Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Year is Zooming By! Are You Paddling to Stay Afloat?

Yes, we are already deep into the second six weeks, and I have neglected the new blog since this summer...and the old blogs....and, most everything else besides schoolwork!  In my science classroom, we have workstations where students are held accountable for individual learning, as well as team learning.  As a scientist who became a teacher, hands-on work is extremely important to me; however, I realize we have expectations and demands concerning the STAAR test.  I am focusing my efforts this year to have students make the all-important connections from investigation to STAAR question.  I will be sharing some of our stations from time to time in hopes of saving someone else a little time!

Here you see the "Prove It Station".

Complete with Instruction Sheet:






Set Up the investigation in the question and test.  You will prove or disprove each answer choice!




Here is a sample journal:


She did finish on another page, but I didn't get the picture loaded!!  :(

Check the Downloads page for the Prove It Instruction Page.