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Curriculum Philosophy
My philosophy that every curriculum be supplemented, complemented, and extended. The textbook is only a resource in the Windy Ridge Science Department!
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Order of Instruction
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www.Mrs-Twedt.com
• Notes• Labs• Study guides and study games• Master Table of Contents• Homework assignments• Pertinent information and resources • Links to ProgressBook, OCPS,
Windy Ridge, Edmodo and my email
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Weekly Email?
Any changes to your email address?
Need to give me YOUR email address?
Please fill out a form (center table) and leave it in the bin for me :)
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Honors Course
• High School Credit• Final Grade for YEAR determines HS
credit. Must be above a C. • Will affect your high school G.P.A. • If after the first grading period, you have
not maintained an A or B, you will be reassigned as a Middle School Credit Physical Science Student, and no High School credits will be earned.
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FCAT
• Composition Notebook• Vocabulary• See homepage of www.mrs-twedt.com for
tips, tools, and resources• FCAT Explorer• FCAT Stations• Book Study: “Science Matters”
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Book Study
• Supports Common Core
• FCAT Review• AND just a good
book!!
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Common Core
• Language Arts embedded/Math embedded Nothing New Here!
• 4 Magazine subscriptions. Article reading for a project and for enrichment.
• See the Magazines on the center table!
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Science Grade
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Science Journal• Single most important grade determinant.
Everything hinges on this!• Contains all assignments, quizzes and tests,
labs, and accomplishments• IT IS YOUR Textbook as well as your study
guides for tests • MUST stay up to date and organized • Journal quizzes = No Notice!!!• Master TOC on www.mrs-twedt.com as well as
in the classroom.• Downloadable pages on www.mrs-twedt.com
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Classwork/Homework/ Teamwork/Participati
on• Hands-on activities throughout the year
• Labs and activities sometimes collected as homework and graded for accuracy; sometimes as classwork for completion
• Group labs/activities will sometimes include a group evaluation and a self evaluation (Teamwork/Participation grade).
• THOROUGH ANSWERS ALWAYS
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Tests and Quizzes
• Each test is worth more than a quiz
• Added to journal after they are handed back
• True understanding is what I am aiming for, not memorization. You cannot memorize your way to an A!
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Late Work, Retakes, and LunchBIG CHANGES FOR ALL 7th Graders, now 8th Graders--• NO late homework will be accepted. If you do not have
your homework done the day it is due, I will not take it, for a grade, late. You SHOULD do it regardless. *Extenuating circumstances will alter this.
• Retakes will be done ONLY if I approve. I will ask YOU to retake, not vise-versa. It is not assumed, nor implied that you can retake.
• Lunch will only be open to complete labs, etc. Most 8th grade rooms will be closed every day at lunch.
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Any Questions?