Sat, Oct 17, 2020 11:31 AM in Remote learning resources & advice
Hi Melissa! I am also a future teaching finishing up my ELED degree. Throughout my clinical observations I came across this really neat website called Pear Deck. It is an "add-on" in google slides that allows you to make your power point interactive! This will really help with keeping students engaged and will allow you to see who is paying attention and who is not. You can use Pear Dec...
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Sat, Mar 21, 2020 11:02 AM in Modeling a Remote Teaching Lesson on the Nature of Science (NOS) and the definition of a PLANET
Yianet,
I really like what you said about the song. I also thing that songs like those are limiting the students because they are not able to memorize all of the planets. What good is it to memorize a song about the planets if you are not going to memorize them all? What makes the nine that we memorize so special? These are just two questions that may come up if we still teach the students thi...
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Sat, Mar 21, 2020 10:02 AM in Modeling a Remote Teaching Lesson on the Nature of Science (NOS) and the definition of a PLANET
How is that cutesy song/ mnemonic we learned (and then relearned with only 8 planets) limiting/stifling our students’ understanding about the number of planets in our solar system? Having a little tune to teach students the order of the planets does not rally help them learn any content about the planets. A memorization tech...
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