Amazon Packaging Play TIME!
POP: How might I engage students in authentic real-world projects while balancing content and skills? Displayed package designs - left side Maximizes Volume and right side Minimizes Volume Background: My original POP focused on the balance between acquisition of...
The MTA got me in my feelings!
Our students (and staff!) have so many feelings about the MTA, mostly disappointment and frustration. At the start of this semester, I wondered how I could create the final project for my Calculus to allow for them to: Share their personal lived experiences Personally...
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Soil Science Students Save the World!
I've taught "Sucio" (Spanish for dirty) countless times. The 9/10 earth science course focuses on the content of soil while emphasizing skills around the scientific method. The course is divided into 3 units. The first focuses on soil types and properties of soil and...
Taking Pride in the Science PBAT
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...
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Amazon Packaging Project
Background: I was recently inspired to restructure my Final Geometry project based on a conversation I had with a Project Based Learning professor from University of Pennsylvania. I mentioned to Wallace during my midyear meetings that I wished my projects were more...
But what’s that got to do with me?
Last semester, I wanted my PreCalculus students to have the opportunity do what mathematicians do. I wanted to embed opportunities for my students to do authentically engage in the core practices of the discipline of mathematics, specifically for them to ask and...
Applying Lessons from a Science Classroom to the Curricular Design of a Literary Analysis Course
TO ALL MY diehard fans, I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the major success I felt with my attempt to slay the proverbial beast that was my problem of practice. In my first blog post, I focused on the design of my Fall 2018 curriculum, in which "I sought to blend...
HOW TO CREATE AUTHENTIC LITERARY ANALYSIS WITH VOICE AND CHOICE!
An experiment in varied written assessment. I used to (and still do) believe that the repetition of writing structures is crucial in a student's ability to improve and and internalize organized literary analysis. I often assign the same structured essay three to four...