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VOLUME 35, NUMBER 3 Fall 2012 EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS VOLUME 35, NUMBER 3 Fall 2012 EXECUTIVE HIGHLIGHTS Executive of SSTS - page 1 Message from the Editor - page 2 Call for Submissions - page 2 President’s Report - page 3 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES Canadian Light Source - page 4 Sciematics 2013 - page 8 RESOURCES Safe Drinking water Foundation - page 6 SOEEA Resources - page 7 ARTICLES Engaging the YouTube Generation - page 10 Sask Envirothon 2013 - page 11 Ranking Task Exercises - page 12 Where’s the Pressure - page 14 Using Simple Tools to Analyze Sound - page 16 Themes for Future Issues: Issue Theme Submission Deadline Winter Assessment Jan 20, 2012 Spring Technology May 20, 2012 If you have a suggestion for a future theme please contact [email protected] The SSTS has a new, easy to find website! Go online to find out more infor- mation about : ASSIST Sciematics Executive Members Membership On Cover: Students competing in the 2012 Envirothon, Water being forced out of a bottle Executive of Saskatchewan Science Teachers’ Society President — Phil Langford Dean Elliott Bert Fox Community High School Ministry of Education P.O. Box 133 Science Consultant — Science & Technology Unit Fort Qu’Appelle, SK S0G 1S0 6th Floor, 2220 College Ave. H: 306-332-2819 W: 306-332-4343 Regina, SK S4P 4V9 Fax: 306-332-2857 W: 306-787-6765 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Vice-President/Editor — Patrick A. Kossmann University of Saskatchewan Liaison — Tim Greenall High School Molnar P.O. Box 70 College of Education — U of S Balgonie, SK S0G 0E0 89 Salisbury Dr. H: 306-721-5464 W: 306-771-2566 Saskatoon, SK S7H 3J3 Fax: 306-771-4207 H: 306-373-0505 W: 306-966-7572 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Email: [email protected] @Ironscientist University of Regina Liaison — John Mac- Secretary — Marianne Amos Donald 308 Arthur Avenue University of Regina Saskatoon, SK S7N 1J3 3737 Wascana Parkway H: 653-5725 W: 683-7380 Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] H: 306-789-0087 W: 306-585-4565 Email: [email protected] Treasurer — Brittany Bandur Box 2411 Members-At-Large: Melville, SK S0A 2P0 Email: [email protected] Barry Charington Past President — Wayne Clark Evan Hardy Collegiate Yorkton Regional High School 605 Acadia Dr. 150 Gladstone Ave. N. Saskatoon, SK S7H 3V8 Yorkton, SK S3N 2A8 H: 934-0537 W: 683-8221-8665 H: 306-782-4296 W: 306-786-5560 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Fax: 306-786-7723 Email: [email protected] Laura Connors Central Collegiate Web Design — Stephanie Pipke-Painchaud 149 Oxford Street W. North East School Division Moose Jaw, SK S6H 2N4 Box 1000 H: 306-693-4691 W: 306-692-6965 Tisdale, SK S0E 1T0 Email: [email protected] H: 306-873-2685 W: 306-752-2525 Email: [email protected] @Stephanie_Pipke Follow the SSTS on Twitter @SkScieTeachers STF Liaison — Murray Wall 2317 Arlington Ave. Saskatoon, SK S7J 2H8 W: 306-373-1660 (1-800-667-7762) Email: [email protected] ACCELERATOR 35:3 Page 1 Message From The Editor Patrick A. Kossmann The new year has began and I’m sure everyone has been I’ve been having students make corrections to assessments working hard to get classes organized and dealing with like tests. I would allow students to spend two days re- what ever new initiative is handed down from those in answering questions. For problem questions, to ensure power. I’ve been thinking a lot about assessment in my students were not just copying other’s answers, I request classroom. Some of you will already have realized this that students explain in words what they did to answer the from reading my past articles about my current master’s question. As incentive to complete the corrections I gave project. My philosophy seems to have shifted since I first students a portion of the marks they missed when the started teaching. In my early years assessment was assessment was originally handed in. something that I would use at the end of a unit or lesson This year I have started allowing assessment rewrites. to check to see if I had successfully taught what was When you fail your drivers exam you are allowed to take it necessary. These assessments took the form of again. I felt students deserved the same opportunity in assignments, quizzes and exams. I felt that having physics. It’s been a lot of work. Every time I allow a different kinds of assessment was enough to make me a rewrite I make a new assessment. I can’t bring myself to let progressive and caring teacher. students redo one after I’ve already handed back the I’ve started to realize that assessment should be used for original and corrected it with the class. This has meant that more than just checking to see what was learned. It the whole class gets their tests, or quiz or assignment back should be used as a tool to encourage learning. Having quickly and can see what they did wrong. They can also students perform an assessment and then moving on then, if they choose come in and redo it. doesn’t allow the student to grow as a learner. All As a down side I’ve been making a lot of assessments. My they’ve learned is that they don’t know something and last test had four different copies. If you’ve got a better now have to work on something else. idea, or just a different idea drop me a line. I could use the What could I do to ensure the student continued to work help. on the skills I wanted them too? Enjoy this issue I’m working on some format changes for How could I allow a student to keep working on the journal. Send me comments about your opinions too. something I’d already corrected and returned? [email protected] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Would you like to share your ideas with other teachers? Would you allow others to benefit from your expertise? Perhaps you have a concern about science education in Saskatchewan today. We are always looking for articles and teacher demos/classroom activities to print in our journal. You can send your articles to us in a variety of ways: by email (preferably MS WORD attachment or plain TEXT) to [email protected], FAX (306-771-4207), or regular mail (P.O. Box 70, Balgonie SK. S0G 0E0). Any photographs that you wish to enclose would be great! They need to be mailed to the editor by snail mail, or an original, not scanned, digital photograph can be emailed along with the article. If you are emailing in an article and/or photograph, please email it to: [email protected] at your convenience. Page 2 ACCELERATOR 35:3 President’s Report Phil Lagford I am typing this report two nights prior to our first round of Llewellyn, a noted author on science, inquiry, and interim reports being disseminated (which explains the differentiated instruction, as a key presenter on Friday. We reason my editor had to wait an extra week to get this are hoping to wrap up the conference by shifting the “bear column!). Such an event obviously involves getting hands- pit” session on curriculum to having a series of experts on with assessment and evaluation. Some teachers like to from the field (industry) helping us see the value of the do the Dog River “Woolerton” maneuver every time they new grade 11 science courses being launched. Stay tuned hear the word “marking”. And for some of us, if that is all for the next issue of The Accelerator for list of sessions we do, then we get a gold star for good behaviour! But being offered this year! realistically, what should we be setting as marking targets? There are any number of authors who have varied opinions There are a couple of new initiatives being launched this on the topic, and just as many educators with their year to help science teachers in Saskatchewan. Details to questions on why we are busting our chops to do so much follow in the next issue! But if you live in the Tisdale marking when the end result in the vast majority of cases region, and you teach middle years science, there will be a can be accurately arrived at with far fewer marking tasks. November workshop offered on a Saturday (date will be A very good question, and one that is addressed quite confirmed on our website: www.ssts.ca) to help with those thought-provokingly in Damian Cooper’s book entitled teaching optics, and those teaching heat and temperature. Talk About Assessment. He has written a sequel that I have These sessions, the new Sciematics format, and other yet to read but it is entitled Redefining Fair: How to Plan, things in the works, are all part of the SSTS celebrating 50 Assess, and Grade for Excellence in Mixed Ability years as an organization!! If you attend Sciematics, you Classrooms. If there was ever a title that was designed for just may win a new lab coat with our fancy) 50 year logo attracting my attention, this is it! So I will be diving into embossed on the pocket! A collectors edition if there ever that book as part of my professional growth plan this year. was one! So if you see an SSTS executive member Damian’s basic advice when it comes to assessment is two- anywhere, stop them to say “Happy Birthday” and ask fold: 1) “Assessment must be good for students.
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