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Classroom Expectations 1) Respect self, others, animals, and materials. 2) Listen to instructions the first time they are given. 3) Raise your hand and wait to be called on before speaking. 4) No swearing or put downs. 5) No gum! Consequences (If You Choose Not to Meet Expectations) Level 1: Warning Level 2: Seat Change or After-Class Discussion Level 3: 101 Slip and Parent Contact Severe Disruption or Unsafe Activity: Immediate Removal from Class Rewards
CLASS PROCEDURES Restroom: The best time to use the restroom is during the passing periods between classes. No one will be allowed to use the restroom during the first 10 minutes of class or the last 10 minutes of class. To use the bathroom during class, ask permission (without interrupting instruction) and take the hall pass. Starting Class: Come in to the classroom quietly, sit in your assigned seat, and write class goals and Daily Log activity in your Science Journal. Ending Class: Clean up all materials, wait until 2-minute warning to pack up personal belongings. Groups will be dismissed individually when their work area is clean and ready for the next group of students. ABSENCES If you have an excused absence, it is your responsibility to find out what happened while you were absent. For every day that you are absent, you have one extra day to turn in an assignment. Lab activities can be made up on Tuesdays at “Cocoa Club” in Miss Rice’s room (A5). You have one week to make up a lab you missed due to an excused absence; after one week, the lab materials are put away. Also, science labs and assignments are sequential and build on each other so it is important to make them up as soon as possible. EXTRA HELP We are available most days before and after school for science help. Please feel free to come by any of our classrooms (or ask ahead of time if you want to make sure we are around). Ms. Dobkowski is in Portable B, Ms. Rice is in room A5, and Ms. Johnson is in Portable 2. GRADING This class is largely laboratory based, and students will be participating in many hands-on, inquiry-based investigations. Graded assignments will include lab write-ups, in-class assignments, homework assignments, science notebooks (including “Daily Log” activities), and assessments (tests). Grades will be assigned based on total points earned. LATE WORK Late work is only accepted with a late assignment pass. Each student will receive three late assignment passes for the year; these passes enable you to turn in a completed assignment one day after the original due date. Passes are non-transferable! Major projects will be subject to a 10% loss of points for each day they are late. EXTRA CREDIT You may earn up to 50 points of extra credit each trimester – but only if all of your regular assignments have been completed. You can earn extra credit in two ways:
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