Interactive Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Grant Proposal for Interactive Interdisciplinary Inquiry Institute
Submitted by Babtunde A Oronti on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 9:58pm.Specific Aim / Goal: A few sentences on the educational goal/outcome for my students.
First of all my students are highly visual. They respond better to learning materials presented to them on the LCD projector, documentary on TV and short presentations in form of skits. With this in mind my main aim is to depend less on the use of textbooks, tests and other printed materials and move towards performance based learning and assessment.
In addition, I intend to use audio equipments like CD players so that they can record lectures which they can listen to at their own time and also for playing back pre-recorded textbook information that come with core subject textbooks.
Award for K-2 inquiry science ed
Submitted by bronstein on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 5:01pm.There are some of you who will be interested in applying for this award . . . and some of you will truly deserve it!
Guidelines Now Available for the Zula International–NSTA Early Science Educator Award
Post Mini-Grants Here.
Please submit in the comment section below your mini-grant addressing these three areas.
Thanks.
Specific Aim / Goal: A few sentences on the educational goal / outcome for your students and you made possible by equipment/supplies puchased with mini-grant.
Proposal: Brief description of how you plan to use the equipment in your classroom to reach your educational goal.
Equipment: Description of the equipment you plan to purchase.
Our Papermaking Activity
Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 9:21pm.Our Papermaking Activity
Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 3:01pm.
I believe that Wil's Papermaking Activity would fit in very well with my elementary school students. Actually, teachers could create a unit that incorporates several subjects (such as science, reading, writing, social studies, and math) so that we'd be teaching across the curriculum.
Making Paper: A Hook for Plant related Topics?
What is paper made of?
Let's Make Paper!
Paper Making;
Dna, Heredity and Mutation
Submitted by Babtunde A Oronti on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 9:42am.TOPIC: DNA, INHERITABLE CHARACTERS AND MUTATION
OBJECTIVES:
Physiology Exercises
Physiology is often presented as if 'everything' is already known about the subject. Students then feel that they just have to 'know' the parts and their interactions to understand physiology. Is there still room for inquiry in physiology?
What is physiology?
Why study it?
Some interesting hands-on activities by Ingrid Waldron
Regulation of Human Heart Rate
baroreflex
dive reflex
Breathing and Holding Your Breadth
American Physiological Society: K-12 education resources
Similarities and Differences
Great work so far. By Friday it was more clear to me how inquiry is common to all human understanding/exploration/generation of meaning. Each domain can be characterized by a process of inquiry that continues to give birth to revised and novel stories, some about ourselves, our emotions our hopes and fears, some about the external material world that we live in as well as stories about our emotions, hopes and fears. Many comments to this effect in the online forum as well.
But what about the differences between the Humanities and the Sciences.
Judith's Watershed Presentation
Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 7:41pm.
Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 2:04pm.
It was refreshing to hear about the environmental learning that goes on inside (and outside) Judith Odom's classes in Chester High School. My co-worker, Tola Oronti & I have covered some of the basic concepts that Judith offered her 8th graders in our SDP Land & Water unit. Our students & I were especially enthusiastic about working in cooperative groups. We have a spiraling curriculum and students can build on their learning more and more each year.
