science coffee morning by: hebatallah gaber. today’s session science structure myp sciences aims...
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Science Coffee Morning
By: Hebatallah Gaber
Today’s Session Science structure
MYP sciences aims
Science classes
Assessments
Parent tips: How to help your children in science?
Students tips: how to be successful in science?
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Science structure @ Uptown
PYP: Science
MYP grades 6-8: Sciences
MYP grades 9-10: Biology- Physics- Chemistry
DP grades 11-12: Biology- Physics- Chemistry
MYP Sciences AimsTo encourage and enable students to:
understand and appreciate science and its implications
consider science as a human endeavour with benefits and limitations
cultivate analytical, inquiring and flexible minds that pose questions, solve problems, construct explanations and judge arguments
develop skills to design and perform investigations, evaluate evidence and reach conclusions
build an awareness of the need to effectively collaborate and communicate
apply language skills and knowledge in a variety of real-life contexts
develop sensitivity towards the living and non-living environments
reflect on learning experiences and make informed choices.
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Our Changing World
What we do in the classroom:
Class activities
Modelling
Lab experiments
Lab report write ups
Research
Presentations
Tests
Written work
Games
Assessments: How will students be graded?
Four criteria:
Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding (Test/Data analysis/ Case study)
Criterion B: Inquiring and Designing (Design of an independent experiment)
Criterion C: Processing and Evaluating (Data collection and conclusion of an investigation)
Criterion D: Reflecting on the Impacts of Science (Essay/ Presentation/ Poster/ Brochure)
How will students grades look like?
Each criterion is valued out of 8 points
Total grade is then calculated out of 32
Grade boundaries… Final grade out of 7
Grade Boundary guidelines
1 1-5
2 6-9
3 10-14
4 15-18
5 19-23
6 24-27
7 28-32
Parent Tips: How to help your child in
scienceAsk your child to share with you what they are learning.
Encourage inquiry and investigation at home when the opportunity presents itself.
Check your child’s agenda for homework or assessment tasks due dates and help them keep a schedule for completing assignments.
Help your child study for major tests by calling out vocabulary words or asking random questions from their book.
If your occupation or hobbies involve science, please consider speaking with our classes.
Student tips: how to be successful in science
Use your diary to record short term and long term assignments. 2-2.5 hours of science homework assigned per week (including assessment tasks).
Keep your science notes and sheets organized in your copybook.
Reviewing daily Learning objectives.
Develop your ATL skills, they help you “Learn how to learn”.
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Claim: Factual nature of science
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