Chosen Student and Teacher Artifacts
Student Artifact:
Unit 1 (Scientific
Method and Systems) Quiz: Matter and Energy
In regards to exams and quizzes for my class, we are
required to test our students on four county benchmark exams for an entire
school year (these are organized quarterly, so in my 8 Unit Matter & Energy
course, Units 1 and 2 will be on the first benchmark exam, Units 3 and 4 will
be on the second benchmark exam, and so forth). For my own personal gain in
assessing students in a less sporadic time frame, I also require my students to
take a unit quiz for every single unit (8 for the entire school year). This
artifact was the Unit 1 Quiz taken by a student of mine that I created. The two
main topics of the unit were the Scientific Method (including classifying
independent variable, dependent variables, constants, and graphing skills) and
Systems (including simple machines, Earth systems, and Human Body Systems). In
looking at the results of the quiz, I recognize that out of all of the topics
most students struggled with being able to identify the independent variable,
dependent variable, and constants when given an experimental synopsis/scenario.
When I have students complete their Scientific Method templates to insert in
their collective Interactive Lab Notebooks, I will now add a section where they
must state the independent variable, dependent variable, and constant of each
experiment in order to combat and rectify this.
Teacher Artifact:
Matter and Energy
Syllabus
A course syllabus is an extremely valuable
teacher artifact in that it provides the groundwork for the classroom
management plan and procedures (4b). This is my personal course syllabus I
created for my 9th grade Science (Matter and Energy Course). Contact
information, grading scales/policies, unit topics and projects, and
absent/make-up work policy and procedures are some of the many components of a
syllabus. Student and parent contact information is also a critical component
as well.
