Welcome to Mrs. Snyder’s 6th grade

science class!

Inquiring Minds Wanted!!

About Me

•Education

•Years of experience

•Akimel A-al Science and Math

•Lagos 5th Grade

•Brisas Kindergarten

•Horizon Community Learning

Center K-6 Technology

Meet Mrs. Snyder

What will your child learn this year?

•Learn to think like a scientist!!

•Develop their own experiments

•Plants, cells, and human body

•Weather, oceans, and energy

•At home science project 3rd quarter

•Grow in their knowledge that science is an

ongoing process that changes in response to

new information and discoveries

How will your child be graded?

• Class work, labs, homework, tests, and Daily Science (science notebook)

• Participation in class• Work not completed in

class will be assigned as homework

• Grades are available online

Science NotebooksA tool for scientists to record their thinking and their learning before, during and after a science investigation.

Will need to bring this notebook everyday to class.

Everything from science class will be pasted or taped into this notebook.

Students are graded on their notebook.

Work not completed in class may be Homework.

Science as Inquiry• Ongoing all year• Refers to the diverse ways in which

scientists study the natural world and provide explanations based on evidence from their work

• Questioning, planning, & conducting investigations

• Using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data

• Thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations

• Communicating results

1st Quarter

• Science Skills and Inquiry– Design & conduct

investigations

• Plant Systems– Experiments with Plants

• Cell Structure and Function– Structure & hierarchy of

cells

2nd Quarter

• Human Body Systems– How various systems

work together to form vital functions

• Scientific Method– Step-by-step process

for conducting scientific inquiry

3rd Quarter

• Science Project– Conduct a controlled

investigation using the scientific method at home

• Structure of the Earth– Earth’s atmosphere– Earth’s waters (oceans)– Water cycle– Earth’s weather

4th Quarter

• Structure of the Earth - continues– Earth’s atmosphere– Earth’s waters (oceans)– Water Cycle– Earth’s weather

• Energy– Renewable and non-renewable– Generated, stored,

transferred, transformed– Conservation

Science Project

• 3rd quarter• In class • Design and

conduct an experiment

• Complete Power Point presentation

• Give speech to class on experiment

Scientist Wanted Poster

• Your child will choose a famous scientist and create a wanted poster

• The wanted poster will include details, pictures and an outline of information about their chosen scientist Albert Einstein

WANTED FOR THEORY OF RELATIVITY

If your child is absent

• It is THEIR responsibility to come see me about what they have missed

• Your child has one day to turn in work that they’ve missed unless approved by me otherwise the work is late and receives no credit

Late work

• Do homework when assigned

• Have homework completed before you come into class

• Late work receives partial or possibly no credit. It will show as missing on your progress report

Donations for Science Labs & Activities

• There is no money in the district for the consumables used in our labs this year. Examples– Bubble Gum Lab– Solar Ovens– Marshmallow Towers

• We rely on donations from parents and families to help complete these labs.

• Will send emails and notes home with your child when donations are needed.

• Looking for business and corporate partners to help with our science needs as well.

My hopes for this school year…

•To guide every student to successfully challenge

themselves

•To encourage creativity

•To challenge students to ask questions about the

world around them!

•To have every paper your child turns in have their

NAME on it

•To enjoy the learning process

Communication• Email: esnyder@kyrene.org• Phone: 480-541-5904• Website: http://www.kyrene.org/ksdportal/

• My website• http://www.kyrene.org/staff/esnyder/