Life Science | Mr. Gonzalez's Classroom

Jul 09

8th Grade Year Plan

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification, Science
July 9, 2013

After planning possible 6th grade activities, I put them into the 3D GameLab (3DGL) interface ready for kids to Beta test in the fall. So far I have 73 quests in several different chains with room for some student choice. The benefit of having no grades is that kids can really pick and choose what …

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May 20

Testing is Over

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
May 20, 2013

State testing is over! My 6th graders took a Math and Language Arts test and my 8th graders took a Math, Language Arts, and Science test. The Science test, the subject that I teach, has questions on Earth, Physical and Life Science. Our curriculum, for better or for worse, includes Physical and Environmental Science in …

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Jan 29

Naturemapping Field Trip

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
January 29, 2013

We got an opportunity to go naturemapping so I volunteered our 8th graders since they’re all learning Life Science this year! An amazing AmeriCorps Volunteer, the one who taught my 8th graders last year about Rain Gardens, organized the whole trip for us! We were very fortunate indeed. We took over 70 kids on a …

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Dec 27

Fish Trapping

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
December 27, 2012

In Chimacum 8th graders get a full year of Life Science learning experiences. As 6th graders they learned about our neighborhood creek, Chimacum Creek, and tested the water quality. Learning about and taking care of our creek has been a great Science learning experience as well as a service learning project for Chimacum Middle School …

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Jul 30

Live Animals in Science

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
July 30, 2012

Live animals in Science class are great. For the past 15 years that I’ve been teaching mostly Science I’ve mainly taught Earth, Physical, and Environmental Science. Even in Environmental Science we barely worked with live animals. I did get to trap fish with students but we just caught, identified, then returned them to the creek. …