Science+-+7th+Grade+-+Meeting+Notes

**Tuesday, October 20, 2009**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen

Worked on budget for rocket parts. Building rockets will be a common formative assessment where students will demonstrate an understanding of Newton's three laws of motion.

**Tuesday, October 7, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Mike Makin Shared website formative assessments and placed them portaportal.com

**Tuesday, September 30, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Mike Makin Began construction of model rockets that will be used as an assessment for units on measurement and on forces, motion, and energy.

**Tuesday, September 23, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Mike Makin Discussed using the construction of model rockets as a formative assessment. Designed and activity that requires students to use the metric system to measure the parts of a rocket. The students then use the data to prepare the parts for the rocket. See attached.

**Tuesday, September 16, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Mike Makin Completed work on Dead Scientist Webquest. See attached.

**Tuesday, September 9, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Mike Makin Discussed focus for the year and briefed Mike on accomplishments from last year. Decided to merge Dead Scientist Webquest with MAPS and an assessment given by Steve Moulen and a project used by Steve Pomelow.

**Tuesday, June 3, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Steve Pomelow Continued work on Dead Scientist webquest. Began drafting working on assessment rubric for essay portion of the dead scientist webquest.

**Tuesday, May 27, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Steve Pomelow Continued work on Dead Scientist webquest. Completed Introduction, Task, Procedure. Began working on assessment.

**Tuesday, April 7, 2008**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Steve Pomelow Collaborated on common assessment involving researching scientists. Agreed on WebQuest "Introduction" and on "Task". Continued drafting "Procedures."

**Tuesday, April 1**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Steve Pomelow
 * 1) Compared ordered electricity text with textbooks on hand. Discovered that there is too great a difference between the two texts.
 * 2) Collaborated on common assessment involving researching scientists. Agreed on WebQuest "Introduction" and on "Task". Began drafting "Procedures."

**Tuesday, March 18**
Present: Mark Karter, Stephen Moulen, Steve Pomelow
 * 1) Wikispaces: Practiced using wikispaces to collaborate on common assessments.
 * 2) Discussed textbook order and called Glencoe sales for a quote.
 * 3) Webquest/Common assessment: Decided to collaborate on a common assessment, "Not All Scientists are Dead White Guys." Steve Pomelow will bring in similar project for use to merge with WebQuest begun by Steve Moulen.