Students ended up with the whole period as time to complete the posters, take notes on posters presented by other groups and study for the test next class.
Test on 2/2/2011 Biodiversity/Activism/Biomes ~150 points; part multi-choice, part short answer and an essay that can be finished at home.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Biomes Poster and Test update
In effort to encourage students to produce meaningful posters and to better prepare for the upcoming test I extended the poster due date to Monday of next week. Students will only have enough time to paste print outs on to the posters during class Monday. The test will be on Wednesday with a take home essay that may be completed in class.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Biomes poster
Today is the second and last day students have had to research information about a specific biome. On Thursday students will create posters to share the information with the class and there will be time for test review. Students will have a test on biodiversity/environmental justice/biomes next Tuesday.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Seed lab Final draft
Students had ~ 60 minutes to write the final draft of the lab. So many students are not turning in work this semester I required all students to turn in labs today completed or not. If the lab was turned in today as incomplete the student may complete it and turn in a completed lab for up to full credit next class.
Endangered Speiceis Biography & Activism presentations
Presentations were scheduled to be on 1/13/2011; only three groups were prepared. I offered the remaining four groups a chance to present on 1/18 for late credit. Only one group presented for late credit.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Seed Germination lab
Students set up and started the seed germination lab where they will compare germination rates under varied conditions.
Students need to come to class everyday (Tuesday and Thursday) to collect data. 40 points of the 140 point lab are earned by doing the daily data collection. I am available before school, at lunch and after school on Tuesday.
Data collection and clean up will be on Friday and Wednesday of next week students will have time in the computer lab to construct the final draft of the lab.
Students need to come to class everyday (Tuesday and Thursday) to collect data. 40 points of the 140 point lab are earned by doing the daily data collection. I am available before school, at lunch and after school on Tuesday.
Data collection and clean up will be on Friday and Wednesday of next week students will have time in the computer lab to construct the final draft of the lab.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Semester Grades
I gave out semester grade sheets on 1/4/2011. The grade sheets provide detailed assignment data used for determinging semester grades. I give these grade sheets to students for their use, they are not requried to have them signed by a parent.
Endangered Species Biography & Activism Project
Finals week in teams of two students were introduced to the project, they had ~100-120 minutes to conduct research on a species and activism type.
On 1/4/2011 Students were to use the research, a template and rubric to write an essay on the activism type and the endangered species. Each student writes one of the two papers for an individual grade out of 80 points.
On 1/6/2011 students were given to plan out their presntation (a rough draft/outline of presentation is due at end of period for 20 point, group grade.
Presentation will be next week.
On 1/4/2011 Students were to use the research, a template and rubric to write an essay on the activism type and the endangered species. Each student writes one of the two papers for an individual grade out of 80 points.
On 1/6/2011 students were given to plan out their presntation (a rough draft/outline of presentation is due at end of period for 20 point, group grade.
Presentation will be next week.
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