This is the first post of the 2013-2014 school year. I have not been able to post from school. I will look into that. ...
Hello everyone. The year has gotten off to a fairly fast start. We are finishing up Unit 1 and hopefully all students will be taking the CGA pretest soon (we may start on Thursday and Friday possibly). If you are out of school on one of those days you will just take a make up. Don't worry about it. The test is two sessions of 70 minutes each so we will be very busy testing for two A and two B days.
This weekend you should have worked on your brainstorming for your science project. You listed ten topics or activities that you are interested in. Looked for connections in Fusion and Sciencesaurus (in school) and tried to find an article about the topic in a science journal, magazine, or website (like NASA not science buddies).
Yes, many of you had to do the GIZMO part C over. When you as a scientist have prior knowledge you should use it. That's what happened. Many of you didn't make the connection from A to C.
Monday/Tuesday we will go over the GIZMO and we will talk about the data you had to analyze. That's right, the mean, median, mode, and range are all talking points before you submit your final conclusion. There will be a quick song to help you with some of the data analysis. It should be fun. Bring your Fusion book to class and your ISN. Remember, you should have all your supplies including pencil, pen, tape, glue stick, ruler, color pencils and sharpener, and ISN every day. I bought some back-up glue sticks and some color pencils this weekend. I will be glad to accept donations of supplies like tape, glue sticks, sticky notes, color pencils, etc. for the table boxes. I will have some wishes posted for open house.
If you haven't watched the video about "How Science Works" or if you want to see it again then check out the posting. It's a good one to share with your parents, because when they were in school they probably learned about THE scientific method which is linear. Not like today's pinball type flow chart.
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