From: suzanna loper (sloper@uclink4.berkeley.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 08 2000 - 17:27:35 PST
Message-ID: <002701c049ec$40e47f40$0cb47f0a@District.berkeley.net> From: "suzanna loper" <sloper@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Subject: Re: pinhole Middle School Curriculum Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 17:27:35 -0800
We have a full year of 6th grade science, but students have only 4 periods a
week (compared to 5 for 7th and 8th grade), so that's 80%.
Longfellow Middle School
Berkeley Unified School District
Berkeley, CA
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From: BenP <bpitt@n2.com>
To: Exploratorium Pinhole <pinhole@exploratorium.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: pinhole Middle School Curriculum
>Hello pinholers,
>
>This message is for people who are teaching in middle schools, or who know
how your district runs the middle school science program. Specifically I
want to know if your district gives the students full years of science, or
less than full years of science in the 6th, 7th or 8th grades.
>
>Our dilema is this: For several reasons we have, for many years, had a
program where our sixth grade students receive only 1/2 year of science.
(They receive full years in seventh and eighth.)
>
>We in the science department feel that a full year is important, warranted,
and necessitated by the standards, but we realize that we don't really have
data on what the general practice is.
>
>I'm asking for information on whether other schools have 1/2 years of
science in sixth grade (or 7th or 8th!). If you know your district's
practice, please let me know. I think I'll just start with the following
information:
>
>1. 6th grade: Full year or Half year
>2. 7th grade: Full year or Half year
>3. 8th grade: Full year or Half year
>4. Name and location of district
>
>Or if you have an address or contact that would have this information for
Peninsula, or Bay Area schools, I'd like to know that, too.
>
>Thanks for any information you send.
>
>Ben Pittenger
>Cunha Intermediate School
>Half Moon Bay
>bpitt@n2.com
>
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