As a high school chemistry teacher in Silicon Valley California, I am continually striving to find the best methods for instruction for reaching the diverse group of students I teach. Focusing on regular chemistry students come to the class with various levels of reading, writing, comprehension, and even math abilities. Most of these students either didn’t score high enough to enter chemistry honors or have no desire to take it. Included in this are students who have transferred from other schools or countries.
Focusing first on how to present information to students, we realize that rich environments stimulate the brain, allowing for new connections to be made (Arends & Kilcher, 2010, pg. 165). Realizing a rich environment is needed, we are faced with knowing what it means to have a rich environment for learning. Do rich environments that are visually stimulating mean filling up the walls with information, pictures, and student’s work? I don’t believe so, I do know that if I enter a room over crowded …show more content…
There are six major tasks to consider when planning for PBL, including clarifying goals, electing or designing problems or questions, identifying resources, preparing assessments, organizing learning groups and orienting students (Arends & Kilcher, 2010, pg. 330). Living in an active area of California that is surrounded by mountains, ocean, and dessert, the boiling point of water is an interesting concept and a changing one at that. A PBL project where students investigate how the boiling point of water is determined. Students would collaborate and experiment to discover and understand to correlation between the boiling point of water and the elevation at which water is boiled
Focusing first on how to present information to students, we realize that rich environments stimulate the brain, allowing for new connections to be made (Arends & Kilcher, 2010, pg. 165). Realizing a rich environment is needed, we are faced with knowing what it means to have a rich environment for learning. Do rich environments that are visually stimulating mean filling up the walls with information, pictures, and student’s work? I don’t believe so, I do know that if I enter a room over crowded …show more content…
There are six major tasks to consider when planning for PBL, including clarifying goals, electing or designing problems or questions, identifying resources, preparing assessments, organizing learning groups and orienting students (Arends & Kilcher, 2010, pg. 330). Living in an active area of California that is surrounded by mountains, ocean, and dessert, the boiling point of water is an interesting concept and a changing one at that. A PBL project where students investigate how the boiling point of water is determined. Students would collaborate and experiment to discover and understand to correlation between the boiling point of water and the elevation at which water is boiled