Departments of Berlin High School

This is a review game for chapter four in accelerated chemistry about atomic theory.

  AttachmentSize Invitation-Veterans Day Program 2010.pdf1.11 MB

Period 7 HW for 11/3/10

-This is a review game for Chapter 7 Sections 1 & 2. 
-The questions are student authored so please excuse any silliness.
-It is meant to be a multi-team review.
-If you are reviewing by yourself it will still work- you can color code the correct answers one way and the incorrect answers another way.
-Essentially this is a flashcard game.
-The way the game works is that there are a number of questions put on the board. 
-You click on each letter and then a question is generated. 
-The answer to the question starts with the same letter that you clicked on.
-If you aren't sure what the answer is press the answer button.
-When you've finished reviewing the whole board click new game and a new board of randomly chosen words will be generated for you to quiz yourself.

Ecology Ecosystems

November 2010 Lunch Menus
AttachmentSize BHS November 2010.pdf131.29 KB McGee November 2010.pdf132.66 KB Hubbard November 2010.pdf136.05 KB Griswold November 2010.pdf134.98 KB Willard November 2010.pdf134.83 KB

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TO:                  The Herald  (Fax 860-223-8171)

                        Hartford Courant  (Fax 860-343-5220)

                         Berlin Citizen  (Fax 860-829-5733)

 

FROM:            David B. Erwin

                        Superintendent of Schools

 

DATE:            October 22, 2010

 

 

Berlin Public Schools Embark on Instructional Rounds

 

A group of teachers, all building administrators and central office administrators have been in training since the start of the school year to prepare to begin the process of instructional rounds in each of our five schools.

 

“The rounds process is an adaptation and extension of the medical rounds model, which is used routinely in medical schools and teaching hospitals to develop the diagnostic and treatment practice of physicians… In the most commonly used versions, groups of medical interns, residents, and supervising or attending physicians visit patients, observe and discuss the evidence for diagnoses, and, after a thorough analysis of the evidence, discuss possible treatments.  The medical rounds process is the major way in which physicians develop their knowledge of practice and, more importantly, the major way in which the profession builds and propagates its norms of practice.  The rounds model embodies a specific set of ideas about how practitioners work together to solve common problems and to improve their practice.  In the education context, we call this practice instructional rounds, or rounds for short.” – excerpted from Instructional Rounds in Education:  A Network Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning by Elizabeth A. City, Richard F. Elmore, Sarah E. Fiarman, and Lee Teitel with a foreword by Andrew Lachman

 

The rounds will focus on classroom instruction.  We will look at the instructional tasks when we visit classrooms; and we are not in rooms to pass judgment on teachers.  Our goal is to enhance educational experiences for our students and

target areas that we want to improve.  As a result of the visit, the data we gather will pave the way for change or as it is referred to in the process, “the next level of work.”

 

The Center for School Change is leading the process in Connecticut with the Superintendents’ Network.  Two cohorts of superintendents exist in Connecticut and Berlin Superintendent of Schools David B. Erwin has been a member of one of the cohorts since 2005.  The Executive Director of the Center Andrew Lachman and Education Program Officer Steve Wlodarczyk lead the work in Connecticut.  The cohorts are supported by Dr. Richard F. Elmore and Dr. Lee Teitel, both professors from Harvard.

 

Lessons will be observed by small subgroups of individuals for up to a fifteen-minute segment followed by another group, and by the time the process concludes the class should have been seen in its entirety.  At the conclusion of the visits, the debriefing and analysis begins and discussion regarding the next level of work begins.  It is vital to system growth to have teachers included in the process and they are excited to be a part of the group.

 

Laura Boutelier, from the Connecticut Center for School Change, has been our trainer in Berlin and, in addition to working with our internal team, she will be presenting an overview of the instructional rounds process to the Berlin Board of Education at their retreat scheduled for Saturday, October 30.

 

The process of visiting schools begins on Tuesday, October 26, at Griswold School.  If anyone has questions or would like to learn more about the process, please feel free to contact your child’s principal or the superintendent of schools’ office at 860-828-6581.

www.johnkyrk.com/evolution.html

Accelerated Biology Organic Molecules Concept Map

Website 1:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2715&q=324930

Website 2:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/site_clean_up/sites/sites_a-f.pdf

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BUILDING ATOMS AND ISOTOPES

 

http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/atom.swf

 

1. 31H

2. 94Be 2+

3. 2010 Ne

4.3517Cl –

5. 3919 K +

 

1. Which of the above are cations?  Which are anions?  Which are neutral atoms?

 

 

2. What is the relationship between mass number and atomic number?  Is this relationship the same for small atoms as it is for larger atoms?

 

 

3. Why does 3919 K + have a positive charge?  Why does 3517Cl–  have a negative charge?

 

Evolution

Green Cleaning Program
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 The Earth Science classes at BHS created solar cookers as part of a class project.  Here are some photos of their creations in action:

                                

                 

         

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http://www.packagingtoday.com

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/wasteman/wm0002.htm

http://www.americanchemistry.com/
then click on PLASTICS on the top bar
then click on PACKAGING AND CONSUMER PRODUCTS on the left bar

http://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/plasticsarticle.html

Animals update

Chemistry Precision and Measurement HW  (there is a pdf version and an MS word version)

Animal Diversity

Here are some links to use when researching your Solar Cooker design:






http://www.solarnow.org/pizzabx.htm

http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/solarcookers.html

http://www.solarcooking.org/plans/

http://go.hrw.com/resources/go_mk/sc/schst/HSTEAT21.PDF

http://ed.fnal.gov/ntep/f98/projects/nrel_energy_2/solarovens.html

 Please look around the resources that are available online at the Science Dept. Website for You.  There is the AP Homework page and the Accelerated Physics Worksheet page, and a great page of Physics Simulations that will help you to understand some of the concepts we will cover this year.  Information about our Six Flags Trip and Finals and Mid-Year study guides.