Good
afternoon, Dynamic Team!
Upcoming
Events: Feb. 7th – Adult Trivia
Night (see below)
Important Information: Hixson's Adult Trivia Night is coming up in February. Click here for a link to all the details. We are asking parents to contribute items for two baskets to be auctioned off per team. Dynamic’s theme is “A Little Bit of Italy”. Please send in items related to Italy. Some examples would be pasta, pasta sauce, pizza pans, pizza cutters, salami, bread, music, olives, olive oil, or cookbooks. Be as creative as you like.
Can't
fill a table of 8? Click here to register and we'll try to get you connected with others
to fill a table.
FYI: Many students are coming
to school without fully charging their laptops the night before. Help with this
would be appreciated.
English –
Susan
Artkras – artkras.susan@wgmail.org
Math- Students have been learning about the 3-type of Percent problems (including solving word problems), and Percent of Increase/Decrease. Along with learning about percents, some geometry concepts (parallel/ perpendicular/skew lines) were included. Students have been taking practice tests over these concepts and will take the unit assessments in about 2 weeks.
Wilma
Slaughter – slaughter.wilma@wgmail.org
Science –
This week in Dynamic Science students
have been working on Levels of Organization and Cells. We have been watching a video, pausing the
video and having class discussions, taking some notes, answering their questions,
having brief class presentations/examples. Today as were reviewed Levels of
Organization we drew a graphic organizer to help them see the pattern in the
relationships between the levels. We also introduced the 6 characteristics of
all organisms!
On Thursday this
week the students began taking an online formative Quia quiz, www.quia.com/web, covering the levels of organization
and cell function concepts. As a formative quiz they will take it about every 5
class periods. As a formative quiz it does not affect their semester grade. You
should be seeing their scores improve as we go through the unit. Since the quiz
covers all the major concepts of the unit some of their initial scores will be
low. As they develop their understanding and make connections among the
concepts their scores will improve. The formative quizzes help them see their
progress and areas of which they need to focus and help me as well to see what
concepts need more work. The students may take
the quiz as many times as the like!
The learning goals, proficiency scale, and targets are listed below.
Goal 1:
Student will understand that living organisms are systems of
interacting subsystems composed, on the most basic level, of cells.
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Student demonstrates innovation, in depth inference(s), or
advanced application(s) with the learning goal. In addition to level 3 the
student will be able to:
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Student will use both
and
to show that an organism is living.
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Student will use either
or
to show that an organism is living.
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Student will recognize
some components of
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Goal 2: Student will
develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways
parts of cells contribute to the function.
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Student demonstrates innovation, in depth inference(s), or
advanced application(s) with the learning goal. In addition to level 3 the
student will be able to:
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Student will develop and
use a model to
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Student will
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Student will
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Targets
1.
I am able to describe how cells are the smallest unit of
living organisms.
2.
I am able to describe each of the jobs of these organelles:
cell membrane, cell wall, chloroplasts, chromosomes, cytoplasm, mitochondria,
& nucleus.
3.
I am able to compare and contrast photosynthesis and
cellular respiration.
4.
I am able to describe the levels of organization within
complex organisms.
5.
I am able to compare and contrast plant cells and animal
cells.
This semester you will see more assignments scores posted on the
portal. “Summative assessment” scores are the only grades with are used to
calculate the semester grade.
If you have any
questions or comments please let me know.
Dynamic Systems
Science – Coach Daniels
314-918-4603
Social
Studies –
It’s
project week here in the social studies room!
Students were given a choice menu on Tuesday. They should have discussed their choice with
you at some point this week and asked you to sign off on their paper. They will have every day this week and Monday
and Tuesday of next week in class to complete their projects. You should also see some of the work coming
home. If you don’t see any Greek
mythology related materials, you may want to ask them for an update. The project is due on January 28th.
After school help is available in my room every Thursday until 4:00
Dynamic
Social Studies Course Website:
Lisa
Pettid – pettid.lisa@wgmail.org
314-918-4602
Please visit the
following links for more information:
Hixson home page -http://hixson.webster.k12.mo.us/pages/Hixson
Dr. Smith's blog - http://hixsonprincipal.wordpress.com/
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