About the Course
notebook, laptop, pencils, paper, calculator, etc.
What are Class Materials?
Must be charged and ready for each class.
What is your laptop?
If you fail to make up missing work and/or assessments within the LRP grace period and before the end of a grading period, you will get this grade...
What is Zero?
This device must be turned off, placed in the basket by the door, and not used as a distraction during class time...
What is the cellphone?
This category in your gradebook counts for 25% of your overall grade for the class.
What is the Formative Assessments category?
Mondays and Wednesdays after school...
What are office hours?
A copy of the Syllabus can be found here...
What is the MCD Class Bulletin Board?
All major assignments need to be made up at the discretion of the teacher, but no later than a grace period of...
What is ONE WEEK from the final due date?
These rules must be followed to ensure a safe lab experience for all students...
What are Lab Safety Rules?
This category in your gradebook counts for 75% of your overall grade for this class...
What is the Summative Assessments Category?
The main mode of teaching/learning for this science class...
What is Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) or Project-Based Learning (PBL), or active, hands-on learning, etc.
Although limited information can be found on the syllabus, you can find detailed information about the student dress code, attendance policy, absence procedures, technology responsibilities, and others here...
What is the Student Handbook?
Can be used for pre-learning, checking for understanding, practice, and extension.
What is homework?
These items are not generally allowed in science labs/classrooms for safety reasons...
What are food and/or drinks?
Learning tasks that involve time management, organization, teamwork, participation, and conduct will be graded as part of which category?
What is the Learning Tasks category?
scientific measurement and significant figures,
physical and chemical properties of matter,
atomic structure and theory,
trends in the periodic table,
chemical bonding
What are the topics or units of study for the first term/semester?
Major homework assignments such as essays, lab reports, projects, etc., are considered a type of assessment that gauges your cumulative knowledge...
What is summative assessment?
The number of days that you have to make up assessments or assignments after an approved absence...
What is the number of days equal to the approved absence?
If your semester ends with a grade between 83% and 86%, you will end up with this letter grade...
What is an B?
Hopefully, in this science class, you will: Question, analyze, and evaluate the validity of claims independently and collaboratively.
This is an example of...
What is a Long-term Transfer Goal, or an Educational Goal, or a Learning Goal?
Students who do not complete assigned homework tasks regularly and in a timely fashion and who fail to attend assigned study sessions may be referred to...
What is the Dean of Students and the Learning Resources Director?
All submitted work for grading must be completed individually (unless otherwise told) and in your own words.
What is the MCDS Honor Code?
This type of assessment may or may not be graded, but will appear in the gradebook to indicate progress. It can be in many forms: progress checks, homework, learning tasks, reflections, etc.
What is formative assessment?