Comments on: Intro to Hibernation http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/intro-to-hibernation/ Thinking about technology and education Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:25:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Quick Reflections on VSS 2009 | Clarify Me http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/intro-to-hibernation/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Quick Reflections on VSS 2009 | Clarify Me Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:19:46 +0000 http://cthompson.edublogs.org/?p=87#comment-359 [...] you have created in the digital world, shouldn’t we all be sharing?  Doesn’t that give more value to what you’ve spent time creating?  (2) Are you starting to notice a shift away from [...] [...] you have created in the digital world, shouldn’t we all be sharing?  Doesn’t that give more value to what you’ve spent time creating?  (2) Are you starting to notice a shift away from [...]

]]> By: Claire Thompson http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/intro-to-hibernation/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Claire Thompson Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:30:14 +0000 http://cthompson.edublogs.org/?p=87#comment-229 @Louise, I thought you might like the biomolecules idea! The key is that once most of the students are pretty sure of their hypothesis, you present them with 'testers' and they decide to which group the testers belong. As you say, it helps them to really become familiar with the functional groups. They also become more comfortable with the molecular structure diagrams, which can be a bit overwhelming at first. You asked what I'm having the students do with the information from my hibernation activity. After doing the activity, we did a Know-Wonder-Learn. I'm using the 'Wonder' portion to determine what information the students need to better understand hibernation. I just get the students once per week for 45 minutes, so we won't be able to do too much more with this. It was a good way to get at the students' prior knowledge. They are a very chatty and knowledgeable group, and this was a good way to get them <b>talking to each other</b> about what they know, as opposed to having them all want to tell the whole class all that they know ;-) @Louise, I thought you might like the biomolecules idea! The key is that once most of the students are pretty sure of their hypothesis, you present them with ‘testers’ and they decide to which group the testers belong. As you say, it helps them to really become familiar with the functional groups. They also become more comfortable with the molecular structure diagrams, which can be a bit overwhelming at first.

You asked what I’m having the students do with the information from my hibernation activity. After doing the activity, we did a Know-Wonder-Learn. I’m using the ‘Wonder’ portion to determine what information the students need to better understand hibernation. I just get the students once per week for 45 minutes, so we won’t be able to do too much more with this. It was a good way to get at the students’ prior knowledge. They are a very chatty and knowledgeable group, and this was a good way to get them talking to each other about what they know, as opposed to having them all want to tell the whole class all that they know ;-)

]]> By: mrsmaine http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/10/23/intro-to-hibernation/comment-page-1/#comment-228 mrsmaine Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:39:16 +0000 http://cthompson.edublogs.org/?p=87#comment-228 What a great idea! I love the slideshow and this is a great example of inquiry as well! I am definitely going to borrow this for the biomolecules idea that you have - it would be a great way for them to find the related functional groups between these molecules and get them thinking! I am focusing on more inquiry type activities this year. What are you planning to have students do with this information? Just curious as it seems there would be so much possibilities! Very nice. Isn't a hiatus great for rethinking through material? <a href="http://hurricanemaine.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">my blog</a> What a great idea! I love the slideshow and this is a great example of inquiry as well! I am definitely going to borrow this for the biomolecules idea that you have – it would be a great way for them to find the related functional groups between these molecules and get them thinking! I am focusing on more inquiry type activities this year.

What are you planning to have students do with this information? Just curious as it seems there would be so much possibilities!

Very nice. Isn’t a hiatus great for rethinking through material?

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