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FOSS MIDDLE SCHOOL PROGRAM COMPONENTS
FOSS for Middle School is a general science curriculum for
students and their teachers in grades 6–8. The curriculum
is organized into topical courses in three strands: Earth
and Space Science, Life Science,
and Physical Science and Technology. Each
course is an in-depth unit requiring 9–12 weeks to teach.
This course, designed for students in grades 6–8,
includes the following five interconnected components:
- A detailed Force and Motion Teacher
Guide in a three-ring binder, including
overview, materials preparation, goals and objectives,
at-a-glance investigation chart, science background,
lesson plans, transparency masters, teacher answer
sheets, assessments with masters and scoring guides,
multimedia user guide, and references (books, multimedia,
websites). Chapters of the teacher guide are separated
by tabs for easy use. Force and Motion
has eight investigations, each with multiple parts.
- A kit of laboratory equipment packaged
for multiple classes of 32 students each. The kit
also contains class resource materials such as videos.
Each course is designed for one teacher working with
five sections of students per day. The kit includes
transparencies for the investigations.
- The FOSS Force and Motion Lab Notebook
consisting of student sheets and organizers for students
to use during the investigations. One copy of the
lab notebook is included in the kit. The lab notebook
can be a consumable item if one is purchased for each
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student. The book is produced in black and white and
the pages are perforated, so individual sheets can be
used as duplication masters, adding flexibility to your
use of the notebook.
- A FOSS Force and Motion Resources
book containing data and readings that are used throughout
the course. Thirty-two copies of the full-color resources
book come with the kit. They are intended to be used
as classroom resources, shared by all students. Additional
copies of the resources book can be purchased if it
is important for each student in every class to have
a copy.
- The FOSS Force and Motion multimedia
program is intended to be a whole-class demonstration
tool and an individual or small-group interactive
instructional tool. The multimedia is woven into the
instruction and is linked to many investigations.
The multimedia is provided on CD-ROM (five disks included
in the kit) and is available on the Web (www.fossweb.com/
forceweb).
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