by Susie Kang | Mar 28, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Science
A large portion of the spring semester in my neuroscience class is spent working on the PBAT (Performance Based Assessment Task), which takes the place of the Regents exams at our school. For the science PBAT, students choose an investigative question and design an...
by Susie Kang | Jan 21, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authentic Audience, Science, Solutions
In my first blog post, I wrote about my desire to form student experts in neuroscience who would be able to create some kind of meaningful product for a wider audience. Instead of completing a project just for me as the teacher, and for their grade, I wanted students...
by Susie Kang | Sep 28, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Authentic Audience, Science
This is my 4th time teaching neuroscience, a curriculum I love teaching for a few reasons. First, most students have not taken any form of neuroscience before, so all the information feels “new” and fresh to them. Second, while they may not have a lot of...
