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EXTRA CREDIT MEMO
Released: 1/19/2010
WHO: Extra Credit
WHAT:
1. Extra Credit can be used to replace a Missing Assignment when the original
assignment is not available anymore.
2. Extra Credit can be used to turn a Lower Score to a score of 3 or 4.
WHY?
1. Students practice, memorize and learn.
2. Students create a product showing they understand what they learned
Learning includes investigation or research about a subject and then creating a product
showing understanding of that information. See ‘Blooms Taxonomy”.
HOW?
1. Extra Credit requires the same amount of time put into it as regular assignments.
2. Use Writing Process & Proofread.
Subject Work Time Given in Class
Language Arts: Reading/Writing Assignment: 75 minutes a day
(History, Science or Social studies)
PowerPoint or Discussion Notes: 30-45 minutes
Math Assignments: 60-90 minutes
WHERE/ WHEN: Completed at Home after all Daily Assignments are completed.
List of Ideas Generated by Students & Teacher
Language Arts: (Should be based around topic we’re currently studying)
1. Research Reports & Bibliography.
2. Write an Article about it.
3. Write a time-line of events/people/places.
4. Create a Glossary (Vocabulary Page) of terms/places/people and define them.
5. Create a poster and label it – not messy!
6. Complete an unassigned “We the People Lesson”
7. Complete a Book Review – see guideline sheet - get it from class. Type it.
8. Create a Commercial Script
9. Create a Play Script
10. Create an Advertisement or Persuasive Article or Essay
11. Create a Video Script
Science:
1. Research Reports & Bibliography
2. Diagrams with labels – not messy
3. Experiments with Write-ups – use steps in the scientific method
4. Models
Math:
1. Complete a Saxon Lesson – Complete Practice Set & Mixed Practice – Student must
self-correct.
Social Studies Fields
History
Society/Sociology
Past/Archaeology
Culture of Man/Anthropology
Places/Geology
Fields of Science
Plants/Botany
Life/Biology
Bodies/Anatomy
Oceanography
Marine Biology
Force/Motion
Rocks & Minerals
Fossils/Paleontology
Earth/Geology
Space/Astronomy
Robotics
Zoology
Animal Husbandry
Brain/Neurobiology
Germs/Microbiology
Genetics
Ecology
EXTRA CREDIT MEMO
Released: 1/19/2010
WHO: Extra Credit
WHAT:
1. Extra Credit can be used to replace a Missing Assignment when the original
assignment is not available anymore.
2. Extra Credit can be used to turn a Lower Score to a score of 3 or 4.
WHY?
1. Students practice, memorize and learn.
2. Students create a product showing they understand what they learned
Learning includes investigation or research about a subject and then creating a product
showing understanding of that information. See ‘Blooms Taxonomy”.
HOW?
1. Extra Credit requires the same amount of time put into it as regular assignments.
2. Use Writing Process & Proofread.
Subject Work Time Given in Class
Language Arts: Reading/Writing Assignment: 75 minutes a day
(History, Science or Social studies)
PowerPoint or Discussion Notes: 30-45 minutes
Math Assignments: 60-90 minutes
WHERE/ WHEN: Completed at Home after all Daily Assignments are completed.
List of Ideas Generated by Students & Teacher
Language Arts: (Should be based around topic we’re currently studying)
1. Research Reports & Bibliography.
2. Write an Article about it.
3. Write a time-line of events/people/places.
4. Create a Glossary (Vocabulary Page) of terms/places/people and define them.
5. Create a poster and label it – not messy!
6. Complete an unassigned “We the People Lesson”
7. Complete a Book Review – see guideline sheet - get it from class. Type it.
8. Create a Commercial Script
9. Create a Play Script
10. Create an Advertisement or Persuasive Article or Essay
11. Create a Video Script
Science:
1. Research Reports & Bibliography
2. Diagrams with labels – not messy
3. Experiments with Write-ups – use steps in the scientific method
4. Models
Math:
1. Complete a Saxon Lesson – Complete Practice Set & Mixed Practice – Student must
self-correct.
Social Studies Fields
History
Society/Sociology
Past/Archaeology
Culture of Man/Anthropology
Places/Geology
Fields of Science
Plants/Botany
Life/Biology
Bodies/Anatomy
Oceanography
Marine Biology
Force/Motion
Rocks & Minerals
Fossils/Paleontology
Earth/Geology
Space/Astronomy
Robotics
Zoology
Animal Husbandry
Brain/Neurobiology
Germs/Microbiology
Genetics
Ecology