When I looked at the NCSCOS for Seventh Grade Science, I thought there would be more on it. I thought that the Competency Goals were too wordy for me, personally I like for people to just get to the point, instead of making it sound so confusing. In the seventh grade students are supposed to understand the following: Rules of Scientific inquiry and lab safety, advantages of technology, Earths atmosphere, understanding of the human body and how it works together, heredity and genetics, and build an understanding objects and their force and motion.
The coolest thing that I found on DPI’s website was the NCSCOS Science Resource Pagethis page was just designed for middle school science teachers, It has worksheets, lab ideas, gave you websites for worksheets a simpler way to put it is North Carolina’s textbook on-line for teachers. I like how these documents were very much to the point on what these students should know and ways to teach it.
heatherc614 said,
May 13, 2008 @ 10:44 pm
Amanda,
I also looked at Science ,but for grade 8. I also liked the Science Resource page. It had lots of good info and activities!!!
Heather Connolly
Rueben Helton said,
May 14, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
I do believe they are too wordy for the compentency goals. I lookes at the standards at the top before I actually did the gols. This helped me to decipher it a little better.
trathenwr said,
May 15, 2008 @ 12:04 am
Amanda,
I agree with you about the goals and standards. It will be up to you to make science come alive for your students. Consult with the other science teachers in the class and share ideas. I hope you can work on collecting material you can use to teach science.
Woody Trathen
Erin Mcintosh said,
May 17, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
I agree that sometimes the NCSOS can be too wordy. It is very cool that they have a resource page for middle school science. You can use lots of things on there and what you can’t use you can share with others. Everyone appreciates new resources.
Erin McIntosh
Rachel Eisenhower said,
May 18, 2008 @ 2:31 am
Thanks for the new page you discovered. It could be helpful. I looked at the Science standards as well. I preferred the math over the science though.
Rachel Eisenhower