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Science Teaching in Denmark – Page 2 – Ideas for Trying New Things
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. Quick Start Guide to Plickers. February 21, 2016. February 21, 2016. Plickers are an unplugged way to received instant feedback from students and gives teachers the ability to formatively evaluate their class without needing student devices. Here is Plicker’s own getting started guide. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). February 21, 2016.
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November 2015 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. November 26, 2015. July 30, 2015. Your students already know the rules. I try to take a different approach. My first lesson is a real lesson, I teach them something. Then I decide if I need to tackle poor behaviour or if they are already on track. Seriously, they already know the rules! Beware the floating voters. Consistency is not as big a deal as everyone says (sorry). The ultimate aim is to stop rewarding them. Click to share on Pinterest (Ope...
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Science Fair 2016 Part 1 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. Science Fair 2016 Part 1. March 10, 2016. March 12, 2016. This year, I have been really tight with deadlines. This has left my procrastinators with no time to do what they do best. I also made the students assign their roles at the beginning so there is someone to hold responsible for what they have and have not done. It has been a learning curve but hopefully it will push my students into greater independence and self sufficiency. These projects ...
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January 2016 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. January 16, 2016. January 10, 2016. During the summer, I went on an online course. About using technology in inquiry-based learning. One of the tools that appealed the most to me was Nearpod. For anyone that hasn’t seen it: it’s like projecting an interactive whiteboard on to each student’s device. You can use it to deliver content like notes and videos but also to formatively assess during the lesson. Top Five Things I Like about Nearpod. The oth...
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September 2015 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. Helping Students Become Independent. September 30, 2015. July 30, 2015. I think it’s worth a shot to try to get them to leave the nest! Here are some skills that I like explicitly teaching at the start of a new term. We call them ‘digital natives’ but they still try to write out full questions into Google. Show them how to get the most from their searches. Looking things up in books. Give them projects where they need to organise their own time...
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April 2015 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. April 19, 2015. May 3, 2015. If you look at the timestamps between this post and the last, you will see a year has elapsed. The National STEM centre. Now we are ordering equipment. They sent me dozens of pdfs with lists of equipment that they sent to a similar school and called on me to decide what we should have and what we don’t need. This job is hard! Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window).
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October 2015 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. Beware the November Dip. October 29, 2015. July 30, 2015. The November Dip is an annual occurrence in the northern hemisphere school year where teachers start to lose motivation before the big holiday at the new year. November is physically hard for most people in the north. You go to work in the dark and come home in the dark. The daylight hours, such as they are, are brief and shrouded with clouds. One of my greatest teaching moments was when a ...
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April 2014 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. April 18, 2014. My older students are learning about forests. There is a large range of prior learning in the group. One girl can name and spell all the taxonomic groups in Latin, a couple think it pointless to put things into groups because ‘everything is different’. Here are two literary passages to illustrate how I feel about this school of thought. 8220;‘.Give me your definition of a horse.’. Girl number twenty unable to define a horse! Thomas...
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August 2015 – Science Teaching in Denmark
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Science Teaching in Denmark. Ideas for Trying New Things. Back to school hints and tips. August 31, 2015. July 30, 2015. A week or so before the new term starts. Look over your old plans and resources. Decide if there is anything you want to re-use or re-purpose. If you know some of the groups you will have next year, map out some topics to carry you until the next break. Don’t do any work! Go out and watch a movie. Or go do something that will tire you out, to counteract new term nerves. Etc, can wait u...
