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Mr. Smith's 7th Grade Science Syllabus
Course Description:
Instruction will include interactive activities/labs that incorporate science and engineering practices, cooperative learning, deductive reasoning, discussion, argumentative writing using evidence, analytical reading, and reflective writing. Students are encouraged to question, form, and reform their own ideas about science concepts and processes pertinent to the South Carolina 7th grade science standards.
Goals:
My mission is to motivate and teach my students to become life-long, enthusiastic learners and effective communicators. I will help them to become fluent readers, critical thinkers, and problem solvers using the process of science and engineering practices, (SEP’s), in a student-centered, standards-based classroom. Students will be able to take their knowledge and experience and transfer it to real-life situations.
Daily Instructional Materials/Supplies Required:
We will use the Chromebooks extensively, which means there is no need for a notebook. However, students are certainly welcome to use notebooks or any other strategy that they know will help them.
Grading Scale:
A = 100-90
B = 89-80
C = 79-70
D = 69-60
F = 59-50
Grade Components:
Major Assessments- tests, major projects, benchmark tests and designated labs = 50%
Minor Assessments- classwork, quizzes, homework (if given), and designated labs/projects = 50%
Tardy/Discipline/Late Work/Make-up Work Policies:
· Tardiness will be handled as stated in the discipline plan of the student handbook. Students are considered tardy after 8:30.
· Discipline:
1st I will give a warning and the student will sign the log. If the student corrects the behavior at this time, then our goal is met!
2nd The student will sign the log and I will call home
3rd Student will sign the log and receive a teachers detention. I will call home.
4th The student will sign the log and receive a Referral. I will call home.
· Late Work: Students will receive a 10-point deduction for each day work is late. Work will be accepted after the 3rd day from the original due date, however the maximum grade will be a 60.
· Make-up Work: It is the student’s responsibility to check Google Classroom to determine what he/she has missed. The student will receive as many days as were excused to turn in work. Unexcused absence does not qualify for extra days on class work.
Classroom Procedures:
· Follow all safety and school/district rules
· Come in and begin work immediately
· Keep your work-space clean and neat at all times to avoid accidents.
***All school and district rules apply. Please also refer to Greenville County Lab Safety Contract.
Working Norms:
Be respectful
Be prepared
Be present
Be professional
Be kind
Link to SC Science Standards:
Major Units of Study:
Science and Engineering Practices
(These practices will be taught within the content of each unit below. These practices will not be taught in isolation of the content, rather within each unit of study. A brief description of these practices includes the following):
· Science investigative process-questioning, hypothesizing, testing, collecting data, data analysis, and evidence to support claims.
· Use and refinement of models to understand processes and relationships, to test devices or solutions, or communicate ideas to others.
· Using mathematical and computational thinking to analyze data and show relationships between variables, specifically using data tables, charts, and graphs.
· Construct scientific explanations using evidence, models, conclusions from experimentation, observations, and measurements.
· Identify needs or problems, generate, develop, test, re-test solutions, and communicate results.
Standards/Units are subject to change in order taught from what is listed below.
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