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Head over to MyGradeBook and check out your Journal Article grade. Remember, it is 20% of your exam. If you do not “remember” your password, please get a better organizational system together and see me immediately. If you have not gotten that assignment to me yet (gulp), please see me immediately.

I’m working on the Journal Article grading this weekend (even though there’s a fantastic marathon of Godzilla movies from the 1960′s playing tonight that keeps distracting me). Nevertheless, I will have your articles graded with comments and responses by Monday or possibly Tuesday at the latest. I’ve really been impressed with some of the projects [...]

Here is the check-in we completed (hopefully) in class today (worth 5 points as a quiz grade): 1. What is your topic? 2. What is your topic thesis (or what is your journal article about in your own words)? 3. Please give the general outline of your journal article (what type of presentation are you [...]

Our final Journal products are due on Friday December 4, which is the Friday of next week! We’ll discuss this in class tomorrow, but in order to fit everything in (and since we didn’t get all of the materials I ordered due to the backorder shipment), let’s make the following changes… – You can still [...]

Check out the assignments calendar and you’ll see that the Journal Article due date has been moved to Friday December 4, 2009 and will count as part of your exam grade. That is due to the web being down at school today and the possibility that it will be down more this week. In the [...]

Wordle is a great site for plugging in a bunch of text and getting a visual representation of the keywords or most used words. This can be useful if you have a paper that you need to read. So, I decided to plug in some of your Journal Article Check-In’s that were due yesterday. Here [...]

Some of you need more time for experiments, so I’m extending the final due date for the Journal Article to Friday Nov 13th. So, the Journal Article Research Prep Guide will be due on Thurs Nov 12th. This is all changed on our class assignment calendar as well. Let me know what you think in [...]

By now, you should have accumulated some information regarding your journal article (due next Wednesday, btw). You should understand the basics of your topic and have an idea where your research is taking you. So, please respond to this email with your status. – Worth 30 Points as a Test Grade – Please use complete [...]

Here is the Journal Article Prep guide I sent to your SDS email account this morning: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd7gkd7m_107f2gjgjd6 I would open the copy from your email as a Google Doc in your SDS account so you can add in web page URL’s in the section on sources. This is due by 11:59 P.M. on Tues Nov [...]

Congrats to the first inaugural Journal of Middle School Science Editorial Committee, selected from our elections today! Editor: Killian Glenn Assistant Editor: Kelly Renee Ruffing Editorial Board: Avi Borad Matt Henderson Harry McBride Bryson Nager Andrew Pennington Elisabeth Speal