A Guide to SOAR-High Web Pages

Part I Learn about the Side Bar
This side bar is your road map to the SOAR-High web site.

The side bar links to important SOAR-High areas. The following table has a description of each link on the side bar.

Class Room	Resources	Students	Schedule
Units 1 to 6 The unit pages list the learning activities to help you complete a task.	Science Web Links You may sometimes need to search for information.  Use the Web Links to find information by topic and by alphabetical listing.  These links will save you time.	Portfolios A link to all SOAR-High student webpages. Read other student's projects and find their email addresses here! You will need a password to view these pages	Calendar The calendar shows vacations, holidays and other events for each participating school.
Units R.I and R.II Research I and Research II are special units. Research projects involve applying the information you have learned in the Units to ask a question, develop a hypothesis, find data, and look for results. You will communication what you find out by creating a web page showing your research and results.	Tool Room The tool room has directions for activities like writing lab reports, making web pages, etc. There are also many different kinds of calculators here	Class  Discssion Just as in a regular classroom, students benefit from exchanging ideas.  You will be given a topic and asked to contribute to the discussion at least once in each Unit.	Pictures Look at pictures from class activities. When you write a lab report, find pictures here to illustrate your procedure.
Rules and Guides Find class rules and course-related guides, for example information on taking quizes, portfolio requirements, symbol meaning, etc.	Historical Timeline The SOAR-High ESS course will start connect to events in history, starting in the 1950's in the Fall, and continuing all year into the new millennium.  The historical timeline will help you be aware of years when certain events occurred.	Deaf Scientists Learn about deaf people with careers in science and math.  Get to know some of  the many deaf and hard of hearing people who have made and are making contributions to the fields of math and science.

(Also on the SideBar : Teacher Notes - a restricted area,  for SOAR-High teachers only.)


Part II Unit Activity Guides
For each Unit there is a guide with links to activities. Here are some important parts of the Unit Guide that you should know about:
 
 

Class Room	Resources	Students	Schedule
Unit  Questions Unit questions provide an outline of what should learn in each Unit. Answer the questions as you work through the activities. Question sets must be done individually and are due at the end of the unit.  Include them in your notebook portfolio. At the end of each Unit, study the questions to prepare for a quiz.	Icon symbols  Unit Guide has symbols for specific items.   Learning the meanings of the symbols here.	Your Task for Unit 1 ... For each unit you will find a Task which tells the purpose of the activities for the unit. Read the Task before you start the unit to get an idea about what you will learn.	Today's Messages At the top of the Home page are two kinds of messages for you:   [   SOAR-High   ] 1. There is a message to all SOAR-High students.  A new message will be posted here on MONDAYS.
		[   Green Teams ] [   Blue Teams] For many activities in SOAR-High you will collaborate with a partner from another class.   Who is your partner?  Click on the Team Symbols at the top of the  Unit Guide to find who your team members are.	[  UHS   ] [   MSSD-3   } 2.  There is a class message from your teacher telling you want to do each day. Check the messages EVERY DAY before you begin to work