The role I have this year is different from in the past, whereas I
was in a self-contained fifth grade class for the past six years, I’ll be
moving into a departmentalized situation in middle school. I’m looking forward to
the challenges that I’ll face with middle schoolers and want to try to create
an atmosphere in my classroom where students are passionate about science.
My sixth graders will begin the year with a unit on astronomy
which will include making constellation t-shirts and reducing the solar system
to approximately 1,000 yards.
This year, my seventh grade students will be building their own
chargeable batteries out of lead sheet and magnesium sulfate, charging those
batteries on a harness, and doing experiments and math to measure force and
distance.
My eighth graders will begin the year
studying glaciers and glacial deposits with a field trip planned to study ice
age deposits on day number 4. After completing the unit on glaciers, the eighth
graders will experiment in breeding fruit flies.
As an innovative way to do a summative assessment,
students will be expected to publish their findings in each of these areas.
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