Handouts are available below Big Idea Can students look at a graph and understand what’s going on? I explain to kids that this is an important skill to have because graphs aren’t just the boring ones we see in textbooks with the x and y axis. Graphs have become more visual, more sophisticated, especially…
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Handouts are available below Big Idea Looking for a high impact but low set up activity on sound? Here’s something I’ve done with all my students last year – from Grade 8 to 12 – that had all of them curious (even the ones who are too cool to care about school). I’ve done…
Handouts are available below Big Idea I’m focusing more on using STEAM (that’s Science, Tech, Engineering, Art, and Math) with my classes this half of the year. And, here’s an assignment I did with my Grade 8 students recently where they had fun using STEAM to learn the characteristics of living things and predator/prey…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Here’s a bellringer or ice breaker and takes between 5 and 15 minutes while getting 3 tasks done: gets people talking, gets people to formulate an argument, and gets people to consider bias. So, whether this is something you want to do on the 1st day after a…
Handouts are available below Big Idea What’s the best pro-d you had in 2022? Today, I want to share the best pro-d I’ve had this year regarding assessment – specifically, standards based assessment. And, this was all done without hiring an expert or speaker or quietly sitting through another workshop. However, you will need…
Handouts are available below Big Idea How do you assess work habits? It sounds like a simple thing to do – we think we know good work habits when we see it – but what does it look like? Today, I’m sharing some things my colleagues have shared on how I can improve assessing…
Handouts are available below Big Idea In my last post, I spoke about how I’m using Standards Based Assessment (or SBA) with my classes. Thanks to Kirstin Laird-Osterhout on Facebook, who posted “Thanks! Any tips for a district that still uses letter grades and percentages?” Today, I’m sharing how I’m using SBA with my…
Handouts are available below Big Idea I’ve been doing standards based assessment – also known as standards based grading – with my classes for the past 4 years. Today, I want to share a few things I’ve learned in doing Standards Based Assessment (or SBA, for short). Long story short, SBA has changed my practice…
Handouts are available below Big Idea Here’s another lab I’ve done with my students for the past few years that not only has them practice a useful lab skill – in this case, finding volume using water displacement – it also gets students to practice CER, which stands for Claim Evidence and Reasoning. This…
Handouts are available below Big Idea A great question will get students to connect and apply science in creative ways. I get a lot of positive feedback on my test questions, and since many teachers are having difficulty finding good extended response questions to use, in this post, I’m sharing 4 types of extended…
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