First Quiz

Students took their first quiz in science class today.  Although they also received a paper copy of the quiz, the questions and answers were served via the student responders.  They did amazingly well on the quiz.  Not that I didn't think they would, but it was the first quiz and sometimes students don't know how to prepare for a new teacher's first assessment.  Not so in this case obviously.
After the quiz, students were allowed to take out a laptop computer to find a news article for next week or the week after.  We also reviewed the article summaries that they turned in earlier this week, noting what mistakes were common among many 8th graders.
We ended the class by collaboratively working on Activity 1-5.
Homework for Monday is the 2nd news article summary.