Using Science to make the world more Awesome
Written by Jason Bornstein
This article is a follow-up to my original post on Station-Based Learning. Please read it here if you haven’t already. I spent some time this week connecting with my users and gathering feedback on the station-based learning lessons. I asked each student five questions: How much do you enjoy the learning stations activity, compared … Continue reading “Feedback for Station Based Learning”
Written by Jason Bornstein
How Might We Improve Student Engagement in High School Science Classes? Here’s the motivation for my action plan: most of my students are very social. They are also (for the most part) lower achievers than students I’ve taught in the past. So, I have many students who are more interested in talking than listening, and … Continue reading “Will “Station-Based Learning” increase engagement in science class?”
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”
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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”
Written by Jason Bornstein
“Better Late Than Never” … Although it seems like ages since our Face2Face session, I feel like I have had enough time to reflect on my Action Plan and even start putting it in place. There is never a shortage of distractions, and admittedly I should have posted something weeks ago, but here we are. … Continue reading “Developing GRIT in the Science Classroom”
