Friday, April 22, 2016

Retention : Understanding as Engagement : Active Learning

If you want learning targets to be retained over time, students must understand the concept, and the best way to do that is through engaging learning opportunities.  By planning active learning, you reach students, helping them make connections to concepts that can transcend one lesson on one day of their middle school life.

Getting ready for Tug of War
But, it's not so simple; you think one team has the clear advantage....

But, there's are traitors in their midst.

Students figure out their traitors and why a clearly favored team doesn't win as they make connections to the Vietnam War.

Weigh the ball.
Conduct the experiment.
Chart the data!
Collaborate to figure out the impact of mass on speed of an object.





No comments:

Post a Comment