Today's class lesson focused on what to do for your news article summaries. These are due the first day of every week, starting with Tuesday, September 8th. Students need to find an article that interests them from http://www.sciencedaily.com/. Once they decide on an article, they should click the "PRINT" icon near the upper right of the page. This will get rid of all the extra ads, pictures and hyperlinks and leave them only with their article to print. If a printer is not working or not available, they should click "EMAIL" and send the article to kcremer@mounties.k12.pa.us, my school email address. Not being able to print should never be an excuse for not having this assignment complete.
After selecting the article, students must now summarize it using a standard template, which is available on my Moodle site. They can also pick up a paper copy of this in my room at anytime. The depth of the summary is also available on the moodle site, titled "News Article Descriptor" They have to say in a complete sentence what the article is about, another complete sentence that says where the research took place, and then one or two sentences that says why they feel the research is important to science. The final step is to provide two vocab. words and define them. These words should be challenging enough that the student needed to look them up in a dictionary, or online using http://www.dictionary.com/.
We also discussed how students can get extra credit. Students that have a complete written summary on time can volunteer to give an oral 30-second summary that is worth five extra credit points. I showed mathematically how much this has the potential to help their grade.
Students were given a practice news article to read and summarize in class. We reviewed their summaries together, and it seemed as though everyone walked out of class with a firm grasp on what is expected from this weekly assignment.
No homework was collected or assigned.
PS- Go EAGLES!
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