1st time rule violation, student warned of violation.2nd time rule violation, conference with student and intervention.3rd time rule violation, parents are notified.4th time rule violation, administrator intervention.

Supplies needed: Composition Notebook

-Working pencils with erasers.

Flash Drive opt.

Zippered Pouch opt.

Yellow ‘Post-its’(This size please)

I have some we can share if you aren’t able to purchase your own.

Get extra-credit AND/OR win a prize with Box Tops for

Education• The science department purchases lab supplies and

technology for use in the classrooms with the extra credit box tops.

• Check for expiration then neatly cut them out and Glue/staple/tape them to a Box Top form.

• Forms are found in the classroom or on my webpage.• Turn them in the box top bucket near the end of each term.• Fifty box tops for extra credit will give 3% or ½ grade increase.• for more info on ways to earn Box Tops, go to

www.boxtopsforeducation.com

• Student with the most box tops in their class wins a Soda!!!!

• Student with the most box tops out of all my classes wins a personalized goodie basket of your favorite things!!!

How you can help your student:

Purchase suppliesCheck their notebook for understanding

of the days learning.Encourage them to write neat, complete

and thoughtful. Encourage and support, but don’t ‘do’

their projects for them.Check to see if they understand what

they missed on the Reviews.Use online textbook as one of many

resources.

Watch for grade print outs to come home to be signed near midterm

and terms end.

End of Level Testing…Is usually scheduled around the first week of

May. Please plan vacations around this time.May

Cell Phones/ipods, itouches etc.

Unless individual teachers say otherwise, electronic devices including Cell Phones are to be left off except before and after school and during lunch.

If parents need to get in touch with their student they are encouraged to do so through the office secretary.

The Utah State Science Core requires that 7th grade Science curriculum cover cellular sexual and asexual reproduction.

Periodically, I will have students trade a quiz, test, or assignment with a peer to grade. This practice has an important educational purpose in that it allows the student to review assignments and consider problem solving that may be different than their own.

Thank you for coming!

Ms. Purdy7th grade Integrated Science

7:45-8:00 & 2:55-3:15 (after school is preferred so I have

time to set up labs)cpurdy@dsdmail.net