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Here is the EEAW Green Science presentation (PowerPoint file) that was given at the EEAW Conference on Saturday, November 11.

Gwen Riles wrote this chant to help students learn the parts of the microscope.

Parts of the Microscope

What is a microscope, and what does it mean?
A microscope’s a science tool that helps you see.
Micro means small and scope means look.
Look at the picture on page 3 of our book

Our simple microscope has just nine parts.
Turning on the power switch is where it all starts.
If you want to see, you’ve got to have light.
The light source has a bulb that shines so bright.
Light by itself won’t make a little thing look large.
For that we put the objective lens in charge.

What are we looking at and where does it go?
The stage is the place for the action, you know.
Why are there stage clips on the stage you ask?
They hold down the slide, which is a piece of glass.
The diaphragm has holes to let light through.
Look through the eyepiece is what you do.

Turn the focus knobs to get a clear view.
What you see may look strange and new.
Turn the coarse focus knob if the picture’s very blurry
And you want to see your slide more clearly in a hurry.
Turn the fine focus knob to see your slide best.
Now you’re a scientist, just like the rest.

(target vocabulary: power switch, light source, objective lens, stage, stage clips, diaphragm, eyepiece, coarse focus knob, fine focus knob; slide)

Here is a link with the updated inventory lists for each Seattle Public School module.

Weather Jeopardy Weather Tic-Tac-Tpe

Here is an experiment plan template for Lesson 16 (removing stains lesson).

Lesson 16 experiment plan template

Here are a few templates teachers have found useful when helping students write conclusions.

WASLized-ExperimentPlan_8-06.doc

WASL Conclusion Prompt.doc

Conclusion Template.doc

For those of you doing OEL, or those of you who just need a quick and easy lesson plan for a substitute teacher, we are working on developing a bank of lessons that can stand alone or be incorporated with one of the modules. Here are our first two offerings (as always, feedback is encouraged!):

The Practice Activity.doc Tower Building Activity.doc

Delivery Schedule.xls

Here is the link to a Bellingham teacher’s website who has posted Properties of Matter student sheets and reading questions in a PDF format.

 http://wwwfms.bham.wednet.edu/Staff/boriss/propertiesOfMatterPart1.htm

Several SPS science teachers collaborated in 2005-2006 to align the chemistry content students learned in Middle School and High School.  As a result, this working document was created describing lessons from the Properties of Matter module that could be changed, skipped, altered, augmented, etc.

  Chemistry gr 8&9 Alignment.doc