Artifacts

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 9^th 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.