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Below you may download a copy of the materials shared during Stacey Osborne's session at the 3C Conference. Enjoy!
Download Monster Offspring Activity
Download Classification Websites
Download Inherited or Learned Behaviors sorting activity
Download Classification Standards for Journal
Download Heredity standards for Journal
This presentation was shared at the 3C Conference on Jan. 31st at the KSU Center. It features a number of foldables that can be used to formatively assess student learning. Sample templates of some of the foldables are provided.
Download Foldable Formative Assessments Presentation
Download Venn Diagram - Matter
This is a 3rd Grade presentation on Heat Energy. It uses many ideas and resources from AIMS. Each elementary school has AIMS books in the media centers for checkout.
Download S3P1 Teacher Background
Below you will find a copy of the 21st Century Thinking Skills presentation shared at the Jan. 31st 3C Conference.
Download 21st Century Thinking Skills - Presentation
Funding for 3rd through 8th Grade Public School Classrooms to Execute Projects to Benefit the Environment!
1. What's available? Disney's Planet Challenge is offering a Double Your Impact match offer for hands-on environmental project(s) submitted by 3rd through 8th grade teachers requesting up to $650 in materials.
2. Who qualifies? If you are a full-time 3rd through 8th grade teacher at a public school, you can qualify for this funding!
3. How do I participate? There are two easy steps to qualify for this funding:
4. Then what happens? Within a week of project approval, if your projects meets the above criteria, you will see a Disney's Planet Challenge logo on your project page. This means it has qualified for this match offer and now has a great chance of being fully funded by the other donors that visit our site.
By now I'm sure you've heard a lot of buzz about the roll out of the new Common Core. You know that Common Core (CCGPS) is focused on ELA & Math. So as a teacher who also teaches science, you may be wondering where the Common Core standards for science are. There aren’t Common Core standards for science. Content standards for science were not included in the scope of work during the development of the Common Core standards for ELA & Math. This does not mean that science is not impacted by the roll-out of the CCGPS. The new CCGPS for ELA require a shift in focus from mostly narrative to more informational text. This increased focus on informational text will provide teachers with greater opportunities to integrate science instruction meaningfully into their literacy blocks. This integration will not replace the need for instructional time devoted to hands-on inquiry science, but will enable teachers to deepen student understanding of the concepts about which they are learning through reading and writing.
The science content standards are NOT changing with the implementation of CCGPS. In the 2012-2013 school year we will still be responsible for teaching the same science GPS we have taught since 2006. New national science standards are on the horizon, but they are at least 2 years away from implementation. If you’re interested in learning more about the new Next Generation Science Standards, please visit www.nextgenscience.org.
