Science Classroom Connection

Unit Challenge Scenario: Claim #1 below is in this week’s assignment for your analysis.

 “8^th Graders,

I need your help for our great community. I’ve heard many people having discussions regarding the following claims:

1. Global temperatures are rising, and they are rising faster than in the past.
2. A change in climate will have an impact on our community. 
3. The actions we take impact our environment.

I need you to investigate these claims so that we can better prepare for our future. We need to know if there will be negative impacts on people and the environment. If there will be impacts, we need to know whether we can do something to reduce those impacts. 

I am challenging you to educate people about how Earth’s climate system works, what causes global climate to change, if people and the natural environment will be impacted, and what we can do about it. I look forward to hearing your recommendations about what we should do. 

This challenge is being given to all 8^th graders in the city.  I will use the winning recommendations in my annual “state of the city” speech to our community. 

Good luck and thank you for your work to help our community become even greater!

Sincerely,

The Mayor”

Students: Assignment #12 is up on Google Classroom. It’s due no later than Friday midnight, May 8th, 2020 (Due to the Holy Month of Ramadan). Give yourself about 90 minutes to complete it properly. I suggest that you do it in one-sitting, because you will be able to stay focused and understand and master the material better.

For those of you who have fallen behind in your school work due to your unforeseen circumstances such as the Holy Month of Ramadan, the window for the assignments’ due date has been extended until midnight tonight, Friday, may 01, 2020.

Moving forward, you need to start planning accordingly, i.e., if you tend to do most of your school work in the evening rather than during the daytime hours, pay close attention to your Friday evenings, because after midnight, your work will be considered officially LATE!

To login to Google Classroom go to:

Classroom.Google.com

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“We hope you and your families have enjoyed the weekend! Here is your weekly update that new content is available for this coming week. It is also important to note that we are launching Ramadan specific content this week that will continue throughout the holy month. Please make sure that families are aware of this new addition! The number of families we are reaching continues to grow and we are now over 6,000 content views across the elementary and middle school level!! Please continue to help us disseminate this information widely! We are so excited to see that these resources have been useful, making everyone’s days of ‘social distancing’ a little bit healthier.”

Here are the links to this week’s content:

NEW! This is the link to the Ramadan lessons (both English and Arabic versions): https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESRamadan

This is the link for the Elementary School Lessons in English: https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESESLessonsEnglish

This is the link for the Elementary School Lessons in Arabic: https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESESLessonsArabic

This is the link for the Middle School Lessons in English: https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESMSLessonsEnglish

This is the link for the Middle School Lessons in Arabic: https://dl.orangedox.com/DSHINESMSLessonsArabic

Be well,

Jeanne and Erin

Jeanne Barcelona PhD

Assistant Professor 

Kinesiology, Health and Sport Studies

Wayne State University

2171 FAB

656 West Kirby

Detroit, MI 48202

313-577-3484 (office)

313-577-5999 (Fax)

http://coe.wayne.edu/profile/gm8864

Assignment # 10 & #11 are up in Google Classroom. Remember that you have one week to complete the assignments and their due date is Friday, May 01, 2020 at 3:00 pm.

MAKE COPIES OF ASSIGNMENTS BECAUSE YOU WILL NEED ASSIGNMENT #10 FOR ASSIGNMENT #11.

Avoid waiting until the last minute on Friday to get busy on them. This tends to cause you to rush through the work and make poor mistakes that will prove to be costly.

For most of you without pre-set or determined circumstances, there are 24 hours left for you to complete this assignment. Otherwise, it will be considered late. As you know, late means one letter grade less. DO NOT FORGET TO SUBMIT THE ASSIGNMENT!

“We hope this message finds you all in good health. Woodworth Middle School will be handing out Chromebooks to students who still need technology on Monday, April 27th from 12-2.  Parent and student ID must be present in order to get a Chromebook. We will be handing Chromebooks out off of Hubbard Drive facing Greenfield – Door #7.  We are asking everyone to stay in their car and drive up waiting for directions from our volunteers.  We ask everyone to adhere to the strict guidelines of social distancing in order to protect our families and our volunteers.”  

Contact information during shutdown:

• General information:  313-827-3006 or communications@dearbornschools.org

• Social emotional hotline – 313-827-8500 or dss@dearbornschools.org

• Tech support – 313-827-8400

• Human Resources & Student Services – 313-827-3068

• Special Education – 313-827-7050