Other Stuff I've Created

I know we're supposed to stick to the FOSS plan, but I've done a couple of extra things.  Some because I'm personally committed to one educational cause or another, some because of pressure for "bulletin-board-worthy" material, some for other reasons.  Check it out, do what you like with it.

levers invest A lab report blank.doc

pulleys lab report blank.doc

For many years, I've taught my students how to write up a very simple lab report.  I'm very committed to writing-across-the-curriculum, and I like to focus on precise and clear language in these assignments.  Plus, it makes the science fair and exit projects a hundred times easier, because the kids know how to handle the writing demands.  So here's a worksheet I created for the 6th graders' first lab report, which was a write-up of Levers Experiment A.  We did a lot of it together, and they finished up the Analysis & Conclusions at home.  Note that Sources of Error is pretty unsophisticated; we scaffold to a more-sophisticated understanding of error by 8th grade.

rubric.doc

Students received a copy of a more detailed rubric first, but these are what we actually attach to their lab reports.  I don't have an electronic copy of the complete rubric at the moment, but when I get one, I'll attach it.  By the way, I allow any student who doesn't like his/her grade to rewrite the lab report after receiving feedback. 

notebook rubric.doc

Here's the rubric I made for checking notebooks.  I simply tape it into the notebook on the next available page.

Class 2 and 3 experiment.doc

I did not feel that my students were ready for some of the questions on I-Check 2, so I designed an experiment to help them see the relationship between the location of the load and the fulcrum in these classes of levers, and also to practice graphing one more time.

Class-2 and 3 levers project rubric.doc

Here's my rubric for the project above.  Notice that each category is weighted (for example, x2); you can change the weights depending on what is important to you.

07 what does the graph tell us 5.doc

More Practice With Graphs: (Paul) My students continue to have a hard time with both reading and interpreting the line graphs, especially with summarizing what a graph depicts. I found Kelly’s earlier graph worksheets useful, so I mimicked her style, but made two graphs that are specific to class-1 levers.

07 pulleys practice rev 2.doc

More Pulleys Practice (Paul): My students are having a hard time with counting the number of “ropes” in pulley systems, and calculating the force/distance “tradeoff,” a vocabulary term I am introducing as it often comes up in units on simple machines. Attached are two (similar) practice sheets (homework?) combined in one document. Repetition is useful with my student population. I swiped the diagrams off the Internet and whited-out some of the extraneous markings on them before photocopying.

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