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I am all about finding exciting and relevant ways to teach my fifth graders about science. I have been thing about how to use the game of ping pong to teach our forces and motions unit. Can someone help me with some ideas?
> On 5/06/13, Kim Tingle wrote: > >> Is your school letting science teachers administer > >> oral/admin Biology and Chemistry EOC exams? Our district > >> has assigned ESL and SPED teachers with no Biology or > >> Chemistry background to administer these tests. The > >> administration manual says ' . . . must be familiar with > >> content-specific content and symbols . . . for accurate > >> administration'. Just wondering what other schools are > >> doing, I think Biology and Chemistry teachers should give > >> these exams. I'll contact TEA tomorrow for an opinion, but > >> I was wondering what you think? >
On 5/11/13, Laura wrote: > I'm trying to make my curriculum more exciting by doing > more demos for the students. Anyone care to share their > favorite chemistry demonstration?
I keep hearing about these new common core standards, so today I tried to see what they were for my subject (Biology) and I can't seem to find anything. I find writing standards, which seem to be the same thing for every subject, but that's it.
Where in the world are these so called standards for each subject?
Common Core Standards were developed for mathematics and ELA.
As part of the ELA standards, there are Literacy Standards for science and technical subjects, but these are not science standards. They specify the literacy skills and understandings needed for science.
The Next Generation Science Standards
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ARE science standards. There were released last month. These standards specify content, and identify scientific practices and cross-cutting concepts.
They are also aligned to the both the mathematics and ELA Common Core standards.
Yes and no. I'm technically retiring - I'm leaving public schools. But I"m not *really* retiring, I'm going to teach in a private school here