Thursday, November 8, 2012

Blog 5B: Science Fair Proposal

1. Teaching History
2. Children in schools learn less with standard book work, which many schools use in favor of Integrated Project Based Learning.-
 Shonkoff, Jack, Dr. "Quotable Reading Quotes." Reading Rockets. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2012. <http://www.readingrockets.org/books/fun/quotable/>.

3. If a student works in a high noise level environment, then their competence quantity will be less. (Not my final, or even remotely related, but what I could come up with at the time.)
4. I plan on working with my mentor to create two lesson plans, each with the goal of the same knowledge, but one rooted in PBL, while the other will be rooted in standard book work. After teaching the lesson, a test will be given to gauge the amount of knowledge retained from both methods.
5. Select one of the following Project Categories for your experiment:

Behavioral/Social Science

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Working EQ and Possible answers

1) My working EQ was "What is the best way to ensure students retain knowledge in a class.
2) I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.
3) Checking for Understanding, Guided Practice, and also Independent/Partner work, could all be answers.