Mon, Jun 10, 2013 9:31 PM in Skeletal and Muscular Systems
How about dissecting chicken wings so that students can compare human arm with the wing? Students can see muscle pairs, tendons, ligaments, cartilage and bones. They can observe all types of connective tissues and pull on different muscles to see the wing move.
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Tue, Jun 12, 2012 6:59 PM in FACTS: Formative Assessment Classroom Techniques - Let's Share!
We are reading Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan William as a whole building in the fall and we have been on the formative assessment journey for the past year. There is a lot to talk about with this topic. Who do you think benefits more the student or the teacher by collecting this information? How does it help students monitor their own learning progress? How does it help the teacher to fin...
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Tue, Jun 05, 2012 6:37 PM in Science Interactive Notebooks
To help students understand interactive notebooks we do a lot of modeling and examples at the beginning of the year. We explain the BATS are an important way for students to use the new information they are learning and help make it meaningful for them. When we connect with the bat, we hit a homerun by really understanding/applying the information. At our middle school we really think the BAT ne...
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