Handouts are available below Big Idea How do you assess work habits? It sounds like a simple thing to do – we think we know good work habits when we see it – but what does it look like? Today, I’m sharing some things my colleagues have shared on how I can improve assessing…
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Handouts are available below Big Idea In my last post, I spoke about how I’m using Standards Based Assessment (or SBA) with my classes. Thanks to Kirstin Laird-Osterhout on Facebook, who posted “Thanks! Any tips for a district that still uses letter grades and percentages?” Today, I’m sharing how I’m using SBA with my…
Handouts are available below Big Idea I’ve been doing standards based assessment – also known as standards based grading – with my classes for the past 4 years. Today, I want to share a few things I’ve learned in doing Standards Based Assessment (or SBA, for short). Long story short, SBA has changed my practice…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Here’s another lab I’ve done with my students for the past few years that not only has them practice a useful lab skill – in this case, finding volume using water displacement – it also gets students to practice CER, which stands for Claim Evidence and Reasoning. This…
Handouts are available below Big Idea A great question will get students to connect and apply science in creative ways. I get a lot of positive feedback on my test questions, and since many teachers are having difficulty finding good extended response questions to use, in this post, I’m sharing 4 types of extended…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Building and testing paper airplanes is one of those simple activities I know many science teachers do to teach scientific method and that students of all ages can do. Today, I want to share what I’m doing with the paper airplane project with my students to get MORE…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Today, I want to share the 3 things I’m doing to teach CER (Claim Evidence Reasoning) this year. Long story short, the 3 things that are working for me in teaching CER is scaffolding using prompts and sentence starters, applying these prompts through everyday, informal examples, and…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Here’s a lab I’ve done with my students for the past 2 years that not only has them practice using a balance to find the mass of objects, it also gets students to practice lab skills like data analysis and drawing conclusions using the CER (Claim Evidence and Reasoning)…
Handouts are available below Big Idea It’s important to build a good culture with our colleagues in our workplace because a good culture not only makes our work more enjoyable but it also helps us be more productive together. For example, whenever there’s a change in how we do things at school – whether…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Today, I want to share this resource with you – an activity I’ve been using every year for the past 18 years of teaching. It’s an activity that teaches students about Mendeleev’s Periodic table. If you’re looking for an activity that teaches students that elements on the periodic…
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