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Kentucky Association of School Councils

Kentucky Association of School Councils. Creative Science Teaching to Improve Test Scores Jeffrey.Wright1@Jefferson.kyschools.us Louisville Male High School. Molecule Man Unplugged. c: 2001.mid Ladies and Gentlemen : From that vast nebula of knowledge at the center of the universe

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Kentucky Association of School Councils

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  1. Kentucky Association of School Councils • Creative Science Teaching to Improve Test Scores • Jeffrey.Wright1@Jefferson.kyschools.us • Louisville Male High School

  2. Molecule Man Unplugged • c:\2001.mid • Ladies and Gentlemen: • From that vast nebula of knowledge at the center of the universe • Originating from the Power of the Big Bang; whose mass and energy are infinite at the speed of light

  3. Molecule Man

  4. The Chemical Elements Song

  5. The Chemical Elements Song • There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rheniumAnd nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadiumAnd lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radiumAnd gold, protactinium and indium and gallium (inhale) And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. • ``There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidiumAnd boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridiumAnd strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. • ``There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbiumAnd phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbiumAnd manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesiumAnd lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (inhale) And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. • ``There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkeliumAnd also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobeliumAnd argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodiumAnd chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, Tungsten, tin and sodium.

  6. Tips to Improve Science Test Scores Fun activities such as Molecule Man, Mole Day costumes, Halloween Explosions Students daily work should be aligned with the test (Bulldog Science Binder) Know Your Test like a golfer or long distance runner knows the course and practices it.

  7. What is it? • The ACT Science Reasoning test measures your ability to read and understand scientific information. • The test does NOT measure your ability to recall scientific facts.

  8. Before the Science Test… • English 75 Questions 45 minutes • Grammar, Writing Skills • Math 60 Questions 60 minutes • Content focus on Trigonometry, Logarithms, Matrices • Reading 40 questions 35 minutes • 4 passages to read, 40 questions on comprehension • Science 40 questions 35 minutes • 7 passages, 40 questions about scientific process, not content focused

  9. THE SCIENCE TEST 35 Minutes 40 Questions

  10. The Format: 7 Passages • Data Representation Charts and Graphs(38%) • Research Summaries Experiments(45%) • Fighting Scientists Conflicting Viewpoints (17%)

  11. Charts and Graphs • 5 questions in each passage • 4 minutes to complete it • For almost every assignment and lab, I request that students interpret graphs and Charts. • i.e. TI 84 Distance Time Match

  12. Experiment Passages • Experimental Analysis passages all have 6 questions • 5 minutes to do it. • Every lab students must determine the variable and control, make a hypothesis and analyze data to form a conclusion

  13. Fighting Scientist • Students must read and summarize 1 article per week • DIGG.com i.e. Particles going faster than the speed of light.

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