STE MS Science RT Meeting by Ms. Stevenson https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml Please record any questions, comments, or suggestions throughout the December RT Meeting. en-us 2016-12-12 15:24:55 UTC 2025-12-02 20:53:09 UTC hello@padlet.com The new IS8 unit does not integrate a balance of NGSS. It's become a literacy class. https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732616 2016-12-14 20:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732616 When will we get sample items from grade 8 MISA and more information? https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732873 2016-12-14 20:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732873 There is not a variety of assessment methods within the new IS8 unit. So far the final product has been leading primarily to a BCR. When will this be modified or changed up? https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732895 2016-12-14 20:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143732895 I feel like our strong readers and writers are now getting left behind. The extensions offered, if any are provided, are not actually extensions. (IS8, in any case) https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143733226 2016-12-14 20:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143733226 IS8 curriculum is showing very little opportunities for multiple modes of instruction and the new materials are a little confusing to navigate in the google drive. https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143733352 2016-12-14 20:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143733352 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143737091 When you begin to change the 6th grade common tasks, please do not make them the same format as the 8th grade astronomy unit. ]]> 2016-12-14 21:26:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143737091 IS7 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143740971 IS7 teachers all miss the skeletal system.  It needs to be included in order to better understand the muscular and nervous systems.  ]]> 2016-12-14 21:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143740971 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143742675 My own daughter is an 8th grade student.  Her impression of the current curriculum is that all they do is read, do chromebook interactives and then write claim and evidence pieces.  This mirrors what my 8th grade teachers are saying also.  It seems like we are literacy teachers over science teachers.  Are our students going to stay engaged in science with this kind of curriculum?  ]]> 2016-12-14 22:10:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143742675 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143742928 Many of my IS 8 and IS students are having packet frustration. It seems like it is the same methods being used to teach new concepts daily. It is taking the joy out of the learning within the 8th grade curriculum. ]]> 2016-12-14 22:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143742928 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143743033 2016-12-14 22:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143743033 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143743251 The point value of the 2nd Unit IS 8 assignments is not proportional to the unit as a whole

]]> 2016-12-14 22:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143743251 https://padlet.com/lanise_k_steven/r7p1qi6l37ml/wish/143743377 Formatting of the IS 8 documents for Unit 2: Please please please consider moving the title from the header to the body of the document so the name header fits at the top of the page. This way it will not be moved to the bottom because of lack of fitting in the top header.

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