Curriculum Planning and Varied Activities

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Curriculum Planning and Varied Activities
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School-based curriculum planning

• Major concerns
• Common Goal
• Panel Meetings
• Interflow of ideas among members
• Program Plan
• Delegation of jobs
• Evaluation

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Teaching Strategies

• Goal
• enhance motivation
• promote autonomous learning
• more varied learning
• encourage and facilitate creativity

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Teaching Strategies

• Teachers as facilitators for enhancing
• Motivation
• Student-centered learning processes
• Interactive self-learning processes
• Collaboration among students
• Students creativity

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IT as a powerful tool for motivation

• Power point slides
• CD ROMs
• Internet resources
• Physics World (http//www.phy.cuhk.edu.hk/phyworld
  /)
• Hong Kong Education City (http//www.hkedcity.net/
  )

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IT as a powerful tool for motivation

• Digital video clips
• Video capture device
• Digital editing programs
• High performance hardware needed

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IT as a powerful tool for motivation

• Simulation programs
• Examples
• Phase relations of particles in waves
• Images formed by mirrors and lenses

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IT as a tool for communication

• E-mail
• On-line chat
• Newsgroup

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Visits with learning objectives
• Science Museum
• Space Museum
• Power Plant

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Intra and Inter-school Competitions
• Science quiz contest
• CAL package design competition
• Dropping Eggs on Earth competition
• Straw Bridge Building competition
• Inter-school Science Exhibition

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Project work
• Ideal for enhancing students creativity and
  cultivation of collaboration power
• Clear instructions, schedule and expectation
  needed
• Investigation and research on subject topics

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Project work
• End product
• Model making
• Self-learning CAL packages
• Power point files
• Computer Programs
• Webpages
• Formal Report

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Presentation of
• Projects
• Subject topics

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Data logging experiments
• Real-time sampling of data and plotting of
  results
• Data collection for a long-period of time
• Inquisitive investigation projects

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Varied Teaching and Learning Activities

• Data logging experiments
• Questioning and trying things out What if
  approach
• Examples
• Conservation of momentum
• Forced Oscillation

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.other activities?