Humboldt Jr. & Sr. High School

7^th Grade Science

Class Syllabus

2020-2021

32 #

John Ragan

Structure of Class:

The class will be designed around the Glencoe Integrated Science textbook to include daily assignments and weekly assessments to check understand and to build to a review and unit exam.

Class Policies:

The class will maintain a respectful learning environment for all involved. Disrespect towards other students, faculty, and staff will have zero tolerance. Homework that is turned in late will be deducted 30%, without and excused absence. Students will have 3 days after a test or quiz is given to it makeup or received incomplete.

Text(s):

Integrated Science Tennessee Glencoe (textbook and workbook)

ISBN:978-0-02-137759-6

1^st Quarter Focus Standards:

7.PS1: Matter and Its Interactions

1) Develop and use models to illustrate the structure of atoms, including the subatomic particles with

their relative positions and charge.

2) Compare and contrast elemental molecules and compound molecules.

3) Classify matter as pure substances or mixtures based on composition.

4) Analyze and interpret chemical reactions to determine if the total number of atoms in the reactants

and products support the Law of Conservation of Mass.

5) Use the periodic table as a model to analyze and interpret evidence relating to physical and

chemical properties to identify a sample of matter.

6) Create and interpret models of substances whose atoms represent the states of matter with respect

to temperature and pressure.

ACT:

7.LS1.9 Construct a scientific explanation based on compiled evidence for the processes of photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and anaerobic respiration in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.

7.LS1.2 Conduct and investigation to demonstrate how the cell membrane maintains homeostasis through the process of passive transport

7.PS1.6 Create and interpret models of substances whose atoms represent the states of matter with respect to temperature and pressure.

Student Responsibilities:

Students are responsible for being on time to class and to bring their textbook, workbook, pencil, and paper.

Classroom Expectations:

Students are expected to be on time to class, prepared and maintain a calm quiet learning environment.

Classroom Rules:

Tell the truth.
Do what you say you will do.
Do what is morally right regardless.

Classroom Procedures:

The class will complete 1 to 4 lessons in each week, reading 5-8 pages a lesson answering 6-8 question to be submitted for homework, followed by a weekly Quiz/assessment. Quizzes will finish the week on Friday. Exams will follow the completion of a unit. Projects/labs will be conducted in class when feasible to schedule.

Classroom Consequences/Rewards:

Consequences will be varied from exercise to isolation.

Rewards will be varied from free time to homework passes.

Attendance:

Attendance will be taken every class period directly after the tardy bell and reported to the office.

Tardy will addressed per the student handbook 3 tardies equal one absence.

Students who are absent with an excuse will have 3 day to complete makeup work.

Grades:

Daily/quizzes: 40% Weekly Quiz/assessment

Homework: 10% Daily lesson and chapter review

Projects: 20% Projects of labs 1-2 every 9 week

Exams: 30% Exams Unit exams and Case assessments 1-2 every 9 week

Grading Scale:

A 100-93

B 92-85

C 84-75

D 74-70

F 69-0

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Student Signature Date

8^th Grade Science

Class Syllabus

2020-2021

32 #

John Ragan

JOHN.RAGAN@hcsvikings.org

Structure of Class:

The class will be designed around the Glencoe Integrated Science textbook to include daily assignments and weekly assessments to check understand and to build to a review and unit exam.

Class Policies:

Text(s):

Integrated Science Tennessee Glencoe (textbook and workbook)

ISBN:970-0-02-137805-0

1^st Quarter Focus Standards:

8.PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

1) Design and conduct investigations depicting the relationship between magnetism and electricity in

electromagnets, generators, and electrical motors, emphasizing the factors that increase or diminish

the electric current and the magnetic field strength.

2) Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on

each other even though the objects are not in contact.

3) Create a demonstration of an object in motion and describe the position, force, and direction of the

object.

4) Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion

depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

5) Evaluate and interpret that for every force exerted on an object there is an equal force exerted in

the opposite direction.

ACT

8.ESS2.1 Evaluate data collected from seismographs to create a model of Earth’s structure.

8.PS2.4 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.

8.PS2.2 Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not touching.