Friday, June 5, 2009

The New Site for Earth Science

I am starting a new site for the 2009-2010 (MS)^3 Earth Science class. It should make it easier to find work, notes etc. The address is
http://ms3earthscience.blogspot.com/

I will be adding the pdf to the wiki soon.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Monday, May 11, 2009

Using the Hall carts


I have just got out the Hall carts, and three of them have broken in one day of use. I have the students at their tables and the carts fall off. A suggestion might be to work on the floor.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

NWEA Science Scores

District 51 has not set performance levels, here are the national scores.

NWEA Normative Data Sheet

NWEA Norms

Sunday, April 26, 2009

The Latest News

I met with Rick, Cindy, Maggie and Gigi on Friday to talk about this summer, here is what came from it.
1. Gigi Richard will focus on natural disasters, hurricanes, volcanoes earthquakes and more as a topic for our course.
2. There are 15 people enrolled in the science side.
3. Heidi and I will be leading the teaching side
4. The on-line part might be a piece of non-fiction literature like John Mcphee's Control of Nature

I want to work in field trips and interactive notebooks, what would you like to see?

Friday, April 17, 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

News About This Summer

Rumor has it that we will be taught this summer by Gigi Richard.