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The Learner & Learning. Making Learning Stick: Three Principles to Help Us Get There. The second principle discusses how conceptual frameworks built on facts are important in gaining understanding (Donovan and Bransford). Students need to know certain facts and concepts before they can correctly understand new information. This makes sense to me, because how can a student truly develop number sense if they are only taught the standard algorithm for addition? While I understand how to incorporate principl...
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What Do I Think of STEM now? | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. What Do I Think of STEM now? Since March, my ideas on STEM education have grown. I previously had written about the importance of having all of the STEM subjects integrated into a project to have it be considered STEM. Now when I think about STEM, I don’t necessarily agree with that. We also had to be able to measure our bridges to fit the length requirement. In addition, we had to create mathematical engineering sketches. What do they need to be able to know to do this? The beaut...
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The Wonders of the “E” in STEM | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. The Wonders of the “E” in STEM. The institute changed this for me. I saw just how fun. Engineering can be, and how it doesn’t have to be hard if you are learning in an interesting and engaging way. We learned about all of the different careers one can have within engineering, and so many of them seem incredibly awesome. I felt that if I could portray this newfound enthusiasm about engineering to students, they might be as excited as I am about engineering. Have some sort of focus ...
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Falling Objects: How Do They Act? | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. Falling Objects: How Do They Act? In physics we have been discussing what happens when an object falls: what path does it take? How fast does it travel? Now we are furthering our thinking to how does weight affect the object’s speed? If someone drops two objects of different weight at the same time from the same height, and there is no air resistance, will the objects land at the same time? The heavier object will land first. The two objects will land at the same time. Writing and...
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The Learner & Learning. What Do I Think of STEM now? Since March, my ideas on STEM education have grown. I previously had written about the importance of having all of the STEM subjects integrated into a project to have it be considered STEM. Now when I think about STEM, I don’t necessarily agree with that. We also had to be able to measure our bridges to fit the length requirement. In addition, we had to create mathematical engineering sketches. What do they need to be able to know to do this? The beaut...
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Examples of Inquiry in a Science Unit | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. Examples of Inquiry in a Science Unit. Chapter 11 of How People Learn: Science in the Classroom. This type of inquiry question helps students to address possible misconceptions about what role air really plays. My next concern is the assessment piece. The author describes his formative assessments as gathering information to drive his instruction, as all teachers do. Does he grade this information? What does he do if many students are not grasping the information? Engineering is v...
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STEM Content Knowledge | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. My Perspective and Updated Perspective on STEM Education:. Https:/ katherinemckenna1.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/my-perspective-on-stem-education/. Https:/ katherinemckenna1.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/what-do-i-think-of-stem-now/. Falling Objects: How Do They Act? Https:/ katherinemckenna1.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/falling-objects-how-do-they-act/. An Evolving Look at STEM Education. Physics Argument with Counterargument. Revamped Lesson to Include Engineering. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Science is Imagination | katherinemckenna1
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The Learner & Learning. They reveal best practices for teaching science to students of all age levels. Below I include some of my thoughts in regards to some discussion questions our portfolio class generated. 3) Explain the purpose of Box 9-3 Evaluating the Methods Used in an Experiment (pp.408-409). How does the example provided in this section support the second principle, Knowledge of What It Means to Do Science? Choose a concept typically taught at your grade level. Describe a pedagogical strate...
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Looking at STEM through a kindergarten teacher's eyes. The Learner and Learning. Professional Development: What is Engineering? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. A site...
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What exactly is a “transdisciplinary” approach and what does it mean for objectives? | STEM inside
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Looking at STEM through a kindergarten teacher's eyes. The Learner and Learning. What exactly is a transdisciplinary approach and what does it mean for objectives? July 14, 2014. Image Source: http:/ www.greenwichschools.org/page.cfm? I found this illustration during the beginning stages of my research when I was focusing on understanding the differences between approaches of teaching. I found it really helpful in visually showing the differences between approaches to teaching and learning, but espec...
