Showing posts with label techniques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label techniques. Show all posts
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Let's learn the Periodic Table
Here it is the nice video and song that my students have created to remember the first 10 elements of the periodic table!!!
Friday, August 29, 2014
The Metric System
The metric system is not probably a difficult concept but we tend to do it really boring. Why don't we make a connection with real life situations? A nice project should be to find three pictures of objects of different dimensions and put them in order in the classroom.
You can take some of this pictures from the website:
http://htwins.net/scale2/
Students love to make connections and touch things!!!!
Make your class a microscope or a telescope!!!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
the quadratic formula
We all know… the quadratic formula is hard to memorize.
But there is a tale that can help you to memorize it:
"Once upon a time… a negative (-) boy who couldn't decide (+ -) whether to go to a radical party. The boy was squared so he missed out (-) on 4 awesome chicks. The party was over at 2 a.m."
Try that with your students… and also have a look to this funny video:
What do you think of this lesson?
But there is a tale that can help you to memorize it:
"Once upon a time… a negative (-) boy who couldn't decide (+ -) whether to go to a radical party. The boy was squared so he missed out (-) on 4 awesome chicks. The party was over at 2 a.m."
Try that with your students… and also have a look to this funny video:
What do you think of this lesson?
Friday, February 28, 2014
The art of questioning
I know… There is nothing new. Plato used the "Maieutics" long time ago. The method seems really basic, just keep asking questions until the students discover by their own answer the knowledge. It could see also old fashion, but it works!!!!
After attending a Professional Development I started to apply this technique. Your first impulse is going to be to grab the pencil of the students and scream: "I will do it, it is so easy, just add those two terms and you will get the answer…" However, if you cool your jets, if you achieve to be patient enough… and you have the ability to ask the right question you will be really surprise.
It is not easy to come up with the right question. When a student says "x+x is equal x or 1 or 0 or I don't know". You shouldn't ask: "Are you sure it is not just 2x?". You need to develop the ability to keep asking question kind of: "Ok, so how much is 2 + 2?" "and 3 + 3?" "Could you express that just in general?" What's the meaning of the x?"
You also discover where your student got lost, what misconception he or she had… and you can treat the problem from the root!!!
I know, it takes time and we don't have time…
But What's the real purpose of Education?
After attending a Professional Development I started to apply this technique. Your first impulse is going to be to grab the pencil of the students and scream: "I will do it, it is so easy, just add those two terms and you will get the answer…" However, if you cool your jets, if you achieve to be patient enough… and you have the ability to ask the right question you will be really surprise.
It is not easy to come up with the right question. When a student says "x+x is equal x or 1 or 0 or I don't know". You shouldn't ask: "Are you sure it is not just 2x?". You need to develop the ability to keep asking question kind of: "Ok, so how much is 2 + 2?" "and 3 + 3?" "Could you express that just in general?" What's the meaning of the x?"
You also discover where your student got lost, what misconception he or she had… and you can treat the problem from the root!!!
I know, it takes time and we don't have time…
But What's the real purpose of Education?
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