K8 Science Resource Adoption

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K-8 Science Resource Adoption

• K-8 Science Resource Adoption Committee
• Jessica Boland Suzi Mast

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• Inquiry
• provides an opportunity for all students to
  engage in problem solving, communication, and
  thinking skills that they will need to be
  effective workers and citizens in the
  twenty-first century.
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  Inquiry and the NSES, page XII

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K-8 Committee Processes

• 60 day public display and public notice
• Teacher, Administrator and Parent feedback/review
  
• Science Publisher Presentations
• Initial Review of the Science Resources Inquiry
• Adaptation of NRC textbook Inquiry analysis
  process
• Overall science resource evaluation
• Adaptation of Project 2061 textbook analysis
  process
• Committee data analysis and next step decisions
• Additional data analysis of overall science
  resources
• Committee data analysis and next step decisions
• Analysis by unit
• Performance objective alignment
• Pedagogy/instructional in-depth analysis
• Committee Consensus and Recommendation to the
  Board

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• The intention of the KSD science curriculum and
  resources is to improve the quality of student
  learning by enabling them to acquire the
  abilities of inquiry, develop knowledge of
  scientific ideas, and understand the work of
  scientists.
• Inquiry and the
  NSES, page 11

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Elementary School Science Decisions

• Kit based for Inquiry and hands-on experiences
• Additional 60 day review of materials to cover
  content through trade books and additional unit
  resources and kits
• Vendors include
• FOSS Full Option Science Systems
• STC Science, Technology, and Children
• SRP Powering our Future
• This adoption will not be a drastic change in
  what we currently do to teach science, but it
  will be new and improved!!!

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Resources by Grade Level

• Kindergarten
• FOSS Air Weather
• New Plants
• First Grade
• FOSS Air Weather
• Pebbles, Sand, Silt
• Second Grade
• FOSS Air Weather
• Insects
• STC Solids, Liquids, Gases

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Resources by Grade Level

• Third Grade
• FOSS Structures of Life
• Physics of Sounds
• STC Animal Studies
• Fourth Grade
• FOSS Water
• Magnetism Electricity
• STC Animal Studies
• SRP Powering Our Future Gr. 4-6
• Fifth Grade
• FOSS Human Body
• Planetary Science
• Levers Pulleys
• STC Ecosystems

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Middle School Science Decisions

• Kit based for Inquiry and hands-on experiences
• Textbook for content and additional hands-on
• experiences
• Vendors include
• McDougal Littell Middle School Science
• Prentice Hall Science Explorers
• SEPUP - Science Education for Public
  Understanding Program
• STC MS Science, Technology Concepts for Middle
  School
• SRP Powering our Future
• Arizona Science Center Bioengineering Kits
• Pasco Probe ware and Unit specific curriculum

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Resources by Grade Level

• Sixth Grade
• McDougal Cells Heredity
• Earth Atmosphere
• Human Body
• Earths Water
• Prentice Hall Bacteria to Plants
• STC MS Experiment with Plants
• Human Body
• SEPUP Micro-Life
• Bioengineering Water Our bioengineered
  resource
• Genetically modified foods in my school yard
• SRP Powering Our Future Gr. 6-8
• Pasco Measuring Matter

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Resources by Grade Level

• Seventh Grade
• McDougal Earths Surface
• Changing Earth
• Space Ecology
• Life Over Time
• SEPUP Micro-Life
• Ecology and Evolution
• Earth Science and Shaping
• Rocks Minerals

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Resources by Grade Level

• Eighth Grade
• McDougal Motion Forces
• Cells Heredity
• Chemical Interactions
• Matter Energy
• STC MS Energy Machines
• Properties of Matter
• Pasco Measuring Matter
• Noodling with Newtons

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• The best scientist is open to experience and
  begins with romance - the idea that anything is
  possible.
• - Ray
  Bradbury