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Welcome to SEPUP Training!. Stephanie Finn Sfinn.sepup@gmail.com 716-512-4848 Buffalo Public Schools. Goals for Today. IAES Studying Soils Scientifically Student Book Kits Teachers Guide Literacy Strategies Journaling Assessment Pacing Diverse learners/extensions
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Welcome to SEPUP Training! Stephanie Finn Sfinn.sepup@gmail.com 716-512-4848 Buffalo Public Schools
Goals for Today • IAES Studying Soils Scientifically • Student Book • Kits • Teachers Guide • Literacy Strategies • Journaling • Assessment • Pacing • Diverse learners/extensions • Group interaction/classroom management • Questions/concerns
Agenda • 8:30 Welcome • 8:45 – 10:00 Studying Soils Scientifically • 10:00 – 10:10 Break • 10:15 – 11:30 Studying Soils Scientifically • 11:00 – 12:00 Lunch • 12:30 – 2:00 Studying Soils Scientifically • 2:00 – 2:10 Break • 2:15 – 3:30 Wrap of Studying Soils
SEPUP Science Education for Public Understanding Program
Activity #1 – Into the Field Activity Type: Investigation Content and Skill Area: Getting to know materials and equipment, introduction to the metric system.
Activity #1 – Into the Field • Add Activity to your table of contents (The number, the title, and page in your journal you will put activity on. I suggest page 7) • Go to page 7 in your journal. Place the number and title of the activity on the top. • Copy the Challenge question. • Materials • Procedure
Read the paragraph on page A-4 • Answer the following question in your journal: • What do scientists spend time doing?
Activity #2 – The Garden Problem Activity Type: Talking it over Content and Skill Area: Variables affecting plant growth, evidence/opinion
Gots and Needs Questions and Concerns idesktop.tv
Activity #3 – Observing Soil • Activity type: Laboratory • Content and skill area: Vocabulary use in observations • This is the first lab your students will do!
Activity #3 Observing Soil • Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-12 • Answer the following question in your journal: • What did the class do next to the garden? • What did Mrs. Clayson suggest the class do next?
Answer the first question on p. A-14 in your journal by yourself! We will go over them in 5 minutes.
Reading Graduated Cylinders What is a graduated cylinder?
Measuring Length Using a ruler
Activity #4 – Soil Columns p. A-15 • Activity Type: Laboratory • Content and Skill Area: Soil composition, color, texture, following a procedure, observations, recording and analyzing results, sketching
Activity #4 – Soil Columns p. A-15 • Add Activity to your table of contents • Go to the next blank page in your journal after activity three. Place the number and title of the activity on the top of this page. • Copy the Challenge question. • Materials • Procedure
Read the paragraph and the picture caption on page A-15 • Answer the following questions in your journal: • What is soil composition? • How can we learn about soil composition?