Ransom Middle School

The science department will support all school-wide goals as well as implement the following:

• Increase student ease of transition and readiness from elementary to middle school and beyond by assisting in educating students on RMS policies and procedures. 

• Assessing prior knowledge and to assist with vertical alignment of science standards and to increase student achievement.

• Participate in cross-curricular learning such as providing science articles for ELA and social studies curriculum, using ELA writing rubrics to assess writing prompts in science, and collaborating with the math department to teach graphing and measurement skills

• Review content in prior science course-work and prepare students for the end of the year Science State-wide Assessment for 8th graders.