Bubbles in the bathtub is a quick, easy, and anonymous way to …
Bubbles in the bathtub is a quick, easy, and anonymous way to find out what all students are thinking. You can use this activity for predictions, reflections, brainstorming ideas for future investigations, exit tickets, and more.
In Round 1, students learn to allocate their "20 bean salary" according …
In Round 1, students learn to allocate their "20 bean salary" according to which options they want to spend their beans on. Round 2 forces the students to reduce their salary to 13 beans and make decisions about where they should make their "cuts". Round 3 includes some "life happens" challenges that allow students to make more decisions on where to move the beans in order to deal with the situations. This activity completes with some reflection questions on how this activity relates to budgeting with real income.
Different and varied perspectives leads to richer science and better inquiry. This …
Different and varied perspectives leads to richer science and better inquiry. This activity helps provide varied ways for learners to express questions, ideas, and understanding. As a result, it provides opportunities for all students, including those reticent to speak in whole-group settings, to share insights and inform class thinking.Created as part of the OASIS Coaching Support research study at CAST.
Classroom practice has shown that this "Graffiti Wall" is a highly effective …
Classroom practice has shown that this "Graffiti Wall" is a highly effective strategy that encourages multiple voices, and helps ideas to spread across groups of students and classes.
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when …
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when …
What are your facet values when using software? What's one situation when your facet values might change? How did identifying your facet values affect your understanding of how you use software?
An infographic can be used to display a concept graphically. For your …
An infographic can be used to display a concept graphically. For your final project, you will develop your personal and professional code of ethics. This "code" will include what you value and how you will conduct yourself in personal and professional relationships.
Your code of ethics infographic should have at least these three components:
- What does (or should) ethics mean in our society? - What does ethics mean to you? - How will you conduct yourself?
Data are simply information that is gathered. Evidence is when those data …
Data are simply information that is gathered. Evidence is when those data are used in support of an argument or claim. This activity helps students build the cognitive link between data and using that data as evidence to support a claim.Created as part of the OASIS Coaching Support research study at CAST.
Collaborative learning is influenced by the quality of interactions, both among students …
Collaborative learning is influenced by the quality of interactions, both among students and between teacher and students. Use this activity with students to co-create norms that foster a safe, welcoming, and productive environment for science inquiry learning.
In this Case Study Activity, students will take on the role of …
In this Case Study Activity, students will take on the role of a credit counselor to assist a borrower who finds himself in serious financial distress. Several options will be presented, and students will identify pros and cons of each approach and choose a path forward.
Managing debt loads can be very difficult and overwhelming at times. Hiding …
Managing debt loads can be very difficult and overwhelming at times. Hiding from debt and avoiding the problem, will only make the situation worse. This activity includes mini case studies on how to handle various debt problems so that the students can take control of their debt and move forward to a better financial future.
Effective measurement techniques include the concept of measurement uncertainty. Students may make …
Effective measurement techniques include the concept of measurement uncertainty. Students may make erroneous conclusions analyzing data using measurements that do not include the uncertainty of the measurement. In this lab, students determine a density range for a metal and identify the material based on this range.
This is an activity to illustrate several categories of nonverbal communication, including …
This is an activity to illustrate several categories of nonverbal communication, including eye contact, body orientation, territoriality, vocalics/paralanguage, touch, and chronemics.
Teachers consistently point out that students have difficulty differentiating opinion from data. …
Teachers consistently point out that students have difficulty differentiating opinion from data. This guided activity uses small group work and whole group conversation, guided by teachers, to build student skills in identifying the differences.Created as part of the OASIS Coaching Support research study at CAST.
This is a lab activity that allows students to collect data to …
This is a lab activity that allows students to collect data to practice using effective measurement. While other authors have produced similar labs, this version includes uncertainty analysis consistent with effective measurement technique as presented in the module Measurement and Uncertainty.
Reflective writing is be a valuable communication tool between instructor and student …
Reflective writing is be a valuable communication tool between instructor and student that fosters critical thinking. When combined with a better model of the scientific method (the AMI) than the "standard" linear model, learners gain a better understanding of the process of science.
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