Great idea for teaching cells to young learners

This is an excellent article that uses legos to help young learners explore cells. Using legos as a launching point, this article describes using the "building blocks" analogy to teach stud... See More

This is an excellent article that uses legos to help young learners explore cells. Using legos as a launching point, this article describes using the "building blocks" analogy to teach students that cells are the building blocks of life. This is an excellent article that will surely help young students understand that cells are the building blocks of life.

Great Article

This article is really good. It shows how teachers use analogies everyday without even knowing it. It also gives a 6 step model for teaching with Analogies. I like that the model can even be... See More

This article is really good. It shows how teachers use analogies everyday without even knowing it. It also gives a 6 step model for teaching with Analogies. I like that the model can even be applied to lab activities. In labs, I would assume students where getting the connections between the lab and the content and am latter surprised after reviewing a test that they really did not understand what they were doing. Using this Six Steps in the Teaching with Analogies model will help me make sure that the students see the connections between the lab and the concepts the labs are trying to reinforce. This article is a must read for all teachers. Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!