What follows is the beginning of an outline for a class on understanding and dealing with stress for a course I and others teach for 10th graders. Teacher tips are listed in red, throughout the document.

    Joyce Hubert-Theriot

Bayard Rustin High School

Science Class Goals and Structure

Multiple Intelligences 

 

Gardner's Eight Areas of Intelligence

 

We are admonished as teachers in the 21st century to have our students "utilize technology" in their learning. Normally, this means to have the students learn by doing work using computers and the Internet. Sometimes this seems to complicate the learning process unnecessarily by bringing into the process an additional variable. I'm feeling more and more, tho, that our kids are so much more comfortable online than they are offline. As a result, they may be easier to reach if they are engaged online during the learning process. That's one reason I like Webassign. It is non-threatening and (to a degree) non-judgemental (at least emotionally).

What I plan to do next school year!

I plan to use the creative ideas of my cognitive unconscious and my I -function combined to help my students become more creative, while having fun in their learning adventure. I plan to use "Scratch" for an introduction to a unit on Ecology along with the interactive games. Eventually, I would like my students to create a comic book of "Scratch in the Environment."

Fall project

link to scratch project: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/chenderson

TOPIC: ECOSYSTEM STABILITY

INTRODUCTION:

The balance of population in an ecosystem is a function of the population ratio of its producers, primary and secondary consumers.

DISCUSSION:

Scratch is a computer program in which when given a set of commands Scratch will respond. I will use this computer program in my classroom as a word recognition activity. In this activity Scratch responds to the question,WHAT IS THIS? with a picture and multiple-choice answers. When the correct answer is pressed or selected, the voice along with the word says good job! If the answer is incorrect the word oops! will appear.