using technology to ignite student interest in junior high science
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Using Technology to Ignite Student Interest in Junior High Science. Dave Dale and Rhonda Jessen. About us. Dave Dale - SPED, Science and Math teacher [email protected] Twitter: @car120c MrDale.edublogs.org Rhonda Jessen – Computer, Media, Science and French teacher - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Using Technology to Ignite Student Interest in Junior High ScienceDave Dale and Rhonda Jessen
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About us• Dave Dale - SPED, Science and Math teacher
• [email protected]• Twitter: @car120c• MrDale.edublogs.org
• Rhonda Jessen – Computer, Media, Science and French teacher• [email protected]• Twitter: @rljessen• MsJsScience8.wikisspaces.com• rjessen.edublogs.org• jessenscience.edublogs.org
• You can get a copy of this presentation, the Smart NoteBook examples and the list of links at http://rjessen.edublogs.org/?p=163
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SmartBoards• Presentations to introduce/teach concepts• Links to movies, documents, websites• Activities: label parts, make a working heart,
make a circuit• Demonstrations: glasses, body systems• Assessment: Question sets (can be used with
Senteos or without)• Student generated presentations
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Games• Review Jeopardy (PowerPoint)• Hollywood Squares
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Information, Simulations and Games• Links
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Communication• Blogs
• www.mrkeenan.com and mrkeenan.wordpress.com
• Connect with experts• Skype in the Classroom• Video Conferences – NASA etc.• Networking with experts or other classes• fcp11-3.flatclassroomproject.org
• Twitter nyti.ms/nxiiML • #SciChat• #EdChat• #EdTech
• Social Media• Edmodo.com• Moodle• Google docs
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Personal Media Devices• Note taking• Research, answering questions that come up in
class• Back channeling• Myth Busting (using cell phones to pop corn or
cook an egg)
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Low Tech
Camera Obscura
Digital Pinhole Camera
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Hands-on Activities and Projects
• Science in a Crate www.sciencealberta.org/educators• Central Alberta Science Network activity boxes casciencenet.ca•
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Hands-on Activity• Variables in Science and
shelleywright.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/inquiry-learning-this-isnt-scary-at-all
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Sharing
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• Dave Dale• [email protected]• Twitter: @car120c•MrDale.edublogs.org
• Rhonda Jessen• [email protected]• Twitter: @rljessen•MsJsScience8.wikisspaces.com• rjessen.edublogs.org• jessenscience.edublogs.org
• You can get a copy of this presentation, the Smart NoteBook examples and the list of links at http://rjessen.edublogs.org/?p=163