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4th Grade Syllabus
4th Grade Science
Syllabus and Classroom Expectations
Teacher: Ms. Julie Moore
julie.moore@fayette.kyschools.us
Syllabus
We will be studying the following topics this semester
Energy Conversions
Vision and Light
Earth’s Features
Waves, Energy and Information
Classwork:
Students will have a daily assignment in science. Each assignment will be worth 25 points. Classwork will be posted on our Canvas site daily. The assignments generally will be submitted as paper copies. [In Canvas, it will denote the submission type as “on paper”.] My expectation is that the work be completed during our class time together, however, students are welcome/expected to finish/revise the work as homework if they are not finished. All classwork is due to be submitted at the beginning of the following class period.
Quality Work
Why Quality Work Expectations?
Teaching students to produce quality work is about teaching them about craftsmanship, complexity, and purposeful work.
Attributes of Craftsmanship
Accuracy, detail, and beauty.
Craftsmanship requires perseverance to refine work in conception, conventions, and presentation, typically through revisiting/revising, multiple drafts or rehearsals with critique from others (adults or peers).
Craftsmanship understands and considers the audience of their work, both through penmanship and communication standards.
Attributes of Complexity
Logical, relevant, and complete
Complex work is rigorous: it aligns with or exceeds the expectations defined by grade-level standards and includes higher-order thinking by challenging students to apply, analyze, evaluate, and create during daily instruction and throughout longer projects.
Quality Work applies to all submitted assignments-- it does not apply to work that students do in their science notebooks. Science notebooks are for processing information. Work that is turned in is considered a product to be reviewed by another person and therefore should be of quality.
Quality Work Expectations
The paper is dated and includes your first and last name.
Take credit and pride by claiming your work. The date gives the work a space in time.
The assignment is complete, no blank answers.
The work should have a sense of completion (for the maker) and a feeling of closure (for the audience). There is an overall complete feeling to the final project. Nothing is left unfinished.
Your work is done with legible penmanship or word process (when appropriate). You use correct punctuation and capitalization. There are no doodles or extraneous writing in the margins. Work has purpose. Words on the paper, in the question, or in the related text are spelled correctly. Mistakes are erased
Pride is taken in presentation of the work by making the reading of the work smooth for the audience. The eye of the audience is able to move through the work logically and able to clearly interpret all information in the work. Reader is not unnecessarily distracted by carelessness, unnecessarily misspelling, or mess.
Your answers are logical; make sure you answer the question. Questions are answered in complete sentences unless otherwise specified.
The work is relevant and has a level of complexity that matches the task. “I don’t know” (or any variation of this) is not an acceptable answer. Please ask questions BEFORE the assignment is due, so that you DO know.
Students are expected to complete all work that is submitted using quality work expectations as guidance. Not following quality work expectations may result in a deduction of points (up to 10 points).
Projects and Assessments
Students will be given an assessment at the end of each unit. This assessment will be worth 100 points. There may also be projects completed in class, they will be worth the equivalent for the number of class days-- for example, if the project is four class periods, it would be worth 100 points.
Late Assignments
It is critically important that homework assignments are completed on time. Our work is cumulative so not completing one assignment will leave students unprepared for the next day’s lesson. When a student does not do his/her classwork assignment, he/she will not receive the full benefits of participation in classroom discussions and the opportunity to ask questions about what he/she does not understand. Incomplete/late assignments will be deducted one point per day they are not turned in, with a maximum of 10 points deducted.
Classroom Rules
In order for our class to run as smoothly as possible, I simply ask all students to follow the SCAPA’s Employability Standards: :
On Time
On Task
Respectful Interactions with Peers and/or Teachers
Prepared to Perform/Organized
Appropriate Use of Electronics
Students’ progress on these standards will be recorded in SCAPA’s EOS system and be used to determine behavior progress on the student report cards that are published quarterly.