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School Year 2019-20
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Prof. Fee: $0
Homework: yes
Hours/Week: 1
Max/Min Students: 12/6
Grade Range: 4-7
Course Description: Real Science for Kids Geology covers basic geology concepts, minerals, soils, Earth's layers, the atmosphere, biosphere, magnetosphere and Earth as system, giving kids a solid foundation. Each student will finish the class with a rock/mineral kit that they will keep from our materials fee.
Course Expectations: Students will be reading at home, participating in hands on experiments, writing lab reports and/or worksheets, and completing weekly tests, a midterm and final.
Teacher Provides: All materials for experiments
Students Provide: Focus on Middle School Geology by Rececca Keller Student Text by Gravitas Publications. Please make sure to get the middle school version not the elementary. They look exactly the same on the cover. Amazon and Rainbow Resource have it cheaper than Gravitas. There are several used copies on Amazon. You do not need a teacher's manual or lab book unless you wish to have one. We will be creating our own lab book so you won't need manual for that, and the teacher book does not have the test key either. I will be purchasing the test book and a classroom license for the students as part of your materials fee. Please call me if you have questions about the text.
Prerequisites: None
Workload: Students need to be reading and writing well to participate in this class. Each student will need to read a short chapter from the student book most weeks. We may have a page of homework in the lab books. We will have weekly quizzes, a midterm test, and a final test. I will grade the class. 25% of the grade will be participation. Weekly quizzes will be 50% and Finals will be 25%. We will review for the midterm and final tests quite a bit. The grades are simply an incentive to complete the work.
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Details:Class meets on Monday from 11:00 PM to 11:55 PM