Hands-on Activities

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Hands-on Activities Concrete Manipulatives
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Technology for Science Math
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Which are More Effective,Hands-on Manipulatives
or Technology Equipment and Applications?
Should we be asking,
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Do modern technologies make low-tech, hands-on
activities and concrete manipulatives outdated?
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Engaged Students More Learning!
NO!
Hands-on Activities

Technology

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Benefits to Incorporating Both

• Reach more students by addressing different
  learning styles multiple modalities
• Deepen students understanding and mastery of
  concepts and skills

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When, Where, Why, and How?
To Tech or Not to Tech
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Does this equipment, application, digital media,
resource, or activity

• Facilitate effective content delivery or increase
  the effectiveness of the lesson?

• Allow the students or the teacher to access
  information or complete a task that would not be
  possible or would be difficult without the
  technology?

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Does the technology

• Increase student engagement in ways that promote
  deeper understanding and achievement?

• Enhance students ability to demonstrate or
  apply, practice, create, evaluate or analyze,
  communicate or present?

• Save time and/or increase productivity?

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Integrating various technologies into hands-on
concrete activities should not mean double (or
triple) the preparation or double the class time.
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Technology can help students

• Organize their thinking (brainstorming,
  collaborative planning, concept mapping)
• Graphically represent, manipulate and revise
  ideas, procedures, flow charts
• Illustrate and manipulate concepts and processes,
  including cycles, cause and effect.

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Technology can help students

• Digitally capture observations made during
  hands-on activities
• Photograph or video
• Record and organize individual, group and whole
  class results
• Display, manipulate, analyze and evaluate data

• Perform time-consuming or complex computations
  which might otherwise frustrate or detract from
  the essential concepts around which the activity
  is focused

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Technology can help students

• Communicate and collaborate remotely with other
  students and with experts
• Wikis
• Collaborative web projects
• Ask an expert
• Chat and Video conferencing

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Technology can help students

• Present what they know and can do
• PowerPoint or other presentation software
• Digital Stories- free or low cost
• Video and podcasts
• Flash or other animation

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So, how can you do this in your district, school,
classroom?
Or Sounds great in theory, but what about a real
classroom?
Lets take a look at some authentic examples
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Space Unit

• Hands-on with concrete manipulatives
• Models of solar system
• Kinesthetic simulations (ex flashlight, globe,
  simulating rotation and revolution)

• Star charts
• Creating Constellation Models- construction
  paper, holes, flashlight (or overhead projector)
• Live viewing of constellations

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Online Interactive Star Charts - Skyview
Caféhttp//www.skyviewcafe.com/skyview.php?versio
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Space Unit- Technology Integration
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Space Unit- Technology Integration

• Starry Night software
• NASA website and other interactive websites
• Create your own Space Adventure Web Quest
• Presentations

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Hands-on Flower Dissection
Students dissect a complete flower to locate and
identify the male and female reproductive parts.
As they remove the parts they place them in the
correct place on their recording sheet.
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Flower Parts- GizmoExploreLearning.com
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Pollination Gizmo ExploreLearning.com
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Going Further Increasing Interactivity and
Student Engagement

• Lets seamlessly incorporate the technology into
  the concrete, hands-on activities

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Document Cameras Interactive Whiteboards
Incorporating
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Activities modified fromAIMS (Activities
Integrating Math and Science)FOSS (Full Option
Science System)
Into Hands-On Activities with Concrete
Manipulatives
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Thank YouKaren Muskakaren.muska_at_ousd.k12.ca.us
Resources atwww.kmuska.pbwiki.com