Respectful Teaching Strategiesfor Science

Objective- Sciences teachers will:• Review examples of instructional strategies with the goal of designing and implementing at least

one strategy into a 3rd nine weeks lesson.

Strategy 1- Prompts, starters and formative assessment

Strategy 2- Projects • Rafts• Menus• Think-tac-toe

Strategy 3- Tiered assignments and pre-assessments

Examples and collaboration• Time to View Work sample• Work in Learning Communities• Time for reflection and questions• Exit card

• Find your seat• Turn in page 42• Collect the two papers on the front desk,

graph paper, a ruler and a pencilStarterPick ONE column below and complete the prompt.

Describe the difference between absolute and relative time.

Give an example that shows the difference between relative and absolute time.

Using pictures, show the difference between relative and absolute time.

Read through the periods of the Paleozoic Era and respond to one of the following with at least four complete sentences.A. In what ways is

the Paleozoic Era different from our current era.

B. B. In what ways is the Paleozoic Era the same as the current era?

Imagine that you could travel back in time.A. What would you

like most about living in the Paleozoic Era.

B. What would you like least about living in the Paleozoic Era?

Write a short narrative to describe to one of your friends the major features of the Paleozoic Era.

You need a calculator and your clicker.

• You need a white board and marker• Starter- complete ONE of the problems below on

paper...choose the one that is challenging, but one you can accurately complete- show all work

• The half life of element Z is 17250 years. If a rock is found with 1/16th of the original Element Z remaining, how old is the rock? Show all work and units.

• A sediment erodes at a rate of 19.15 cm every 2000 years. If the area has been eroding for 200 years, how much sediment has eroded? Show all work and units.

• Wachatcha falls erodes at a rate of 13 cm per year. Knowing that there is 2.54 cm in 1 inch, how long will it take to accumulate 525 inches? Show all work and units.

• Turn in History of Geology assignment• Collect a ruler, calculator, and a pencil• Take out pages 70-72Starter- Wegner’s supported his theory of continental drift with evidence, pick one column below and describe the evidence for his theory.Describe the fossil evidence associated with continental drift.

Describe the rock evidence associated with continental drift.

Describe the climate evidence associated with continental drift.

-You have been divided into groups based on your learning style (on your index cards from earlier this year)

-Read the column for your group and begin.

- You will have 12 minutes to work on your task and 3 minutes to practice presenting.

Kinesthetic/Tactile 1 Auditory Kinesthetic/Tactile 2 Visual

Come up with a dance or skit to explain the process, location and molecules involved in DNA replication. All group members must participate in developing the dance or skit and in the presentation.

Write a song or poem that describes the process, location and molecules involved in transcription. All group members must participate in writing the song or poem and in the presentation.

Come up with a dance or skit to explain the process, location and molecules involved in translation. All group members must participate in developing the dance or skit and in the presentation.

Create a flow chart or sign to illustrate the two types of mutations and their effects on amino acid sequence. All group members must participate in making the sign and the presentation.

Immune System Warm Up or Homework

Creative Analytical Practical

Write a short story, comic strip or journal entry about how the body responds to invasion from bacteria or viruses. Illustrate your story.

Create a flow chart that lists the type of cells involved in immune response and how they are interconnected.

Explain to a peer who was absent from class how the immune system interacts with and is related to the other body systems.

Assume a Role! Consider an Audience! Write in a Format! Examine a Topic!

Role Audience Format Topic

The part the student will play.

Who is listening?

How the information will be presented.

The content that the presentation will cover.

RAFT

Assume a Role! Consider an Audience! Write in a Format! Examine a Topic!

Anatomy

In what ways do we use the natural resource?

Where is the natural resource located?(in the US and the world)

How is the natural resource extracted or collected?

What are the environmental and social concerns of extraction/collection and use of natural resource?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this the resourse?

What are the plans for future use of the natural resource?(address if this natural resource is renewable or non-renewable.)

Natural Resources RAFT

You have been assigned a natural resource to research. You will be responsible to research different aspects of the assigned natural resource and complete the following worksheet with the information you learn. Each of the topics must be completely addressed for full credit and in your own words.

RAFT Rubric: Criteria

Topics Research 1. pointNot all topics researched and incompletely

2-3 pointsAll topics researched, but incompletely

4-5 pointsAll topics thoroughly researched

Topics Presentation 0-1 pointsNot all topics addressed

2-3 pointsAll topics addressed, but inaccurately or incompletely

4-5 pointsAll topics thoroughly and correctly addressed

Creativity 0-1 pointsLittle to no creativity/cleverness

2-3 pointsSome instances of creativity or cleverness

4-5 pointsVery creative. Multiple instances of creativity/cleverness

Notes 0-1 pointsEither few or no notes taken

2-3 pointsIncomplete notes of presentations made

4-5 pointsThorough notes of presentations made

RAFT – For this assignment, you will be given a task based on your learning preference. All tasks are to be completed for the assigned role. You may choose the format and audience. Then you and your assigned groupmates will make a 2-3 minute presentation. You will be graded on addressing each of the research topics as well as creativity.

Oral – News Report, Interview, Poem, Persuasive Argument Visual –Cartoon, Story Book, Article, Diary Entry, Recipe

Kinesthetic – Game Show, Skit, Dance, Board game Auditory – Jingle, Rap, Cheer, Mnemonic, Radio Show

Menu• Can be used as an anchor activity, learning

contract, or review activity, as well as a culminating activity.

Course Description

Appetizer Student can choose from a variety of options (learning styles, modalities).

Main Course Students must complete all portions. Designed to assess mastery of course objectives.

Side Dish Students choose from a variety of options (learning styles, modalities)

Dessert Often optional extension

Plate Tectonics Menu Project DIRECTIONS: You will have class time and homework time

over the next four days to complete your menu on plate tectonics. The menu is designed to get you thinking about the main idea in this unit. You must complete all three sections of the menu.

All work must be your original ideas.

Appetizer- EVERYONE DOES THIS SECTIONMake a WORDLE for Wegner’s evidence of continental

drift. You must include evidence and example on your Wordle. You must have at least 5 words and 5 short phrases.

Main Course- You must choose ONE of these. • Use a flow chart or diagram to compare and contrast the 5 main types of plate

boundaries (continental-continental, continental- oceanic, oceanic-oceanic, transform and divergent) You must include, main characteristics, how they form and a specific location on earth where each boundary is found.

• Make a colored drawing of the 5 main types of plate boundaries (continental-continental, continental- oceanic, oceanic-oceanic, transform and divergent) You must include, all main characteristics in the drawing. The drawing must show how they form and a specific location on earth where each boundary is found must be listed below the drawing.

• You have just booked a trip to visit the 5 main types of plate boundaries (continental-continental, continental- oceanic, oceanic-oceanic, transform and divergent) Make a post card to a friend for each of the five locations. On your postcard you must describe the main characteristics of the plate boundary, how they form and a specific location on earth where each boundary is found. You may use clip art or graphics as the picture for your postcard.

DESSERT- Choose one of the following.Write a poem or song that describes the three main

types of earthquake waves- You must have five verses.

Write a poem or song that describes about Hot

Spots- You must have 5 verses. Write a poem or song about how the amount of

dissolved gas and silica content effects the explosiveness of a volcano. You must have 5 verses

Example

BIOME MENU PROJECT

• Appetizer- EVERYONE DOES THIS ENTIRE SECTION

• Include a geographic map of all of the biomes. The map should be colored and labeled. The equator should be clearly labeled.

• Explain the relationship between altitude/latitude and the climate of four biomes of your choice.

• Main Course- You should choose ONE of these • Create a drawing or comic strip with captions that illustrates for your assigned

biome – o a minimum of 5 biotic and 5 abiotic factors – o for each biotic factor (plant or animal) include ONE adaptation that allows it

to survive in that biome – o Two examples of symbiosis (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism)

• Create a flow chart with connecting phrases for your assigned biome that illustrates your understanding of the relationships between – o A minimum of 5 biotic and 5 abiotic factors – o Adaptations for each of the biotic factors (plant and animal) that allows it to

survive it that biome – o Two examples of symbiosis (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism)

• Write a journal entry/diary entry from the perspective of an animal or plant in your biome that describes “a day in the life” and includes the following – o A minimum of 5 biotic and 5 abiotic factors that the organism encounters – o Adaptations for each of the biotic factors that allows it to survive it that

biome (including your organism) – o Two examples of symbiosis (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism)that

affects the daily life of your organism and other organisms in the biome

• Side Dish- Choose TWO of the following • Find or create a food web that includes organisms from your biome and

shows at least four trophic levels including a decomposer. Label each trophic level and include arrows (pointing in the proper direction).

• Find or create a diagram for the carbon cycle. Label respiration and photosynthesis. Explain the role of photosynthesis and respiration in the carbon cycle.

• Find or create an energy pyramid that includes organisms from your biome. Label each trophic level and use the 10% rule to explain the flow of energy through the trophic levels.

• Dessert- If you’re not too full, you have the option to do DESSERT for BONUS

• Research a human impact and describe how it is affecting your biomes. Consider these points in your answer: – o What biotic factors are being affected? – o What is the effect on these factors? – o Is anything being done to counter these effects?

Forms of Energy Menu Planner• Due: All items in the main dish and the specified number of side dishes must be completed by

the due date. • You may select among the side dishes as indicated, and you may decide to do some of the

dessert items as well. Main Dish (Complete all) Draw a picture illustrating how energy changes from one form to

another. Needs to be at least four changes within the cycle. Create a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts kinetic and

potential energy Write a letter to the government describing how it is important to

conserve the energy that we have as you now know that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

DUE:

Side Dish (Select two of the four to complete) Write a creative story about a child on a rollercoaster. Include where

potential and kinetic energy are changing in the rollercoaster ride and how the child is affected by the changes.

Pretend you are a melting popsicle and discuss how your molecules are being affected by the change in kinetic energy.

Draw an illustration of how the molecules change from steam back into an ice cube.

Research online a graph that represents global warming on the polar ice caps.

DUE:

Dessert (Select one of the following) Draw a cartoon of a melting snowman and discuss his molecules

changing due to kinetic energy. Draw a cartoon of a bird watching a rollercoaster go up and down

and its reaction to the people screaming at various stages of the ride.

Draw an illustration of a piece of bread and how it has gone through six of the forms of energy.

DUE:

Think-Tac-Toe• This is a type of learning contract or anchor

activity designed to give students control over when to work, give them a choice about presentation options, and can be tiered so that challenge levels of problems, texts, or skills practiced are suitable for each student.

• They are laid out like a tic-tac-toe board and students must complete three tasks in a row, diagonally, vertically, or horizontally.

Minerals Tic-Tac-Toe- Project Guide

Develop a flow chart for the correct steps used in the identification of

minerals.

Write a poem/rap or song that explains the characteristics a

material must meet to be classified as a mineral.

The song must have a title and at least 5 verses.

On the front and back of an index card, explain how

minerals are used in your favorite activity (e.g.

football, dance, karate, etc.) Must use at least 100

words.

On the front and back of an index card, explain

how minerals are used in your favorite activity (e.g.

football, dance, karate, etc.) Must use at least

100 words

Create a Wordle for one of the

minerals listed below. The Wordle should include the name of the mineral, 7 items that you

use or see daily which contain the mineral and 4 of the minerals

properties (one property must be hardness).

Write a song or poem to describe the steps of mineral identification.

The song must have a title and at least 5 verses.

Write a song, rap, or

poem that teaches the rest of the class about at least 5 of the physical properties of minerals. The song must have a

title and at least 5 verses.

Write a narrative that explains the steps of mineral identification

to someone who has missed earth science class. Must contain

a minimum of 2 paragraphs

Using the five

characteristics required to be classified as a

mineral, make a collage showing minerals vs not

mineral.

CATEGORY A (20) B (15) C (10) D (5) F (0) Total

"Graphic" Activity

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"Write" Activity

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"Song” Activity

Activity is complete Directions were followed Information is accurate, and contains no grammatical errors. Very Neat, and legible. Professional quality Shows originality.

Activity is complete Directions were followed Information is accurate, and contains minimal grammatical errors. Neat and legible. Great Quality .

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Think Tac Toe

Create a word problem that calculates the speed of two moving objects. Must be worked out and done correctly. Answer must be realistic to the data that is given in the problem.

Find pictures of three sports that would depend on the measurement of speed. Write a 4-5 sentence paragraph for each picture on why that sport needs to understand and use speed.

Think of a way that motion is important to your life. Describe that in a creative writing paragraph (at least 5-7 sentences).

Find examples of three line graphs, cut them out, label the independent and dependent variables for each of the graphs.

Draw directions to your house from school labeling all of the major reference points getting to your home. Include written directions with your drawing (think MapQuest directions).

Find three pictures of objects in motion and describe how fast you THINK each object is travelling (at least 3-4 sentence description for each picture).

Write a list of steps for a student in 5th grade who has never completed a speed problem. Describe to them how to accurately set up and calculate a speed problem.

Draw pictures illustrating the speed, distance, and time formulas. There will be three separate drawings for each of the formulas. Each formula should be drawn with different pictures.

Write a list of ten examples of when you think it may be important to know how to calculate speed.

Motion - Think Tac-ToeDirections: Choose any of the three to complete a tic-tac-toe across, down or diagonal. Each of your choices must be done on a separate sheet of paper. Blank copy paper, colored paper, or construction paper should be used, NO NOTEBOOK paper.You must attach this sheet to your final product. Examples of pictures and graphs need to come from magazines or newspapers. You may use only ONE graph from the internet and ONE picture from the internet.PARENT SIGNATURE: __________________________________________________ DUE: ___________

Think Tac Toe Grading Rubric – Each task received points on the following:

10 Points Thoroughly completed project task. Gave details. Went above and beyond

8 PointsMostly completed project task. Gave some details.

6 PointsSomewhat completed project task. Gave little details

4 PointsCompleted parts of the project task. No details

2 PointsAt least project was started.

5 PointsVery Neat – well colored. Typed or written neatly

4 PointsNeat

3 PointsSomewhat neat

2 PointsLittle neatness, many errors or blotches on papers

1 PointLots of bumps on the bus this morning

5 PointsFollowed exact directions given for project task

4 PointsFollowed directions for project task

3 PointsMostly followed the directions for the project task

2 PointsSome parts of the directions were missed in the project task

1 PointMade up your own task for the project

Tiered Assignments

• In a differentiated classroom, a teacher uses varied levels of tasks to ensure that students explore ideas and use skills at a level that builds on their prior knowledge and prompts continued growth.

• While students work at varied degrees of difficulty on their tasks, they all explore the essential ideas and work at high levels of thought.

• Assessment-based tiering allows students to work in their “Zone of Proximal Development” or in a state of moderate change.

Definition – In your own words Definition: Textbook

Examples: Illustration:

MOTION

FeExample of vocabulary pre-assessment: Part I

Pre-assessment Part II - both parts are included onto one page

Knowledge Rating ChartDirections: Rate the following terms as follows:

1. I’ve never heard that word before2. I’ve heard the term, but I don’t know how it applies to physics3. I understand the meaning of this term and can apply it within

science. Speed __________ Distance ______________Motion __________ Acceleration ______________Velocity__________ Time ______________Force__________If you have terms that are 2’s or 3’s use your own words to write down a SHORT definition on the back of this paper.

Pre- Assessment

ANTICIPATION STATEME NT REACTION

Mass and weight are the same thing.

A force is a push or a pull

Balanced forces produce no motion

Sliding friction is when an object slides over another object

Friction occurs between two surfaces that are touching

Gravity causes things to fall toward the earth

Weight is measured in Newtons

Mass is measured in Grams

A pound of feathers weighs the same as a pound of rocks

There are four types of friction

Forces Anticipation GuideRead the statements below and decide if you agree (A) or disagree (D) with each statement. Write you answer in the column under Anticipation. After you have learned about the topic, complete the column under Reaction.Periodically go back and check to see what you have learned as you progress through the Forces unit.

Examples

• You will have the next 15 minutes to view student work products.

Collaboration

• You will have 20 minutes to collaborate with members of your learning community and discuss plans for implementation of one of these strategies in the 3rd nine weeks.– Discussion points:

• Which strategy fits your needs and style as a teacher? • Which strategy will help students reach the learning

goals you have set?• Which strategy are you most interested in trying and

why?

• What strategy do plan to implement in the 3rd nine weeks?

• Why did you choose this strategy?