Thinking Hard in Science

by Alanna McRoberts,
Teacher of Science

Reduce

The major challenge of the new curriculum is the amount of information students are introduced to, so how can we get the students more involved in this?

Get them to reduce the information.

Students were given a page of information about blood and were asked to reduce it to no more than 30 words but could use as many pictures they liked.

 

That's Funny

 

Often we assess understanding be asking question on the new information given or exam questions.

Another way is to get students to think about what if and applying the information in a new way.