Meeting+on+October+8,+2009

Notes from 10/8 Vertical team meeting: Norms- Expectations: -All members share out at grade level meetings from notes about Team Meeting -All students should have Science Notebooks -Note takers shall rotate

Science Experiments in the Lab: -Make sure to emphasize scientific process as you guide students through experiment Evidence with sentence starters.
 * focus on claims/and evidence piece on student handout
 * on next student handout for the experiment, create T-Chart for Claims/

_ __I claim that (what happened?) because (why do you think it happened?)

- Get feedback from teachers at grade level about science experiments -Next experiment’s purpose is about how air takes up space. - As part of this vertical team’s objective:
 * this chart will help students use scientific process and build writing skills
 * help with preparation of experiments
 * decide which experiments to use__
 * help compile supplies

-Resources: through AT&T website: a compilation of math and science web sites the library. experiments we might be able to adapt to the lab- please review for next meeting
 * [] Blue Webn data base
 * Show Bill Nye the Science Guy videos @ recess and inside days
 * Denise has video on scientific process for students that can be checked out from
 * Steve Spangler web site has some excellent video clips on a variety of

-When we receive Science for English Language Learners:K-12 Classroom Strategies,__ read chapters 1 and 2 through pages 3-16. Choose a quote you would like to discuss with group. For next week: Begin choosing experiments for the Lab for the rest of the semester from resources in Lab, Steve Spangler website and from your own great ideas you have tried before that we haven’t done in theLab. Back to meeting note page