Physics, Chemistry, Physical Science, and General Science Guidelines
1. Respect yourself and others.
1. Respect yourself and others.
- Accept individual differences.
- Talk directly with the person, not about the person, if there is a problem.
- Respect each person's right to learn.
- Match speaking to the situation, do not visit during roll call and lunch count. Raise your hand to speak during lectures. While working together and during discussions, make sure that you are speaking about physics, chemistry, physical science, or general science.
- Chrome books should have their lids down when the bell rings. Phones should be put away when the bell rings. Students are not to use Chrome books or phones during class unless told to by the teacher.
- Near the end of class, if a student is working independently on an assignment and finishes early, he or she should read a book, study, or work on as assignment for another class. That book, study material, or assignment might be on the Chrome book or phone. A student may also deal with school account emails. Games may NOT be played.
- Use equipment appropriately and as instructed.
- Follow lab safety procedures.
- Return equipment to the correct location, let the teacher know if anything is broken.
- Keep your science book covered at all times. Do not write in your book unless instructed to by the teacher.
- Be sitting in your seat quietly with supplies ready when the bell rings.
- Be here every day possible, participating in class provides you with the best understanding of the subject.
- If you will be gone, let me know as far in advance as possible. Have your advance make-up work ready to hand in before you leave or as soon as you come back.
- If you are unexpectedly gone, you will receive an email from me.
- When you return to class, be ready to hand in the assignment you would have handed in while you were gone. You will have one day for each day that you were absent to hand in the new work assigned during your absence.
- Assignments will be done in pencil and the work and answer corrected in ink, if needed.
- Assignments will be headed with your name, physics, chemistry, physical science, or general science number, date, and the assignment.
- On mathematical problems, all work must be shown. This usually means stating the knowns, the unknown, the equation which links them together, solving the equation for the unknown, substituting in numbers, the answer with the correct number of significant digits and its label.
- Questions must be answered in completed, well-explain sentences which do not start with a pronoun or the word because.
- Take off the rough edges on assignments.
- Give your best effort to learn. I'll give my best effort to help you learn.
- Be ready to volunteer answers, questions, explanations, examples in small and large group settings.
- Expect to be frustrated, but do not expect to stay frustrated, try again, reread your notes or your book, work with a partner, ask for help.
- I am in the physics, chemistry, physical science, general science room all eight periods. I'm usually in my room or just outside its door from 6:45 am to 4:00 pm. Secondary staff meetings are usually from 7:45 to 8:15 on Friday in the high school library. My school e-mail address is <[email protected]>. My home phone is 1-712-669-3454.
- Accept decisions of school or group.
- Deal with adverse situations in the most appropriate way.
- Change what you can control, if needed, accept what you cannot.
- Do not swear, use words like "crap" and "sucks," or use the name of a group of people as a putdown.
- Bring the required supplies (see the supply list) each day.
- You will be told on which days you will need additional supplies.
- Have your assignment completed neatly with the appropriate heading and be ready to check and then to hand in according to your physics, chemistry, physical science, or general science number when it is due.
- Note dates of upcoming projects, quizzes, and tests in your planner so you can prepare in advance. Take advantage of class reviews and suggestions for studying.
- Record assignments in your planner.