Author: Vickie
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Jet Straw Lesson on Newton’s Third Law
Jet Straw Victoria Deneroff, PhD I stole this idea many years ago from the NASA website, although I have adapted it to be an engineering challenge rather than a science activity. The original appears to no longer be easily available on the web. Design Challenge Build a jet straw air engine which produces the highest…
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STEM Writing Template
The Common Core Standards call for students to engage in literacy practices across the content areas. I am providing the STEM Writing Template as a model so that students can write to learn science. The following is a workshop agenda. STEM Writing Template (Adapted from Keys et. al, (1999:1067-1069) and also Hand, Prain and Wallace…
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Georgia College 2013 Paper Bridge Building Contest
Build a Paper Bridge Engineering Design Competition, February 23, 2013 This is a STEM competition with divisions for upper elementary, middle and high school students, to be held on Saturday February 23, 2013 at Georgia College. Contest rules and entry instructions to be found at www.noyce-georgiacollege.wikispaces.com. Schools are invited to enter as many teams of…
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Code-Switching Presentation
On Monday, March 5, 2012, Dr. Rebecca McMullen and myself, both of Georgia College, made a presentation at the Third Annual Middle Georgia Diversity Conference at the High Museum in Atlanta. The PowerPoint presentation, bibliography and literature review, as well as links to lesson plans and relevant websites, are available for download here.
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Teacher Workshop on Wind Powered Generators
The Workshop agenda can be found here and a pdf copy of the above flyer can be downloaded from here.
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Teaching Science through Conversation/What is Inquiry? What are productive ways to use students’ ideas for instruction?
In recent months I’ve thinking about Rosebery & Warren’s (2008) concept of science talks. In addition to modeling science talk for my own students by doing it with kids, I’ve been trying it out in an undergraduate physical science course I co-teach with a chemist. The students had been given the assignment to come up…
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Standards-Based Education is a Scam
There is no research basis for so-called standards-based education. There is not one shred of evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of many of the practices which I see in schools as I visit student teachers, not one study of the benefits of students knowing which standard they are “on.” Yet every teacher I talk with…
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Planning a 7th Grade Lesson on Cells
© 2010 Victoria Deneroff PhD. May be used by K-12 educators, but not republished in any form. This is part of an unfinished essay I wrote in response to a student teacher’s question, “Well how would you teach about cells?” The context of the conversation is a curriculum class. Teacher candidates were debriefing their experiences…