1. Session 16: Science Skillz
Grab your Course Workbooks!

2. Musical Chairs or Shuffle your feet?
Let’s move around!
Musical Chairs or Shuffle your feet?

3. Objectives for the day
Work on strategies for the Science section of the ACT
Build skills to work the figures, work the questions, and work the answers

4. Announcements ACT III – Jan 27th Metro Visit Days – Tues Feb 13th
4 things to bring???
ID, Calculator, pencil, ACT ticket
Metro Visit Days – Tues Feb 13th
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Summer Enrichment
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5. Science Skills Now Passages –What are we looking for?
Small tables and graphs
Mostly numbers instead of words or symbols
Easy to spot relationships or trends
Short answers – “increase” or “decrease”

6. First Rule of ACT Science:
Don’t be distracted by the Science!

7. Science Basics Approach Review
Work the figures
Start with the figures!! – Mark trends, note units
Work the questions
Look for questions with minimal words (POOD)
Work the answers
Use POE
Read (if you have to…)
There are some, but not many questions that require you to find an answer in the text

8. Types of Science Passages
Charts and Graphs
Science Basic Approach
Experiments
Fighting Scientists
Read first!!!! – do not start with the questions!

9. Brainstorm

10. Things that we like Short answers! Opposite answers Numbers!
(like “increase” or “decrease”)
A. Yes because…
Numbers!
B. Yes because…
C. No because …
Simple axes!
D. No because …
Easy to spot relationships and trends

11. Things that we don’t like
Long answers
Lots of strange words/symbols
Multiple axes
Confusing graphs

12. Workbook Book Work – turn to page 556
Read the Graph
Extend the Data
Find the Intersection
Don’t Read!...
Use POE
…Unless you have to
I DO

13. Scary Science Jeopardy

14. Science by any other name
15 minutes – let’s practice!
Remember:
Work the Figure
Work the Questions
Work the Answers
Don’t read… Unless you have to