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See new email address...go to 'Contact Me'.
This site provides science fair project instruction and links to over 300 "kid friendly"
science sites (do not miss the crazy scientist link in the middle of this page). Find good, safe science
information that really is entertaining education! Use navigation bar at top of page for easy access to
all sections!
- My HOME page highlights the most important locations on my
site.
- The HOMEWORK page contains a weekly news
letter for parents and the weekly overview of homework for students.
- The PROJECTS/LINKS page are sites often used in the classroom.
My classroom uses technology to help my students explore the world, challenge themselves,
improve their learning and have fun! We want to produce engaged citizens, the future's innovators, and tomorrow's leaders.
Our hands-on, minds-on child centered science
lab typically focuses on developing a few ideas by making connections between ideas and evidence through an inquiry-oriented,
inductive approach in which data is collected and interpreted to build up to a main idea or conclusion. Emphasis
is placed on building scientific literacy and using a scientific method to write/communicate ideas in our 5-8th grade classrooms.
Students learn the method in incremental steps in our K-4 classrooms. Our annual K-8 Science Fair celebrates our
students' own investigations!
A Science blog has been created for students!
Send me your email address to be invited to post! Read it below:
Click here to go to our Science Blog!
Click on some of our science links
and activiites below!
Click on the CRAZY SCIENTIST below to
find more than 300 links divided into the
LIFE sciences, PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL sciences,
and the EARTH sciences!
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| Life, Physical, Chemical, Earth, Oceanography, & Astronomy LINKS here! |
| MORE Approved Science Sites from NSTA! |
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| National Science Teachers Association |
| Want to do Science Fair Projects!? Learn how here! |
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| Do your own investigations! |
| Use the Scientific Method! |
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| Click sun to learn how! Clipart form Discovery School.com |
More links? Click HERE to go to Teachers' Domain!
What's up? Get the
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
Mrs. Paluso will teach at St. James Academy in Solana Beach this fall.
The bitter...it was sad to be leaving CHA after 4 years. I hope science continues to be part of their everyday lives. I
will miss you all. Keep in touch!
The sweet...I am excited to meet new students and families at Saint James. I look forward to continuing their great science
program and adding my own twist!
If in Solana Beach, turn right instead of left to the Delmar Fair grounds and my new academy is just a couple of blocks
away!
CHA hosted an Adult Education evening. Did you miss it? Mrs. Paluso taught Global Warming. Read about the issue below:
IT-E3 Tools:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY from UCSD - ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TOOLS
Mrs. Paluso collaborated with other San Diego County teachers in a new environmental science initiative at UCSD Jacobs
School of Engineering (incorporating sensors, IT, and an online multi-player game) to be taught at SJA this year. Read more
at link below:
Watch IT-E3 Tools video with Mrs. P and learn more here!
Pompeii was at San Diego Natural History Museum!
Pompeii was at the SDNHM! Mrs. Paluso is an instructor
for the San Diego Natural History Museum and there for the Pompeii exhibit. Mrs. Paluso also taught the science behind the
Dead Sea Scrolls. Learn more about Pompeii and the scrolls at the links below:
Click here for more on Pompeii at the SDNHM!
Watch Video about Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at San Diego Natural History Museum.
| We are a Project ASTRO School! |
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Project ASTRO
Project ASTRO astronomer
Kent Richardson will come with me to Saint James Academy! He visited CHA last November 8, bringing his telescope so everyone
at school could view the Mercury Transit. See it yourself: http://www.exploratorium.edu/transit/
We are also very thankful to Mr.
Richardson, who is a docent at Palomar Observatory, for arranging a trip to the Observatory for middle school students.
Read more about it:
We are very lucky! Mr. Richardson
and I are trained by Project ASTRO but he has brought us so much more!
Disney 2006 Teacher Awards
Paluso, Evasick, & Weber Nominated!
Not just one but three Chabad teachers were nominated for the Disney Awards
which honor creativity in teaching that has had an impact on the school community. Disney seeks to honor teachers
who find creative ways to stimulate curiosity, engage the imagination and pass the joy of learning on to each and everyone
of their students.
California Science Teacher of the Year 2005 Semifinalist
Chabad teacher and science department chair Pat Paluso won semifinalist status as top science teacher at the 54th California
Science Fair Awards held in May 2005 in Los Angeles. Rina Szwarc See Awards Link.
| Find a periodical: Science Magazines & News here |
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What's the Science Buzz? Click here for news everyday!
Still
searching? Engines and sites to help below!
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| Kids search the net for science here! |
| Librarian's Internet Search |
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| Looking for sites for Pre-school? K-8, Adults? |
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| Selected Sites divided by age. |
| Homework Link for Middle School Science |
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| When was that due? |
| 6th-8th Get Lab Rubric |
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| Grade Yourself.......Middle School! |
Important Lab Rubrics
here!
| 5th Grade Lab Rubric |
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| Grade Yourself! |
Click here for Metric Games and Practice!
| Links to some of Mrs. Paluso's Lessons |
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| It's a Greeley connection! |
| Link to Games & Fun! |
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Scientists are often artists! Paluso studied both. Click here to see the Smithsonian's "Scientists & Artists Book"!
| The Glomar Challenger drilled deep sea cores. |
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| Mrs. Paluso traveled worldwide while onboard. What happened there? |
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