SCIENCE

Students have chosen their experiments and have gathered their materials. Some lists were made to bring materials from home. After reviewing their plan on Monday, the experiments will be done on Tuesday and Wednesday. The backboards will be created on Thursday.

Nightly homework will be determined by how the specific team has progressed. This means that not all students will have the same homework and that they will need to work hard on writing down and remembering their task for their team.

Some students have requested experiments that are not in the options we have planned. I will need to make sure that the parents agree to their plan. An e-mail would be fine telling me that your child is doing (or has done) the experiment at home.

Student Resources can be found starting on page 756. This is a section that we started sixth grade science with and the way we will be concluding it.

• The student will receive a test grade for their science experiment.

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• 1. Write up of the experiment on the worksheet given 50%

• 2. (a) Performance of the experiment

(b) Witten conclusions

• 3. Worked well with partner(s) 10%

• 4. Backboard 10%

Seventh Grade Science

Next test grade will be a note-taking sheet and is due Friday, June 5.

This will be over several body systems. We will have the information in class every day so the student should take notes. The note packet will count as a test grade

Eighth Grade Science

A copy of the note that was given to the eighth graders is below.

There are two science grades remaining. The first one is your PowerPoint project and presentation. This is a test grade. The second grade counts for a quiz grade and is the answers to all of your classmate’s questions about their presentations.

The second grade may not be completed until Friday. DO NOT FORGET TO TURN IN THIS FINAL WORK! It will hurt your grade in Science unnecessarily if you were to ignore answering the questions or forget to turn them in.

Good Luck!

Presentation Evaluation

Name of Student: Date:

Preparation

Student was prepared for the presentation and demonstrated knowledge of the material.

5 Completely prepared, practiced presentation.

4 Prepared, some evidence of practice.

3 Understood material, some knowledge incomplete, and no practice.

2 Read material from slide, did not appear to be ready.

1 Not ready for any part of the presentation.

Power point slides

Slides are an accurate representation of the topic.

Effort was shown in the way the slides were designed.

5 Excellent quality of slides

4 Good quality of slides

3 Slides are correct and show some effort

2 Slides have few inaccuracies, some effort demonstrated.

1 Slides are incorrect or show no effort.

Speaking

Presenter speaks loudly and clearly enough to be heard and only occasionally refers to notes.

2 Successful use of speaking skills

1 Little use of speaking skills

Organization

Presentation includes introduction, information linked together in a clear way, and a summary or conclusion.

2 Presentation is organized

1 Presentation is disorganized

Provided test questions yes/no (5 points or 0)

Worked well with partner 1 2 3 4 5

Were attentive and respectful during

Other students presentation yes/no (5 points or 0)

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