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Learning Targets for the Year
Learning Targets for the Year
These will be the 10 Learning Targets used to assess student learning this year:
• Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
• Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
• Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
• Apply Newton’s Laws of Motion to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects and plan an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
• Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
• Construct and interpret graphical displays of data to describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
• Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity. Develop and use a model to describe the role of gravity in the motions within galaxies and the solar system.
• Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms and manipulate the structure of substances to create new materials.
• Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
• Use mathematics and data to develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflect a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
What is Physics?
What is Physics?
Here is a great video that briefly covers the main principals of physics. Enjoy and I look forward to exploring this amazing subject of everything in our expanding universe with you this year!
Course Grades:
Instead of trying to earn as many points as possible in a semester, now the goal for students is to earn a 3 or 4 on each of the learning targets. Since you will have the opportunity to retake any assessment/project you do not do well on (after completing additional work), you might have several assessment/project scores to look at for each learning target. For each individual learning target, your final score for that target (a 4, 3, 2, 1, or 0) will be based on how well you’ve done on the various assessment attempts you’ve made on that learning target with a focus on what score was most consistently shown. Below is an explanation of how your final course grade will be determined.
COURSE GRADE CRITERIA
A ---Student has earned a 4 in at least seven of the learning targets and has not earned anything lower than a 3 in the other learning targets.
B ---Student has earned at least a 3 in all the learning targets.
C ---Student has earned at least a 3 in six of the learning targets and has not earned anything lower than a 2 in the other learning targets.
D ---Student has earned at least a 2 in six of the learning targets.
F ---Student has earned a 1 in four or more learning targets.
Work Habits Grade: E=No missing work, S=Fewer than 6, U=6 or more
this Year's Science Curriculum Plan
this Year's Science Curriculum Plan
Be sure to keep a Science Notebook!
Be sure to keep a Science Notebook!
You may use a college rule or composition style notebook for this class. You may also use a digital notebook, but remember all grading standards apply to all notebook styles. Click here for a Digital Science Notebook Template
Using Depth and COMPLEXITY For the Gifted Learner!
Using Depth and COMPLEXITY For the Gifted Learner!
These will be utilised to help explore our scientific concepts and then dig deeper into how these concepts affect all aspects of our lives.
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