Welcome to Living Environment!

All nerds of all levels are welcomed and encouraged to show and be their best nerd selves!

My name is Ms. Zaino and I'm incredibly excited to work with you this year, a year that is sure to be one for the books! As you can tell, I want to be Ms. Frizzle when I grow up! What do you want to be?

Below you will find all sort of fascinating information about our science community. Information about office hours, class expectations and links to our class Google Classrooms. If you have questions that are not addressed on this page or the HOME page, please feel free to email us at jlzaino@metropolitanels.com or phankerson@metropolitanels.com

Ms. Hankerson

Hi, my name is Ms. Hankerson. I'm looking forward to the learning, exploring and creating we will do together. Your perception of science will change. Change is good, I should know, I change my hair almost every six months. What color should I do next? I also like to travel, (the good ole days) what's your favorite vacation you've been on?

Classroom Expectations

Beginning of Class Routine

Once you enter into Zoom, you will have 1 minute to get yourself settled and ready for class (make sure your camera is turned on!) - you are expected to be present and engaged just like when we are in school together.
You will then have 5 minutes to work independently on the warm up for the day while on mute.
Our share outs about our warm up will be whole class and we'll share out what we wrote and revise to make them better!

Restroom Use

Just like in school, attendance is being taken - please send a message (to just me in) the chat to ask permission to use the restroom.

Homework

Homework assignments are given almost every class. These assignments are designed to be worked on during our 2.5 hour class block if time is used well. Homework assignments will be checked or "collected" each time they are assigned and must be turned in by the date that they are due( that information will be in GC).

Assessments

If it is an assignment that I am "collecting," I will grade it and give you feedback on your work. You may not know if it is an assignment is graded or not so make sure you use your notebook and study hall resources to do your best work - all of the time!

If it is an assignment that you can make corrections on after I have given feedback, make corrections to your work by rewriting your answer below your original one in a different color for a higher grade. Then, resubmit. You will see the weight of assignments in Jumprope. Please do not ask.

Jumprope

Jumprope is where all your grades for assignments will live. I will do my best to update it at least once every 2 weeks with any graded work that was submitted.

Office Hours

Study hall will take place on A1and A2 days from 1:00-1:30 PM. Feel free to drop in for part of the time or stay the whole time. Ask questions, finish assignments, work with your classmates in a breakout room. It's up to you how you want to use the time!

Zoom Information:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88031141505?pwd=ellUUzRKMWlRQlM5bWVKMG5iTndoQT09
Meeting ID: 880 3114 1505
Passcode: 719987

LE Class Sections

Based on how your class is labeled in Jumprope, you will join the respective class, either 1, 2, 3 or 4. These GC pages will have all the information you need for your class including announcements, course work and graded assignments.

LE 1 Class code y4bmpz7

LE 2 Class code o7nm5rj

LE 3 Class code vlmzxo2

LE 4 Class code vnj4n5q

Resources

This section will be changing based on what we are studying and what you need. Feel free to suggest what you want to see happen in this section!