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Erin Nash

Doodling May Draw Students into Science | Science Education & Student Learning | Drawin... - 1 views

www.livescience.com/oodling-science-education.html

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    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Some people are visual learners and can learn better through images..
  • drawing should be recognized alongside writing, reading and talking as a key element in science education.
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 29 Aug 11
       
      I wonder if we should be doing this in our Science Investigations class?
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Drawing sometimes helps me see the whole situation and makes it easier to understand. I agree that this is a good tool for learning. 
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 29 Aug 11
       
      I can definitely understand that - I do have students do this often in Zoology. Is there any way to design a study around this?
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  • teachers and students indicated that when students were asked to draw to explore and justify understandings in science, they were more motivated to learn.
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Drawing is more hands-on than lecturing or doing worksheets out of a book. Plus, it helps to write something down cause you can remember it later.
  • students put wet hands on paper and were then challenged to represent what happened as the handprint faded using drawings involving particles. Teachers noted students were more engaged in class and performed better in their workbooks.
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      This reminds me more of a lab than actual drawing. How would you draw the particles?
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 29 Aug 11
       
      I wonder how they actually knew that the students learned better? How did they measure this?
  • "Drawing should act in service of learning, so it's important that drawing serves a key function and not become 'a coloring in pretty pictures' activity."
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      I agree, the drawing should be something you can learn from. not some busy work that teaches the student nothing. Therefore, the drawing method could be abused.
  • Many questions remain, such as whether one's skill at drawing influences how well you learn by it, and how teachers can use drawing in their classrooms
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      This would be could to look into. I personally think though that a student can learn the best from how they picture it whether they are artistic or not I don't think would matter.
Erin Nash

Declining Male Fertility Linked To Water Pollution - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090118200636.htm

science fertility sci_i research

shared by Erin Nash on 25 May 11 - Cached
  • Some of these are contained in medicines, including cancer treatments, pharmaceutical treatments, and pesticides used in agriculture. The research suggests that when they get into the water system, these chemicals may play a pivotal role in causing feminising effects in male fish
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 25 May 11
       
      Do these chemicals just cause these problems in vertebrates, like fish? Would it be possible to obtain chemicals like this, and test them on an invertebrate species?
  • Found in some industrial chemicals and the contraceptive pill,
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 25 May 11
       
      Birth control pills could cause this? How would that actually work? How could a birth control pill cause a male to change gender? What levels of the hormone are required to cause this gender change?
Marcy Withrow

The Fattest States List | Gallup Poll & State Obesity Rates | LiveScience - 0 views

www.livescience.com/15782-fattest-states-list.html

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    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Couldn't there be other outside factors that could throw this research off? Did they take an even number from each state? And of those people were there any that had certain circumstances where they couldn't help but gain weight? Also, why January to June? That's coming out of the "winter depression" where a lot of people don't exercise. 
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 29 Aug 11
       
      Very good points! This is a really good example of an article someone would possibly read in the general public, and they would just flat out believe it, never considering whether or not the science is solid. A BMI of 30 is pretty high, although BMI is not a very accurate way to measure obesity either.
  • South Carolina: 30.6 percent Louisiana: 31.2 percent Mississippi: 32.1 percent Delaware: 33.6 percent West Virginia: 34.3 percent
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      It seems like this research is suggesting that people towards the east coast are more obese. How could this be? Maybe they have a lot of Restaurants with unhealthy foods. it could be possible that they don't have a lot of orchards or state grown foods? I don't know much about these states. But, maybe they don't grow their own foods and have a lot of imports? 
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Note too that these states are southern east coast.
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  • Colorado: 20.1 percent Utah: 21.6 percent Connecticut: 21.7 percent California: 22.1 percent Rhode Island: 22.1 percent Massachusetts: 22.6 percent New Jersey: 22.6 percent
  • Healthy Body Composition www.DrDavidWilliams.comNew TonaLean-3 Can Help You Maintain Heal
    • Marcy Withrow
      Marcy Withrow on 28 Aug 11
       
      Now the skinniest people are here. There's a few from the west coast, but there are also a few from the northern east coast like Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. I find it strange that the obese are in the south and the skinnier are in the north. Maybe it's the environment and people care more about their appearances in the North while in the South there are southern Belles and farmers? I really don't know much about these states or why one side is more obese than the other. it would be interesting to find out..
    • Erin Nash
      Erin Nash on 29 Aug 11
       
      It would be interesting - there is definitely the perception that people don't eat as well in the South (lots of fried food, sweet tea, barbecue, etc. Not sure if those ideas are actually supported or not.
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