15:52:27 From Peggy Moore : Hey everyone. No camera here! 15:53:12 From Peggy Moore : I agree with the graph/table issues. I even had a girl not know where Africa was on a map. Seriously!! 15:53:26 From adadam.hamrick2 : wow 15:54:47 From Jessie Butcher : HI everyone! Doing first grade homework with my kid! 15:56:20 From James Johnson : Cat 15:57:16 From Jessie Butcher : So far so good! 16:02:03 From Josh Revels : Hi all! 16:06:30 From Josh Revels : yes 16:06:43 From Angela Hollida : I have 16:08:50 From Peggy Moore : Is it too late to order a t-shirt? 16:09:25 From Jessie Butcher : Davita and I will do our best to be there by 6pm! We'll be pushing it! 16:10:12 From Jessica Russler : I know I will not be there by 6PM, but I will be there as soon as I can 16:12:07 From Peggy Moore : cool beans. I hope I wrote the password down somewhere... 16:13:13 From Jessie Butcher : I loved the video homework. I actually went and started watching some of the other lectures as well. She's very interesting! 16:13:56 From Jessica Russler : Yes 16:13:59 From Davita : I did! 16:14:02 From Peggy Moore : absolutely 16:14:09 From Jessica Russler : five of six 16:14:13 From Jessica Russler : correct 16:14:19 From Jessie Butcher : yes! I knew the answers. 16:14:25 From adadam.hamrick2 : nope, did pretty well 16:15:05 From Josh Revels : 4.55 bya 16:16:23 From Josh Revels : A lot of high school students have these misconceptions. A really cheap way to do the same question technique would be with kahoot! go to getkahoot.com to do the interactive cell phone surveys and quiz games. 16:16:31 From Jessica Russler : marine 16:16:35 From Joshua Buckley to ESS Passport(Privately) : is the share-a-thon required? also does it have to be over ess standards or can it be concerning the reading and science literature standards? 16:17:20 From adadam.hamrick2 : Mine usually get it wrong also 16:19:03 From ESS Passport to Joshua Buckley(Privately) : we would love you to do it please 16:20:25 From Ashley Chouinard : i'm good 16:20:27 From Peggy Moore : too many to list here! 16:20:30 From Ashley Chouinard : lol 16:20:38 From Ashley Chouinard : we just went over the ozone one 16:20:39 From Joshua Buckley : erosion definition 16:20:51 From Ashley Chouinard : andrea and i did a unit on EMS 16:20:51 From Jessica Russler : my students are having trouble understanding that gases are already melted! 16:21:35 From Josh Revels : YES 16:22:39 From Greg Page : My students found out that my class really rocks! 16:23:17 From Ashley Chouinard : haha greg! 16:23:27 From Peggy Moore : exactly! Never an always in science. 16:24:08 From Peggy Moore : I have actually used the cigarette example for correlations, etc. 16:24:13 From Jessie Butcher : LOL Greg! 16:24:18 From Greg Page : Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphically that is 16:24:24 From Josh Revels : Deb 16:24:44 From Josh Revels : I have a comment to add. Can I go on mic? 16:25:36 From Greg Page : Have you guys given a test yet? 16:26:40 From adadam.hamrick2 : yes 16:26:44 From James Johnson : I have 16:26:50 From Chloe Bland : yes 16:26:56 From adadam.hamrick2 : I give tests about every two weeks 16:26:56 From Andrea Carr : yes 16:27:07 From Davita : yep - another one coming up this week 16:27:08 From Greg Page : oh 16:27:11 From ESS Passport : yes josh 16:27:23 From Peggy Moore : I give tests more often with the idea to get it while it is fresh in their little minds. 16:28:05 From Greg Page : you think I should give one? 16:29:06 From Joshua Buckley : I am on my 4th test and giving a cumulative quarter test. 16:29:19 From Peggy Moore : We had MidTerm exams today. 16:29:41 From James Johnson : I'll be doing my 3rd later this week or early next 16:29:43 From Peggy Moore : lots of background noise....hard to hear 16:31:45 From adadam.hamrick2 : mine does 16:32:11 From Ashley Chouinard : i have a great lab for scientific method. i bought it from TPT. i'll share it at WVSTA as long as no one turns me in hahaha. 16:32:34 From Ashley Chouinard : it's like the game clue kind of. 16:32:54 From Melaine Hall : Please share. 16:32:54 From elizabeth.wasiluk : I just got back from a pulsar search meeting, it just ended. 16:34:23 From adadam.hamrick2 : Following introduction and setting up their science notebooks, I start out my class with identifying problems and my students discuss solutions and experimental design, but not the whole scientific method 16:34:58 From James Johnson : I think I lost connection for a sec there 16:35:07 From Jessica Russler : I thought the checks lab did this very well btw 16:35:11 From Ashley Chouinard : yes. a diamond has come up missing and there are 6 suspects 16:35:18 From Ashley Chouinard : they have 6 substances to test, (all white powders) and then their testing links a suspect to the crime. 16:35:30 From Jessica Russler : my kids loved it! 16:35:31 From adadam.hamrick2 : It's a great lab I did! 16:35:32 From Angela Hollida : I did 16:35:33 From Jessie Butcher : I did! 16:35:41 From Joshua Buckley : the checks lab is great 16:35:44 From Ashley Chouinard : it sounds 'elementary' but it's not. it's really fun too. 16:36:21 From James Johnson : I was thinking to use it to demonstrate how we can infer information about Earth's history as an intro to geologic time scale. Haven't done it quite yet though 16:36:21 From Peggy Moore : sounds good, Ashley 16:36:49 From Jessie Butcher : It killed my kids that we had no answers...they bugged me for a week with "theories." It was awesome! 16:36:51 From Chloe Bland : yes 16:37:10 From Peggy Moore : same here, Jessie 16:37:10 From adadam.hamrick2 : I used it to demonstrate the difference between causation and corrilation 16:37:54 From Jessica Russler : I loved listening to the conversations that I heard as they worked through the checks 16:38:04 From Angela Hollida : I am getting ready to try the distance of galaxy CD thing 16:38:40 From Ashley Chouinard : andrea and i are in our meteorology unit. we have done several of tina's labs. 16:38:42 From Peggy Moore : I have the galaxy CD thing already laminated and cute out--- planned for later. 16:39:06 From Peggy Moore : cut, not cute :) 16:39:12 From Josh Revels : i did! 16:39:13 From chizer : I did the geologic time scale activity. Students were amazed at the gaps in the timescale. 16:39:15 From Joshua Buckley : yes 16:39:16 From elizabeth.wasiluk : I am getting ready to do the minerals lab but I need more sets. 16:39:16 From Josh Revels : I just finished minerals 16:39:22 From adadam.hamrick2 : I did an exploratory with them, just did this yesterday 16:39:37 From adadam.hamrick2 : I have a max of 4 students in a class...so I have a set 16:39:38 From Greg Page : I am rocking my class 16:39:51 From Peggy Moore : wow---4 students 16:39:56 From adadam.hamrick2 : Yep 16:39:56 From RCOOPER : i did the HR diagram activity. 16:40:02 From Joshua Buckley : they loved testing my rocks from the trip 16:40:19 From Greg Page : Nice Josh 16:40:22 From James Johnson : I modified the minerals into a lab. Gave each lab table 2 minerals. 2 kids per side of the table. When they got their two minerals tested, they traded with the students on the other side of the table, so each group ended up doing four 16:40:22 From adadam.hamrick2 : It's nice to bring our own experiences and sample into the class 16:40:36 From James Johnson : I had some extra samples of biotite and galena that I used 16:41:35 From elizabeth.wasiluk : James I am going to suggest to my co-teacher what you did so we can do it as well. 16:42:12 From James Johnson : I had 5 lab groups, I think. 16:42:15 From elizabeth.wasiluk : We did a great Topographic Map activity from a 8th grade textbook. Kids are making a video on GPS technology. 16:42:25 From Jessica Russler : I have been helping the autism teacher write labs for her classes 16:42:44 From Jessica Russler : she did a rock cycle lab with crayons 16:43:09 From James Johnson : Ah, cool 16:43:25 From adadam.hamrick2 : wahoo 16:43:28 From Jessica Russler : woohoo 16:43:31 From Peggy Moore : oooh! surprises!! 16:44:05 From James Johnson : Mine are head and shoulders better than the ones I had last year 16:44:07 From Peggy Moore : I have large classes. Any idea how to do more labs with immature 9th graders? 16:44:24 From Peggy Moore : they get wild 16:44:26 From Andrea Carr : Mine are large too Peg 16:44:36 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Stuff for Independent Learning Plan kids to work with my co-teacher who has no science background. Class sizes are 32+ kids. 16:44:38 From Joshua Buckley : mine tooo 16:44:41 From Jessica Russler : I say the same 16:44:42 From Ashley Chouinard : virtual labs 16:44:46 From Josh Revels : That's what I do in those classes 16:44:48 From chizer : FOSS Kits are awesome! 16:44:49 From Peggy Moore : we do lots of paper labs, but that doesn't quite get the material across 16:44:51 From Deb Martin : my 9th graders are better than my seniors in the same class 16:45:21 From Jessica Russler : I swear by my lab safety contract 16:45:33 From Josh Revels : That works even better if you haev a co-teacher! 16:45:36 From elizabeth.wasiluk : We are doing that now, switching back and forth. 16:45:43 From Peggy Moore : ok---thanks for the ideas 16:45:46 From adadam.hamrick2 : Stations work great, because the kids are up and moving and know the class is going to be varies 16:45:51 From adadam.hamrick2 : varied* 16:46:14 From Peggy Moore : my lab is in a separate/adjacent room 16:46:14 From Ashley Chouinard : yes. running a timer helps too. 16:46:39 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Stations do not work as there is no room for students to be out of seats and gathering around a spot in class. 16:46:52 From Davita : Timers are great! It's important to make clear what the timer counts down to. 16:47:11 From Peggy Moore : hahahaha 16:47:24 From James Johnson : What we do here is that each lab group is assigned a partner and a station that they always work at and with. They sign off and inventory their drawer contents at the beginning and end of the semester. They're responsible for their drawers, because if anything comes up missing or whatever, they could end up paying to replace it. 16:47:45 From James Johnson : That's kind of the system the other science teachers here do, so I've been following it too 16:47:46 From Peggy Moore : good idea....they stay put and the station moves 16:48:03 From elizabeth.wasiluk : We have numbers and bags of material and they lose 10 points if anything is missing. 16:48:27 From Joshua Buckley : wish we had that at my school James 16:48:46 From James Johnson : And I keep a record of their drawer and partner assignments in a binder in my cabinet 16:49:07 From elizabeth.wasiluk : yikes, and I came late! How do we get to WSTA. Is it flooded in New Orleans? 16:49:43 From elizabeth.wasiluk : I know that. Will do. 16:50:49 From elizabeth.wasiluk : What time should we get there on Thursday? 16:50:58 From James Johnson : 6 pm 16:51:07 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Thanks James. 16:51:18 From Jessica Russler : I think they will send it after 16:51:26 From elizabeth.wasiluk : They have not approved my leave yet. 16:51:39 From Jessie Butcher : Do we need to eat before we meet? 16:52:45 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Might be late, can't leave until 3 p. m. My leave has to have school board approval. Principal is not enough. 16:53:10 From Jessie Butcher : Thank you! 16:53:23 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Thanks for food in advance. 16:53:49 From elizabeth.wasiluk : How many things should we bring? 16:54:01 From Jessica Russler : I will resend mine 16:54:15 From Jessica Russler : I did not include the orgiinal source 16:54:36 From Jessica Russler : see you 16:54:36 From elizabeth.wasiluk : Bye! 16:54:38 From adadam.hamrick2 : bye 16:54:38 From Josh Revels : See you soon