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Students in Science 7 are engaged in our first lab: The Scientific Method. In this lab they are working in small groups to explore, draw, read, watch, write, organize and evaluate what happens when we "do" science.
Seventh Grade students at New Lothrop Jr. / Sr. High School began their year by spending some time on Friday, August 25th thinking about Genius Hour projects they could become involved in this school year. The students identified robotics, 3D printing, coding and general research in a topic of their choice as their highest priority in the comments section of the first post in the class blog.
Stay tuned for more information as we work on STEM Enrichment this year!
I hope you had a good break. I am interested in hearing what you did over the summer! On the first day of school Mr. Delemeester and the students will answer warm-up questions and then use the warmup answers to share their names and an interesting fact about themselves. After we introduce ourselves we will navigate to MrDelemeester.com and look at some of the topics we will be studying in Science Class this year and review class procedures and teacher expectations.
We will also discuss how Mr. Berthiaume (the Superintendent of New Lothrop Area Public Schools) and Ms. Kuchar, (our new High School Principal) have agreed to allow some time during class to try innovative Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) enrichment activities.
Our goal for the first two days of class will be to become familiar with each other, gain an overview of science class, become introduced to the classroom rules and teacher expectations, and to think about something special and challenging that we can do this year.
We will watch a video published by Gallit Zvi, an elementary school teacher and Vice Principal in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and review a list of idea starters provided by a teacher named Denise Krebs who currently teaches English to 5th Grade Students in Bahrain (don't know where that is? Google It!).
I would like students to consider things we could do with our special time...
Write a Novel
Share Your Knowledge
Design a Video Game
Build a Killer Robot
Direct a Blockbuster Movie
Compose a Symphony
Change the World
Some questions we should ask about ourselves and the world around us are...
What new idea do you want to develop?
What have you been wanting to try?
What skill can you master?
What tool can you learn that will help you work better?
What tool could help you create something beautiful?
What tool could help you communicate better?
How can we make it better?
How can we make each other better?
How do we know this to be so?
Is this what is needed most?
What is it we hope to accomplish and what’s stopping us?
What are we most proud of?
What is possible?
When can we start?
How will we prevent failure?
How can we make this happen?
Who can make this happen?
What do we regret most?
How can we make the best use of…?
What if we…?
Finally I want students to investigate the STEM Enrichment section at MrDelemeester.com and look at the opportunities that we would like to offer students this year. Spend 10 to 15 minutes investigating any of the links on my website that you find interesting and discuss them with Mr. Delemeester and your classmates.
The assignments for the first two days of school are to review the syllabus and expectations documents handed out in class with their parents and return them signed, and to think of something special to do this year and add a comment about it to this blog post.
