Ms. Strome's Blog

Here is link to a video about online learning one of the 7th grade social studies teachers made:

At this point the plan is to assign a lesson from MobyMax science and an article to read each week. I will be able to see how long you spent and how you did on the questions so I can grade you on your MobyMax work.

Below are the directions for MobyMax.
1. Sign in to Google with your Dearborn Public Schools Account.
(like you sign into a Chromebook at school)
2. Go to dearbornschools.org
3. Click on the Student Portal link.
4. Open the blue “Clever” link.
5. Open the green whale “MobyMax” link.
6. Assigned lessons will automatically pop up.

If you have trouble with not being able to submit or print anything you can write the answers on paper and email me a picture. I will put the articles in as google docs. There is some advice for online learning linked on my blog below.

I will open up the ability to comment to each other in google classroom so you can ask questions unless you abuse it and post stuff you shouldn’t post. Please be responsible and don’t make me shut comments off again. Remember everyone (including me) can see anything you post in the comments!

I cannot give you the unit test at home but we will still do the test once school starts back up again. I added a google doc version of the study guide for those who want to study while we are all working form home.

Online assignment #1 is to do the Intro to Human Body Systems From Cells to Systems lesson slides and test in Moby Max. This is due in one week (by 3/22)

I will post assignment #2 in google classroom midweek. This will be an article with questions, CCR and CER.

One of the 8th grade science teachers wrote up some advice about online learning. (She is much younger than me so she has had many more online classes than me.) Here is a link to her blog post.

I will continue to use Google Classroom because you are all already enrolled and should be more familiar with that than iLearn. I will start putting assignments in as google docs where possible as well. You can make a copy that you can type on. Be sure to submit assignments so I can see them. I am not sure if we are going to be able to post new assignments in the grade book or not. (We cannot post anything on snow days but I don’t know what that means for this closure) I will at least be keeping track of your work on paper to enter later.

Some of you are asking about the unit 1 study guide. I put the file into google classroom as a pdf before I knew we were closing schools down. I am not sure if I can give you the unit test at home through iLearn or not. If we are still doing the test I will put a Google doc version into google classroom that you should be able to edit.

March 27th is still the end of the term and you will get marking period 3 grades. Missing assignments can still be submitted if you take a picture or scan of each side of the completed assignment and email the pictures to me.

I don’t know about the end of unit test yet. I will let you know when I find out.

stromej@dearbornschools.org

My A-day students can complete the work I posted on my blog for Friday. Everything is in google classroom.

We will be posting assignments online that students tcomplete weekly. Check on the blog and google classroom for updates. Assignments will be posted on Monday and Wednesday due on Sunday unless the state requires more. Email me with questions and check the school blog.

Tues/ Wed

BW # 34

We built and tested towers (see the lesson 7 slides in google classroom)

Thurs/ Fri

We finished the water phase change graph bellwork sheet (sheet #8) and turned it in (BW # 35)

We discussed criteria and constraints and added the words into notebooks (See lesson 7 slides in google classroom)

Kids compared criteria and constraints for the bridges and answered the questions (See lesson 7 slides)

The unit 1 test will be given in the next week or two. Since it is 9 pages long we will be dividing it up into two days. One day will be the matter and engineering parts and one will be the water cycle. We will work on the study guide Monday and Tuesday next week but I did put a copy into google classroom for kids who want to start studying early.

We were WIDA testing Wed 3/4- Fri 3/7 and we were on the field trip Mon 3/9 so things were a bit different for this time period. We did a sheet about the water bottle model from the reading, answered some questions about the water cycle activity, talked about the field trip and watched a couple videos about bridges for lesson 7.

• Bellwork #31
• We discussed the phase change reading and corrected it.
• We came up with the checklist for the bottle of water part on “page 4.” Some classes had time in class to work on this and some took it home for homework.
• We did a water cycle activity with stations.
• I handed out progress reports to everyone. These must be returned signed by everyone! The missing assignments did not print on these progress reports for some reason. There should be about 10 grades entered. You can check student or parent connect to see what is missing. The current grade is on the top by the student’s name.

I handed out the new bellwork sheet and they did BW #30.

They did the first three pages for a phase change reading. The last part on the back about the bottle of water is not homework but the rest is homework if not finished in class.

They used the reading to check their ice cube comic and then turned the comic in.

I handed back quizzes and assignments.