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Science teacher: Teaching photosynthesis - 0 views

doyle-scienceteach.blogspot.com/...teaching-photosynthesis.html photosynthesis biology
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  • John Burk on 11 Dec 11
     
    A great blog post about how an excellent biology teacher teaches photosynthesis to get past the "plants turn light into food" simple understandings. 
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Mediocre Physics Teacher: Thoughts on Teaching Newton's 3rd Law - 1 views

mediocrephysicsteacher.blogspot.com/...-teaching-newtons-3rd-law.html N3l physics
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  • John Burk on 19 Dec 11
     
    good list of resources for teaching N3L
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National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (NCCSTS) - 1 views

sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs pbl
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  • Anna Moore on 20 Jul 11
     
    has a cool looking case study on Red Bull for macromolecules. plus lots of other case study ideas for mini-research projects for students. includes lab handouts, answer keys, etc.
  • Robert Ryshke on 21 Jul 11
     
    This looks like an interesting site to include in a project-based approach to teaching. The cases may lend themselves well to interdisciplinary work and more extensive projects that will interest students. Let me know what the CFT can do to help.
  • John Burk on 28 Feb 12
     
    Awesome collection of case studies for science teaching. 
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Collateral Damage « Teach. Brian. Teach. - 0 views

teachbrianteach.wordpress.com/...collateral-damage freefall dynamics
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  • John Burk on 10 Sep 11
     
    Brilliant post on how to teach students that all objects fall at the same rate, and the damage we do when we force this issue
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PBL: Empowering Students - Crazy Teaching - 0 views

www.crazyteacherlady.com/...pbl-empowering-students.html pbl photosynthesis biology
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  • John Burk on 28 Mar 12
     
    very cool PBL to teach photosynthesis
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Think Thank Thunk » Teaching Biology: - 0 views

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  • John Burk on 31 Jan 12
     
    Interestng ideas on bio teaching
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Non-Inertial Teaching | Teaching girls. Teaching physics. - 1 views

noninertialteaching.wordpress.com AP-physics physics
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  • John Burk on 04 Feb 12
     
    great lab idea-split a lab into experimentalists vs theorists. 
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Pin Hole Theatre « Teach. Brian. Teach. - 1 views

teachbrianteach.wordpress.com/...pin-hole-theatre optics labs physics pin hole theatre teach brian
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  • John Burk on 15 Aug 11
     
    Great idea for a lab-build a pinhole theater
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Experts vs Novices: what students struggle with most in STEM disciplines (pdf) - 0 views

web.duke.edu/...20vs%20Novices_STEMcourses.pdf pdf stem pedagogy learning
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  • John Burk on 15 Mar 12
     
    hese results seem to indicate a troubling disconnect between how students (novice learners in the discipline), learn and understand their course material and how faculty (expert learners in the discipline) traditionally approach and teach this material. Possible reasons for this disconnect become clearer when we look at what differentiates an expert from a novice learner.
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FlipperTeach (CArolyn Durley, AP Biology, British Columbia) - 0 views

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  • John Burk on 25 Mar 12
     
    Carolyn Durley is a fast talking, multi-tasking, teacher of students first and biology second, who has fallen hard for technology. She attended McGill University and after receiving a Bachelor of Science she ventured West and made BC home for the last 20 years. She is currently in her 18th year of teaching; Biology 12 and AP Biology at OKM in Kelowna, B.C.
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Excellent Approximations and Lying to Children - Uncertain Principles - 0 views

scienceblogs.com/...imations-and-lying-to-children physics physics_curriculum curriculum_development
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  • John Burk on 01 Jun 12
     
    Interesting thoughts on the complaint that what we teach students in physics isn't true. 
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Inquiry Group Exams « Teach. Brian. Teach. - 0 views

teachbrianteach.wordpress.com/...inquiry-group-exams assessment group_work inquiry
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  • John Burk on 20 Dec 11
     
    Very interesting discussion of how do to inquiry based group exams
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Building the Momentum Transfer Model « Physics! Blog! - 0 views

kellyoshea.wordpress.com/...ng-the-momentum-transfer-model mtm momentum modeling
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  • John Burk on 04 Dec 11
     
    excellent description of how to teach conservation of momentum to students. 
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Resistance « Teach. Brian. Teach. - 1 views

teachbrianteach.wordpress.com/...resistance resistance ohm's_law physics
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  • Because of this, and despite the fact that it is common practice, it is sort of a mistake to find the resistance of a circuit element by plotting V vs I and finding the slope. Obviously, if the circuit element is non-ohmic it doesn’t make any sense to report a single R value. However, even if the circuit element can be nicely approximated by Ohm’s Law, it actually makes more sense to report the value of R as an average of all V/I ratios than it does to calculate the resistance by determining the slope of the best fit line.  This is especially the case if your best fit-line has a non-zero y-intercept.
  • John Burk on 31 Dec 11
     
    very interesting subtlety about the definition of resistance and finding R from a I-V plot. 
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Welcome to the Chemical Education Digital Library - 0 views

www.chemeddl.org Chemistry
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  • John Burk on 30 Dec 11
     
    huge library of chemistry teaching resources, lesson plans, web tools and much more. 
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Just in time teacihng - 0 views

jittdl.physics.iupui.edu/jitt pedagogy teaching_strategies formative_assessment
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  • John Burk on 26 Jan 12
     
    Just in time teaching is the idea of using short formative quizzes to help the teacher better understand student thinking. 
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Physics in High School and Two-year Colleges - American Institute of Physics - 0 views

www.aip.org/...hstrends.html physics statistics
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  • John Burk on 01 Feb 12
     
    lots of interesting stats on who teaches physics
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ElectroCity - 0 views

www.electrocity.co.nz envsci games
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  • John Burk on 04 Feb 12
     
    ElectroCity is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It's great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
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5 things about inquiry class « Teach. Brian. Teach. - 0 views

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  • Students in inquiry often think its “cheating” to go look online for information, or they think I want them to completely disregard information they look up. I don’t think they need to go look up information, but I’m happy if they do. Really, I just want them to treat ideas they read online no differently than they do ideas they hear from class. Those ideas are subject to our scrutiny, to our questioning; and we should concern ourselves with whether those ideas help us to build an explanation, or whether those ideas are merely providing scientific jargon.
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