Science: Grades 6-12

Middle School Teacher Notes

Teacher notes are intended to provide parameters for unpacking and teaching the GPS standards and elements. The notes do not replace the GPS curriculum and should not broaden the courses. For understanding what is tested on CRCT DO NOT use the Teacher Notes, but rather rely only upon the Content Descriptors.

Here are the Teacher Notes for 6th Grade Download GaDOETeachersNotes6thgradeDraft , for 7th Grade  Download GaDOEdraftTeacher Notesgrade7 , and for 8th Grade  Download GaDOEdraftTeacherNotes8thgrade 

Discussions at the State level will be found during an Elumuniate Session, see URL below in email from Steve Rich.

thanks for participating

George

Please share this email with all middle school science teachers in your

school, system, or region.

The middle school webinars for our Teachers' Notes project start Monday,

December 7 at 3:30 pm with 6th grade, followed by 7th grade Tuesday at

3:30, and Wednesday - 8th grade at 3:30. Here are the DRAFT documents and

the Elluminate webinar link.

These sessions are for teacher feedback. Please join us and make comments

on the samples we share and any other part of the draft documents.

Thank you,

Steve

Steve A. Rich, NBCT

K-8 Science Program Specialist

Presidential Awards Coordinator

Division of Academic Standards

Georgia Department of Education

1754 Twin Towers East

Atlanta, GA 30334

404-463-1977 phone

404-651-8582 fax

srich@doe.k12.ga.us

http://gadoe.org

MS AC Course Input

The Science & Advanced Learning departments are in the process of developing specific curricula for the advanced content courses in grades 6, 7, & 8 -- answering the question, "So how is it different?"

We wanted to get input from our experienced middle and high school science teachers, regarding the skills and content that are essential for success in high school courses.  The responses & survey questions are below.  The MS AC Science committee will be using these data to inform their decisions.  Thanks for your input.  :-)

Download AC Science Input MS

Download AC Science Input HS

PassKey 2009 Handbook & other resources

Here is the booklet that we give to students. Download ScienceBk_PassKey2009 

The State DOE ran a summer school program with additional links. Go to:

https://www.georgiastandards.org/Resources/Pages/Tools/ExPreSS.aspx

Living on the Ocean Planet Video Contest

 

Who is eligible?

Any student enrolled in a high school in the United States is eligible to submit a video. We encourage students to work in teams!

Top Prize:

An invitation to the 2010 NOSB Finals Competition in St. Petersburg, FL on April 23-25 at the University of South Florida.

Download 2010VideoContestFlyer

Download 2010 NOSB Video Contest

Deadline for Video Submission:

Monday, January 25, 2010

For more details:

www.nosb.org

 

GSTA Awards Information

The start of school is a busy time of year!   It is the perfect time to be thinking of the wonderful lessons, labs, and experiments that would benefit your students.  Do you have the equipment or materials necessary to accomplish these goals?  Right now many teachers are adjusting to decreased budgets, limited supplies, and elimination of resources they have gotten for years.  If this describes you, then you should consider applying for one of the GSTA’s mini-grants.  Teachers can earn up to $500.00 to fund classroom projects to enhance student understanding of the Georgia Performance Standards. We also have awards to recognize excellence in teaching, administration, and funding to attend conferences.  How cool would it be win any of these? Plus winners are provided complimentary registration to the GSTA annual conference.  This year we will be in lovely Savannah, GA on February11-13, and we hope to see you there!

Download the application packet or e-mail gstaawards@gmail.com for more information.  The deadline to apply for awards is November 30, 2009.  

Download 09-10 GSTA AWARDS Information

Don't forget to submit your proposal to present at the GSTA Conference. New for 09-10 GSTA has gone 100% digital!  Presentation proposal survey link: http://tinyurl.com/2010gstapresprop