Ms.
Porter's Science Web Page
Grade 8 Student Links
Grade 8 Team Page
Welcome Grade 8 Students & Parents!
| Contact for Ms. Porter marjorie.porter@somers.k12.ct.us Please read my grading policy and classroom expectations. Welcome to Grade 8 Science at Mabelle B. Avery Middle School! The ultimate goal of science teachers in Somers, CT is to develop scientifically literate citizens. Scientific literacy requires the ability to apply critical thinking skills when studying science-related issues. Therefore, the implementation of a hands-on science curriculum that involves in-depth exploration is essential to helping young people to understand the way in which scientific knowledge is created, validated, and communicated. A scientifically literate person is able to transfer knowledge through practical applications in the real world. Scientific literacy empowers a person to pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply logical conclusions from such arguments. Therefore, language arts and mathematics learning expectations are included in the framework as integral components of science learning. A foundation in scientific literacy prepares students to be lifelong learners who have the skills necessary to access, understand, evaluate and apply information in various contexts. All students at MBA will have access to a rich and challenging science curriculum that will promote scientific literacy, while inspiring and supporting advanced study and science-related careers. |
Connecticut
DEP-Funded
Long Island Sound SEINE Project
Scientists
& Educators Investigating Nearshore Ecosystems
International Polar Year
Arctic
Science Workshop
Classroom materials and resources for teachers,
aligned to the Connecticut grade nine standards
The Alaskan Research
Challenge (ARC)
Check These Out!!!
ARC
2008 Enhanced Podcasts
Scientists and students discuss their work
Memories of ARC
2008
Follow
us on a weeklong science research trip, February, 2008. Destination?
Fairbanks, Alaska. Nine SHS students will work closely with
their mentor scientist,
Dr.
Martin Jeffries, from the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska
(UAF).
The 2008 team will focus on the International
Polar Year and will have opportunities to collect
heat
flux data from frozen ponds and to study climate change with
world-renowned polar researchers
Links
ARC 2008 Participants
|
Stopping at the Alaskan Pipeline Meeting with Dr. Uma Bhatt
Out at Poker Flat Research Range Trying on our Cold Weather Gear |
updated: October 3, 2011