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Learning Science through Inquiry Workshop
Slides from Learning Science Through Inquiry.pdf Invitation to Inquiry – Grid Summary.pdf Process Skill rubric.pdf Pennies on a Bridge Inquiry Card – used for the DRiVe activity If you want more then check out what’s on offer this August up … Continue reading
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Sct 11: End of Unit Forensics “Test”
A guest post from Sarah Bretherton, a VSB science teacher. The students went to the crime scene in groups and had to stay on the other side of the police tape. Having already reviewed the story of the crime, the … Continue reading
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Learning through Inquiry: QFT & the BC Curriculum
In a recent guest post, HS Science teacher Carl Sommerfeld shared how he used the Question Formulation Technique (aka QFT) to provide structure for students to ask questions that would guide a unit of study. One of the key facets of the … Continue reading
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Make Just One Change: In Your Biology 12 Classroom
A guest post by Carl Sommerfeld, a science teacher at John Oliver Secondary where he shares his experience of “teaching students to ask their own questions” by using the question formulation technique shared in the book “Make Just One Change”. Recently I decided … Continue reading
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Learning Contexts versus Learning Intentions
Based on a close reading of Chapter 3 of Embedded Formative Assessment (Wiliam 2011) The distinction between learning contexts and learning intentions is an important pre-requisite to realizing the improvement in student learning which education research evidence suggests is achievable. … Continue reading
Why Share Learning Intentions with Students?
Based on a close reading of Chapter 3 of Dylan Wiliam’s book Embedded Formative Assessment (2011) The research evidence for the benefits of sharing learning intentions and success criteria is powerful and persuasive. Wiliam provides an overview of an extensive … Continue reading
Self-Regulated Learning
Want to write about this but these links will have to do for now. Resources that make explicit the links between self-regulation and learning. Note: authors include UBC’s Deborah Butler and Nancy Perry. A condensed overview of AfL which makes the point … Continue reading
Learning Intentions – Science 9 Electricity
During the past two weeks I have been collaborating/team-teaching with a colleague. One thing that came out of that time was a unit overview for the Electricity topic of the BC Science 9 curriculum. The unit overview addresses all four … Continue reading
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Science 8 Learning Intentions
These “units” span the entire Science 8 and Science 10 courses for BC (more examples of other unit plans). They were created by Karen Greig who is sharing them under a Creative Commons Licence. Feel free to use but be … Continue reading
