Feb.+9+Assignments

**__Assignments due on Tuesday, Feb 14__**

**1. Read Chapter 4 in our text - //Teaching Children Science// - you will work together in class on questions 2 and 3 from Going Further on p. 74**

**2. Read Chapter 2 in our text //Schoolyard Enhanced Learning// and complete the reading journal entry as seen below**

**//3.// Read the //Desktop Aquaponics// handout**

**//Schoolyard Enhanced Learning//** ||  ||   ||
 * **Reading:** || ** Eight Most interesting key concepts** || ** Four Questions or ideas to pursue** ||
 * **Chapter 2**
 * **//Desktop Aquaponics//** ||  ||

**Get Started on UDL Science Portal assignment due on Tuesday, Feb 21 **

**Online Activities from the UDL Science Portal: Beginning Plants** You will go to [|http://udl.portal.concord.org/signin]and sign up using the **student account** I created for you on for the website **UDL Science Portal. I will hand out a list of usernames and we all have the same password - "carthage"**

Today in class you will be experiencing the **UDL Science Portal intermediate Plants Unit** as a student by completing online activities from this unit

First, go to [|UDL Science Portal] and sign in. You will all have the password "carthage" to access your student account. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will log in and you should see listed Beginning Plants. Click on the green arrow next to the unit name to begin You may get a message telling you to run the installer. Please do so - it will let you install on the Saemann computers. The Installer will download and then you will need to click on it to run it. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">After running the installer, go back to the main class page and click on the green arrow next to the name of the unit: Intermediate Plants. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will see that the only item on the picture menu that you can highlight is the "pre-test" so complete that first. Don't worry if you are unsure of any answers, just respond the best that you can.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will read and complete the embedded questions and activities:


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Complete Pretest
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Read Introduction
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Skim the story
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Skim the hands-on - but you do not do :)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Complete the Modeling - both Photosynthesis modules
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Skim Math Activities
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Read Wrapping up