User:Vtaylor/mCurriculum

Dr. Meeks - Creekside 7th Grade Science Fall 2012


 * guided / layered / self-directed / learner-centered
 * making learning visible / self-assessment / problem-based
 * handheld / pocket / smartphone / byo... /
 * cooperation (cf collaboration)
 * SAMR Ladder - Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition
 * calculators, dictionaries, calendars, and occasional notepads, enhance their learning outside the classroom, do everyday tasks faster, like accessing the Web, capturing information or viewing content from anywhere, not only in the classroom, but voluntarily at home to enhance reports, homework, and to research deeper into subjects that they were working on in class

== Layered Curriculum framework==

layered curriculum - C, B, A, make learning visible - what and how
 * pre-test quiz
 * basic understanding
 * apply
 * review, self-assessment - Add It Up - this activity helps students to determine if their answers are correct without asking the teacher. Students can use this sheet to check their own work - list of questions with numerical answers example
 * observation notes, presentation, pictures, video, audio recording - smartphone
 * observation notes, presentation, pictures, video, audio recording - smartphone


 * various multiple choice and short answer questions on the topic of the scientific method


 * essential question project


 * WARM-UP - list of questions to start thinking about the topic. Objectives - list of goals, objectives, outcome for this topic


 * LEARN - Design Principles - describes the underlying principle for this topic. Tools and Methods - describes tools and methods used to achieve objectives


 * EXPLORE - Selected media - list of online references that support and expand on material presented here. Demonstration - Show and Tell - case studies, examples


 * APPLY - List of activities to do to reinforce and extend learning, practical application of theory, mini-projects, next steps for


 * EVALUATE - Problem-based discussion, learning community interaction

resources, reference, repositories
 * interactive sites for education

== Earth Science : Human Impact==


 * eco-paleontology


 * earth science - 7th - free


 * plate tectonics dice game


 * backyard ecology - quiz, observations


 * graphic organizer to help students learn or review the characteristics of a mineral and the ways we can identify them


 * atmosphere test


 * beaches and sand lab


 * Earth Sci activities


 * earth sci pre-test

== Life Science : Interdependence==


 * Big Idea 17: Interdependence

resources, activities
 * food chain game
 * frog monitoring - Canadian, lots of good information
 * food chain
 * food chain
 * science free
 * fact swap review - smartphone, edmodo "quiz"
 * ecology quiz - edmodo

videos, interactive
 * secondary consumer video
 * Shark week
 * hunt like a cheetah
 * food chain - interactive

free apps
 * Food Chain game, android
 * Food Chain - The Game - iPad

Middle Comp Sci 2 - Week 34 -35 - Interdependence and Ecology (T15) - April 29 - May 10

Students will:
 * (T15) differentiate and describe the roles and relationships among producers, consumers and decomposers
 * (T15) identify the role of an organism in a food web
 * (T15) trace the flow of energy in a food web
 * (T15) recognize species in a food web as primary, secondary and tertiary consumers
 * (T15) create a food web with 15 organisms


 * Benchmarks SC.7.L.17.1


 * Academic language - food web, roles, relationships, producers, consumers primary (1st), secondary (2nd), tertiary (3rd), decomposers

Students will:
 * (T15) identify the type of relationship between organisms, given a description of their interactions
 * (T15) compare and contrast the relationships among organisms such as mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, and commensalism


 * Benchmark SC.7.L.17.2


 * Academic vocabulary - mutualism, parasitism, predation, competition, commensalism