Archive for the 'Physical Science' Category

The Scientific Method Lesson

Friday, November 6th, 2009 by Gina Oldendorf

In my presentation on Science Notebooks at LSTA this week, I talked about the Scientific Method Journal that I use when teaching my students the scientific method and how to write a lab report.  This is an example of using a journal within the Interactive Science Notebook.  This is the through activity and as an out activity, they conduct a simple lab from the problem to the conclusion and write a lab report.  If you print this 2-sided and then fold in half, it will make a booklet and be in order.
Scientific Method Booklet

Matter Concept Maps

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 by Gina Oldendorf

I have made my first assignment using Discovery Streaming Builder tools and I love it.  I think that I am hooked.  I decided to start with something simple, but I wanted to meld our 1:1 laptop technology with the science notebooks that I feel are an essential part of student learning.  For the In Activity, students are given the following words:  matter, element, mixture, pure substance, compound, heterogeneous mixture, and homogeneous mixture.  Using 3×5 index cards and the internet, students will make a definition card as seen below:

Definition Card
They will then view some videos from Discovery streaming and then take the relationships and use https://bubbl.us/beta/ to make a concept map.

Matter Concept Map

Using Glogster, Wordle, Google Earth, and Podcasts in Physical Science

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 by Gina Oldendorf

In this project, students will take a virtual field trip beginning at our school in LaPlace, Louisiana to the sites of several nuclear disasters that have occurred in the world.  The field trip will end at the closest nuclear power plant to our school, the Waterford Nuclear Power Plant in Taft, Louisiana.  At each stop on Google Earth, the students will encounter a digital Glogster poster that contains embedded video from Discovery Streaming, YouTube, and TeacherTube.  There will also be quotes imported from Wordle from major figures involved in the incident.  Pictures from various websites including Discovery Streaming will also be featured on the poster.  As the assessment to this project, students will make a 5 minute podcast in which they will describe what would happen if there were to be a nuclear accident at the Taft Plant. Below is the Glogster that I made for the Three Mile Island portion of our Virtual Field Trip.  This will be embedded on Three Mile Island on Google Earth so that students can see where Three Mile Island is located and they can learn a little of the history of the Island.

 

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