1. Science Coffee Morning By: Hebatallah Gaber

2. Today’s Session Science structure MYP sciences aims Science classes Assessments Parent tips: How to help your children in science? Students tips: how to be successful in science? Managebac

3. Science structure @ Uptown PYP: Science MYP grades 6-8: Sciences MYP grades 9-10: Biology- Physics- Chemistry DP grades 11-12: Biology- Physics- Chemistry

4. MYP Sciences Aims To encourage and enable students to: understand and appreciate science and its implications consider science as a human endeavour with benefits and limitations cultivate analytical, inquiring and flexible minds that pose questions, solve problems, construct explanations and judge arguments develop skills to design and perform investigations, evaluate evidence and reach conclusions build an awareness of the need to effectively collaborate and communicate apply language skills and knowledge in a variety of real-life contexts develop sensitivity towards the living and non-living environments reflect on learning experiences and make informed choices.

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6. Our Changing World

7. What we do in the classroom: Class activities Modelling Lab experiments Lab report write ups Research Presentations Tests Written work Games

10. Assessments: How will students be graded? Four criteria: Criterion A: Knowing and Understanding (Test/Data analysis/ Case study) Criterion B: Inquiring and Designing (Design of an independent experiment) Criterion C: Processing and Evaluating (Data collection and conclusion of an investigation) Criterion D: Reflecting on the Impacts of Science (Essay/ Presentation/ Poster/ Brochure)

11. How will students grades look like? Each criterion is valued out of 8 points Total grade is then calculated out of 32 Grade boundaries… Final grade out of 7 GradeBoundary guidelines 11-5 26-9 310-14 415-18 519-23 624-27 728-32

12. Parent Tips: How to help your child in science Ask your child to share with you what they are learning. Encourage inquiry and investigation at home when the opportunity presents itself. Check your child’s agenda for homework or assessment tasks due dates and help them keep a schedule for completing assignments. Help your child study for major tests by calling out vocabulary words or asking random questions from their book. If your occupation or hobbies involve science, please consider speaking with our classes.

13. Student tips: how to be successful in science Use your diary to record short term and long term assignments. 2-2.5 hours of science homework assigned per week (including assessment tasks). Keep your science notes and sheets organized in your copybook. Reviewing daily Learning objectives. Develop your ATL skills, they help you “Learn how to learn”.

14. Mangebac All students should have activated their managebac accounts. All assignments will be posted and submitted through mangebac.

15. Claim: Factual nature of science