North County Middle School-Rm 7-Where everyone is welcome and SCIENCE happens!
Dear students and family,
Welcome to my classes. We are all in this together. Parents, teachers and everyone who interacts with you each day is part of your LEARNING.
In my classes, you will be asked to think critically and creatively about all your classes but especially science and math. You need to be responsible for your own learning, to work cooperatively with your classmates and everyone in the classroom to make it a place for learning. This class will increase your awareness of the natural world all around us, an appreciation of school in general, your community and the rest of the world that interacts with you every day.
Included in classroom work will be reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills because education is passed on by many different ways not just the Internet.
The following is what is expected of each student: This information is also in my disclosure statement which can be viewed by clicking the links.
I want every student to have success this year in your classes, develop new lifetime skills and have experiences to remember this year and every year. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me.
Barry Bolduc
Custodian of Entropy (look it up)
Welcome to my classes. We are all in this together. Parents, teachers and everyone who interacts with you each day is part of your LEARNING.
In my classes, you will be asked to think critically and creatively about all your classes but especially science and math. You need to be responsible for your own learning, to work cooperatively with your classmates and everyone in the classroom to make it a place for learning. This class will increase your awareness of the natural world all around us, an appreciation of school in general, your community and the rest of the world that interacts with you every day.
Included in classroom work will be reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills because education is passed on by many different ways not just the Internet.
The following is what is expected of each student: This information is also in my disclosure statement which can be viewed by clicking the links.
- On-time maximum attendance. You won't learn if you don't show up to class. It also means being in the classroom, ready to work when the tardy bell rings. The tardy bell signals the beginning of class time not a continuation of passing period.
- Courtesy at all times. Show respect for your fellow students, teachers and for my classroom, personal and public property. You should leave the room cleaner and neater than when you entered.
- Taking responsibility for your own learning. This means coming to class with prepared appropriate materials such as your science folder, school planner and a pen or pencil.
- Please use only a pencil, black or blue pen for assignments in this class. The hot pink and other wild colours are for art classes or when I score papers!
I want every student to have success this year in your classes, develop new lifetime skills and have experiences to remember this year and every year. If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me.
Barry Bolduc
Custodian of Entropy (look it up)
Something for Monday May 4
After this, science would never be the same
It's nearly impossible to underestimate the significance of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev's discovery in 1869 -- the periodic table of elements, wrote Don Lincoln.
Which is why it's no surprise that UNESCO has designated this year, 2019, as the 150th commemoration of the chart, which now has over 100 elements.
And lest you doubt the significance of the periodic table, Lincoln said, remember that it helps "explain everything that is familiar about the world. They explain water and rock and people. They explain how the air we breathe oxygenates our lungs. They explain how fires burn and why diamonds are what they are."
So, a salute to Mendeleev!
It's nearly impossible to underestimate the significance of Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev's discovery in 1869 -- the periodic table of elements, wrote Don Lincoln.
Which is why it's no surprise that UNESCO has designated this year, 2019, as the 150th commemoration of the chart, which now has over 100 elements.
And lest you doubt the significance of the periodic table, Lincoln said, remember that it helps "explain everything that is familiar about the world. They explain water and rock and people. They explain how the air we breathe oxygenates our lungs. They explain how fires burn and why diamonds are what they are."
So, a salute to Mendeleev!
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The great thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Sir Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British Naturalist |
In science class, we learn how to think,
not what to think.
not what to think.
* Nullius in verba (Latin for "on the word of no one" or "Take nobody's word for it") is the motto of the Royal Society, an organization of scientists based in London, England. John Evelyn and other Royal Society fellows chose the motto soon after the founding of the Society in 1663.[1] The current Royal Society website explains the motto thus:
It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.[2] From Wikipedia.
In other words, don't just take someone else's word for anything. Explore and find out for yourself!
NEVER STOP EXPLORING!
Baseball is life-the rest is just details