by Rosa Moshi | Mar 24, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Science, Uncategorized
I’m teaching the same microbiology class as last semester. Last semester, I worked on designing my second unit project in a way that would make it personally authentic for students. This semester, I want to revise my third unit project. In the third unit, students...
by Rosa Moshi | Jan 14, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Science, Solutions
In my first blog post, I wrote about how students design and carry out controlled experiments during the second unit of my microbiology class. As my problem of practice, I wanted my students to design experiments that they felt personally invested in. I asked- how...
by Rosa Moshi | Oct 17, 2018 | 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Science
Microbiology is a course I designed 2 years ago that introduces students to the microbes that we all share our lives with. With more of the cells on your body belonging to microbes than to you, these tiny living things have a huge impact on our health that scientists...
