WELCOME to Ms. G-West

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WELCOMEto Ms. G-Westsscience class!
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A little bit about me

• This is my 14th year teaching science (13th year
  at LMS)
• Received my BA in Biology at CU-Boulder
• Teaching certification also from CU-Boulder
• I also have a M.Ed. am NBCT
• Love it here!

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7th grade (curriculum map course description-on
website)

• Topics covered during the year
• Semester 1
• Scientific Method, Characteristics of Living
  Things, Cell Theory, Chemical Cycles, Genetics,
  Natural Selection/Evolution
• Semester 2
• Diversity of Life, Classification, Viruses
  Bacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, Animals,
  Animal Behavior, Body Systems
• Quizzes every week
• students have homework every night-studying for
  that weeks quiz and finishing any assignments not
  completed in class!
• Keys to success
• I believe that middle school is about
• learning how to interact socially around the
  content
• developing a deep understanding of the science
  concepts, and
• developing organizational and learning strategies
  for the content

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8th grade (curriculum map course description-on
website)

• Topics covered during the year
• Semester 1
• safety, scientific method, properties of matter,
  rocks minerals, earth processes, chemistry
• Semester 2
• earths oceans, acids, bases, salts, hydrologic
  cycle, meteorology climate, solar system,
  astronomy, physics
• This curriculum covers the 8th grade advanced
  earth science concepts as well as the 9th grade
  advanced physical science concepts.
• Completion of this class does not mean that every
  student should skip 9th grade physical science.
  That is dependent on the students themselves as
  well as the particular high school they will be
  attending.
• Quizzes every other Friday
• students have homework every night-studying for
  quizzes, finishing assignments and labs, and
  often reading!
• Keys to success
• I believe that middle school is about
• learning how to interact socially around the
  content
• developing a deep understanding of the science
  concepts, and

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Class expectations

• Students should come prepared
• daily to class with
• planner, writing implement, science notebook (do
  not lose!!)
• lined graph paper
• Consequences (1 check)
• for not being prepared (not having materials),
  not having an assignment, coming late, chewing
  gum, general class misconduct.
• 3 checkslunch detention (w/me)
• Calling parent/guardian
• -6 checks
• -or when summative assignment is more than 2
  days late!

• Ways to contact me (e-mail) anne.gallager_at_bvsd.or
  g
• (located on the LMS website my website)
• Please check IC grades often-redos/late work
  graded before the end of semester
• My website
• updated 1x/week-(usually on Friday)
• Go to LMS website-next to my name
• I will contact you occasionally via
  schoolmessenger (mass e-mail)
• Extra help
• during E7-get a pass with an appointment

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Grading Policies (grading scale)

• See handout (attached to website)
• Redos
• only allowed on Summative Assessments
• only one redo per assignment
• students get one week to turn in a redo after
  they have received the original back graded
• students can receive a 100 for the summative
  grade of the work but will lose all of the PP
  points and it will be labeled as such in the
  comments section

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Parent Volunteers

• Please consider signing up to help chaperone
  field trips this year
• In science
• 8th grade has 2 field trips-one in October to
  NOAA and one in November to DMNS
• 7th grade has one field trip in April to the zoo
• These require parent volunteers to have done a
  background check and a signed volunteer form