Motivating the Student

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Motivating the Student

• EDU 412/413

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Objectives

• Widen range of teaching strategies to personalize
  science and mathematics
• Immediate Ownership
• Definite Context
• Active Learning
• Targeting Naturalist Intelligence
• Work outside of time-constraints

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Extending the Classroom

• What types of activities enable learning to
  extend beyond the classroom?
• Homework
• Projects
• Field Trips
• Observational Exercises
• Safe Experiments / Demos

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Observational Exercises

• Recording tree species by leaves
• Energy use in the home
• Statistics in the news
• Estimating the distance to the sun
• Light Pollution
• Traffic Noise Pollution

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Observational Exercises

• What observational exercises have you used or
  done successfully in the past?
• What observational exercises would work for the
  subfields in science and mathematics?

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Safe Experiments / Demos

• What causes rust?
• What materials keep you the warmest and why?
• Inertia experiments...
• pH and soil sampling
• Geometric Design

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Safe Experiments / Demos

• What experiments / demos have you used or done
  successfully in the past?
• What experiments / demos would work for science
  and mathematics?