{"id":139,"date":"2017-09-15T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/edt431-531\/?p=139"},"modified":"2017-09-15T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T22:14:48","slug":"leave-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/exemplary-science-teaching\/2017\/09\/leave-the-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave the Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"To the left is a blank piece of paper awaiting for a student to take notes on. The paper is made up of the center and the margins. The center is where the student writes their lecture notes and the margin is where they write things that help them understand the material. Now think of the paper being your classroom. The main concepts are in the center of the paper, but where the students really get to understanding the material is within the margins.<\/p>\n

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My Experience with the Margins:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout my educational journey I have been taught a lot, but the material that I have truly remembered was taught within the margins. In high school, my physics teacher would teach us the formulas and have us do problems about motion and force. \"\"What I really remembered about this class is when we did the Physics Olympics! The class was split into teams and we would compete against each other in the events. The events included a ping pong ball launch, balsa wood bridges, mobile mania, egg drops, mousetrap race-car, and the musical physics event. This semester long activity made my clas\"\"smates and I really enjoy physics and the best part is we were also learning.\"\"<\/p>\n

The Margins:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Teaching in the margins is very important in a classroom, especially a science classroom. The following are reasons why:<\/p>\n