Science

Instructor - Rhonda Ewing

Overview
The course is designed to engage students in science, and this entails a very “hands on” experience. The course outline is downloadable below:

Science course outline for 2007-2008

Materials
1) Mrs. Ewing will provide students with a notebook for provided course materials

2) Material World: A Global Family Portrait - by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann, Paul Kennedy.  Amazon.com editorial review: “In honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family in 1994, 16 of the world's leading photographers created a visual portrait of life in 30 nations. Material World tackles its wide subject by zooming in, allowing one household to represent an entire nation. Photographers spent one week living with a "statistically average" family in each country, learning about their work, their attitudes toward their possessions, and their hopes for the future. Then a "big picture" shot of the family was taken outside the dwelling, surrounded by all their (many or few) material goods. The book provides sidebars offering statistics and a brief history for each country, as well as personal notes from the photographers about their experiences. Material World is a lesson in economics and geography, reminding us of the world's inequities, but also of humanity's common threads. An engrossing, enlightening book."

In-Class Activities & Homework

A daily recap for the course and homework assignments are available by selecting the week from the daily journal.

Other Resources

Google Scholar (for searches of more academic-minded resources)

"MAD" project - article review template

"MAD" project - technical writing assignment proposal

"MAD" project - notes and rubric (from 12/07)

Cogito: Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth in Math & Science

Phun - 2D Physics Sandbox (must download from here)

I Know That (puzzles and thinking games for all disciplines)

Riverventure (the story of South Carolina through her rivers)

Lowcountry Environmental Education Programs