Reflecting on Experiences

Take some time today to reflect on your learning in science class.  Think about the learning you feel was most important or meaningful to you in our last unit.  You can think about the project, test preparation, or anything else that has been meaningful to your learning.

It does not need to be directly related to learning science.  Did you feel your learning developed in how you learn, think or act?

You will write a 1-2 paragraph reflection in a new post your portal (blog).  Some ideas that might help you:

Reflections show growth: The simple phrase "I used to think...now I think..." can be an easy way to communicate your new understanding.

Reflections admit short comings:  It is hard for anyone to admit challenges or mistakes.  Yet, as you write about these things an amazing thing happens: your brain searches for ways to improve in the future.  This is learning.

Reflections point others to the things that worked: Summarizing what worked well can also be a powerful way to not only show yourself learning, but help others to learn too.  Consider sharing your reflections on your portal.

For some other simple ways to write reflections check out this document.  Pages 3 & 4 have some helpful ways to communicate your reflections.

Science Test Info & Study Help

Next week we will have our first major science test this year:

6.1, 6.2, 6.3 - Tuesday, November 5
6.4 - Wednesday, November 6

All the help you need is in the unit goals and resources. To focus your studying, please find this Study Group Doc that connects you with the most imporant resources to help you study.   The 4 areas found in this document to study for the test include:

1. Writing a hypothesis
2. Metric measurement coversion (length)
3. Unit goals on Soil and Erosion
4. Science Vocabulary

Please feel free to send questions or write your thinking down and email me for feedback about any area in which you are feeling unclear.

Science Project Survey

We just finished with our first project.  Please take a moment to reflect on the project.  Your response will give us useful feedback that will help us to design more useful projects this year.

Thanks so much for your help with this!

Note: You must be logged in to your AISB Google account to submit

Student Unit Goals

You are expected to understand each unit goal by the end of this unit.

Students have worked hard to create material that can be useful to your understanding of each unit goal.  Please take time to visit this document when you finished your project and add anything that was helpful to your understanding of the unit goal or driving questions.

The doc will be used by everyone in the grade.

It will also be added to your main unit blog post (see pic below - it is the one you see by clicking the unit tab).

Now you can access student unit goals from the main unit blog post

Rubric: Soil, Erosion, Landforms Presentation

Please find your rubric for this project.

Notice that you will get feedback on your critical thinking, feedback, and final presentation in class.

Your focus for the project should be on critical thinking, your thinking while you present, as well as your openness to use others thinking to help you think more deeply and clearly.

While your class appreciates well decorated and polished projects, the focus should be on how you are thinking.  Thinking is the focus of this assessment.

click link to read the whole rubric