Tests

Tests are usually announced 3 or more days in advance of the test date.  Please check your planner, classroom board, and classroom website.

 

RETESTING:  Anyone may retest IF they meet the following criteria-- 

1.  Did not cheat on the original test.

2.  Must complete tutoring/retesting assignment by deadline.  The assignment is to be completed and turned in the day before the retest is given. 

3.  Students must retest within 10 days of the original test.  

4. Refusal to take the original test will automatically disqualify the student for retesting. 

5. The retest will be a different style test covering the same material. The higher test grade will be recorded.

6. Please make arrangements with your teacher for reteaching/retesting days and times.

 

Tutoring/Reteaching/Retesting Times:

 

After School Schedule

3:00-3:40

Tuesdays and Thursdays

 

 

Cheating: If a student is caught giving or receiving answers on any science material including but not limited to a test, the student will be given a zero.

IF a student is absent on test day or has been absent for the unit,

 the student may receive an alternate test that covers the same material.

 

Date

 Title Topics
TERM 3   ***There will always be review questions from previous units.
1/11 Weather Test 1 instruments, technology, forecasting, reading weather maps
1/13 Weather Test 2 tilt, seasons, winds, hurricanes
1/24 Cycles in Nature water cycle, carbon-oxygen cycle, nitrogen cycle, photosynthesis, cellular respiration, renewable/nonrenewable resources, natural products; pollution, deforestation, global warming, greenhouse effect,
2/3 Ecology food webs/pyramids, limiting factors, carrying capacity, habitats (ways that disasters and humans impact the habitat/ecosystem); invasive species, pollution; deforestation, environmental issues; symbiosis, commensalism, mutualism, parasitism