Middle and High School … from a Montessori Point of View
Ellen Holderman has an excellent post about “24 Apps, Games, and Websites Teachers are Using in STEAM Classrooms” that are mostly free. (STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). They’re mostly aimed at a younger audience–middle school and below–, but there are things like Khan Academy that’s useful for all ages. Quite a … Continue reading “Useful Games and Apps”
Mrs. D. recommended this nice little article on “flipped teaching”, where students get lessons from videos (usually at home) and spend their time in class working on problems and getting help from peers and their teacher. Sounds a lot like Montessori. In middle school, for example, where you get a short lesson at the beginning … Continue reading “Flipped Teaching”
Using Khan Academy videos and practice sets, I’ll attempt to construct a lesson on how to work with radicals for algebra students. The idea is to have students watch the videos and do the practice sets while I monitor their progress using the Academy’s Coaching pages. Review of working with fractions (rational numbers) Start with … Continue reading “Rational to Radical Numbers”
Nice and fluffy loaves of bread requires the generation of bubbles in the dough. This is typically done either with an acid-base reaction (baking soda and an acid) or with yeast. Since we’re doing biology, we made some loaves and focused on how the process of bread making require careful management of the environment for … Continue reading “Culturing Yeast: Baking Bread in Biology”
Studying voltage and current in circuits can start with two laws of conservation. Note: Some of the links are dead, but this MIT Opencourse pdf has a detailed explanation. And Kahn Academy has some videos on the current laws as well. KCL: Current flow into a node must equal the flow out of the node. … Continue reading “Circuit Basics”