1. Welcome Parents!

2. Plan for Today Who am I? What will we be studying in science? What can we expect for labs? What is located on our class website? –Polices and Expectations How will we use iPads in science? What questions do you have?

3. Who is Mr. Miller?  8-Blue Science Teacher  4 th year teaching, 2 nd year at HBMS  Graduate of the Central Michigan University (2010)  Studied Middle Level Education, History, Social Studies, and Physical Science  Master’s degree in Differentiated Instruction (2014)  Hobbies and Interests: running, basketball, camping, traveling, attending/presenting at education conferences, and playing with Jake (7 months old).

6. 8 th Grade Physical Science Science Skills: Safety, Measurement, Graphing Energy Chemistry: Matter, Atoms, Elements, Reactions Engineering Physics: Motion, Force, Sound, Light

7. Textbooks Holt, Rineholt, Winston- Checked out to student. Also available on-line at http://my.hrw.comhttp://my.hrw.com Student must have username and password, available on my teacher website. Will be checked out the end of September.

8. Plan for Today Who am I? What will we be studying in science? What can we expect for labs? What is located on our class website? –Polices and Expectations How will we use iPads in science? What questions do you have?

9. Contact Information Teacher Web: http://home.d47.org/bmiller I post a weekly tentative agenda of both class work and homework Links to on-line textbook and favorite sites District e-mail: bmiller@d47.orgbmiller@d47.org.