Comets

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Comets

• By
• Kim
• Reeder

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Class Overview

• Grade Level 6-9 MD Self Contained Resource Room
  Class
• School Setting Rural District (Urbana) Junior
  High School Resource Room
• Approximately 600 students
• Standards (On Plan) Earth and Space Sciences
  Grade 8.

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Standards

• Ohio Benchmark Grade 8 Earth and Space Sciences
• A. Describe how the positions and motions of the
  objects in the universe cause predictable and
  cyclic events.
• Ohio Indicators Grade 8 Earth and Space Sciences
• 8A3. - Compare the orbits and composition of
  comets and asteroids with that of Earth.

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Differentiation and Modifications

• The lesson was differentiated and modified
  because of class academic level and learning
  styles.
• Graphic organizer was used to help students find
  and organize most important ideas from reading.
• Summarization of content learned was done as we
  were making comet.
• Comet was a hands-on activity to address
  students different learning style.
• Lower level and higher level students were put in
  groups of two to make project.

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Assessments

• Formative
• Discussion participation
• Students graphic organizer
• Informal observation
• Pre-test

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Assessments

• Summative
• Comet project participation
• Post-test

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Data and Results
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Data Interpretation

• All students increased their score.
• Student 1 - 33.3
• Student 3 - 50
• Student 4 - 16.6
• Student 5 - 42.9

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Reflection

• The lesson was a success.
• The students were engaged in a hands-on project.
• The graphic organizer and project helped them to
  learn and summarize new information.
• All students showed an increase in test scores
  proving they did learn new material.

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Reflection