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”
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”