Building Brilliant Resilience in the Classroom
Every year new students come into our classroom. We often don’t know what they’ve been through or what they’ve experienced, but we are able to […]
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Addressing Misconceptions in the Science Classroom
Looking at these above statements, how many do you think are true? Trick question: They’re ALL false! Now, don’t feel bad, a lot people believe […]
Brain Blasts in the Science Classroom
When I was younger, I absolutely adored the show Jimmy Neutron. Every so often during an episode Jimmy would get a brilliant idea of how […]
MTV: Creating a Culture of Critical Thinkers
“Do the reading by Friday. We’re going to talk about it in class, so be prepared.” I don’t know about you, but this was a […]
Constructivism: The Power of Prior Knowledge
Imagine you are a science teacher about to start a new unit about Cellular Respiration and you are dreading it. You know that this is […]
Cooperative Learning: There Is No I In Team (But There Is One In Interdependence)
Are you tired of group work? Does the idea of working with other people make you groan? Will your group members actually do their work […]
Find Your DRIVE
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who wanted nothing more than to learn how to play the piano. One day the little […]
Teaching in the Margins: A “yes, and…” Philosophy
When you hear the term “the margins”, what do you think of? Most people probably think of the edges of a paper where you write […]
Out of the Box Teaching
Exemplary science teaching may look different to each individual person based on their past experiences and preferences for learning. Did they have effective or non-effective […]