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Course Outline and Grades
Course Outline and Grades
NGSS and IQWST
NGSS and IQWST
We follow the Next Generation Science Standards and IQWST is our curriculum. Click here if you would like more specific information.
We follow the Next Generation Science Standards and IQWST is our curriculum. Click here if you would like more specific information.
Where Have All the Creatures Gone?
Where Have All the Creatures Gone?
This ecosystem unit focuses on organisms’ needs for survival and what happens when those needs are not met. Over the course of the unit investigation, students discover why food is important, how different structures are needed by organisms to eat and reproduce, what the relationships are between organisms (e.g. predator/prey, producer/consumer, parasite/host, and competition), and what abiotic factors affect ecosystems.
Guiding Questions:
What can cause populations to change?
What food is for living things?
How do living things get food from other organisms?
How do organisms compete?
Do abiotic factors affect populations?
How can I smell things at a distance?
How can I smell things at a distance?
This book focuses on the particle nature of matter. Students experience, model, and explain a variety of laboratory and everyday phenomena related to core ideas about matter and its interactions and, more specifically, the structure and properties of matter. The unit uses the widely experienced phenomenon of humans’ ability to smell odors to contextualize the science ideas.
Guiding Questions:
How does an odor get from the source to my nose?
What makes one odor different from another?
How can a material change so you can smell it?
Grades
Grades
Classwork: 30%
You are forming knowledge, not mastered yet
Usually 2 pts (2 - complete, 1 - partially done, 0 - incomplete)
Examples: bookwork, short response, discussion participation
Test Grades: 70%
You are showing what you know - Level of Mastery
Graded for accuracy
Quiz, Test, Lab Reports, Projects
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