Saturday, July 11, 2009

Inquiry Starters from WVIZ, Cleveland

Here's a link to a video series put together by WVIZ Ideastream, titled "PSI: Physical Science Investigations".

Each video comes in multiple segments, with corresponding background info, data sheets, and T-Charts for making predictions and variable analysis.

Definitely worth a look, especially in the context of instigating inquiry within student learning experiences:

PSI: Physical Science Investigations

Some of these I'm sure you've demoed in your ooms, as I did mine while teaching science. Performing a live demo of these segments would surely have more instructional impact, where possible.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

PBL Science








Do we want our science to look something like this? This educator's past experiences and deep content knowledge make it realistic to pull this off. Many teachers do not have these types of experiences. For those that don't, how could outside expertise be used to help educators pull this off?