Non-Kit+Specific+Articles+for+Teacher

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**Coming Soon! [|Arizona SCITECH Festival]**
Check the Arizona SCITECH website for continuous updates - main events start in February although some continue year round.

Best Practices
[|Understanding Science] This site is a wealth of information on improving the quality of our current science lessons to include more from strands 1-3, as well as a look at common misconceptions. (Kirstin BIttel)

Classroom Management
Here are a couple examples of Safety Contracts for Middle School Classrooms. Please feel free to share your contract so that all teachers and students have the opportunity to be safe during their science lessons.

From Rebecca Lipson at Miles:

From Cheryl Dow at Carson Middle School:

General Science Online Interactives
[|Women's Adventure's in Science] This site offers games and other interactives with a goal of sparking interest in science. [|You Tube Converter] Is a great FREE website for taking YouTube videos and converting them to *.wmv files to free up bandwidth! (You get a limited number of conversions per day)

Literacy Connections
This is a general conclusion rubric developed at Mansfeld (Patrica Robles-Media and Liz Caccamise) Provides a graphic organizer for managing conclusion writing. (Kirstin Bittel and Darrek Hernandez) This article from the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literature regarding annotation of science texts. (Lisa Garbe)

AIMS Information
[|AIMS Student Guides] The science guides are located near the bottom of this page.