Using Science to make the world more Awesome
Written by Jason Bornstein
Here we go! It’s my 4th year teaching, my 2nd Cohort, and my 1st time as a Coach. It should be an interesting year… I hope to pick up my Action Plan where I left off last year, encouraging and developing GRIT in my students. Last year, grit was just a buzz word to me, … Continue reading “Kicking off another Cohort!”
Written by Jason Bornstein
As the school year winds down, my students frantically work towards final projects, tests, labs, and exams. I am madly scrambling through curriculum, extra-curricular commitments, and letting the Maple Leafs and Blue Jays toy with my emotions on a nightly basis. My Action Plan isn’t complete, but of course I’ve realized that it was never … Continue reading “The Adventure Continues”
Written by Jason Bornstein
Before I make my “Final Action Plan Post”, I have a few other things that I want to put out there. 1. Some More Authentic Learning Tasks Dilution While teaching my grade 11 chemistry students about dilution, I challenged them to determine the concentration of my (randomly prepared) sample as accurately as possible. The solution itself … Continue reading “Odds and Ends: Random Thoughts from this Year”
Written by Jason Bornstein
In my most recent foray into GRITTY problem solving in my science classroom, I posed the following question to my grade 11 AP Chem class: “What dissolves better in water: sugar or salt?” This relates directly to our solutions unit, and fit with the day’s lesson, Solubility and Saturation. Side Bar: one of my greatest … Continue reading “The Great Debate: Sugar vs. Salt”
