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In this lesson, students discuss the ingredients that make up a healthy frog pond. The objective is for students to be able to describe the components of a frog pond to include living parts—plants and animals—and…
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In this lesson, students create a list of living and nonliving things found within a frog pond habitat and discuss their relationships to each other through the creation of a simulated web using a ball of yarn. The…
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How the Brain Visually Perceives the World
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These classic activities explore how our eyes and brain receive and process visual information. Each activity requires approximately five minutes. For a richer experience with these activities, consult a neuroanatomy…
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Why Did I Completely Change My Classroom?
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The key to mastery learning is that students are required to show mastery of a concept before they are allowed to move on to the next concept. The teacher determines at what level the mastery must be accomplished—for…
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Research-Based Techniques Incorporated Within Mastery Learning
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This chapter begins with a brief explanation of cognition and how we learn. This explanation will serve as the foundation for understanding why the various aspects of mastery learning have the impact that they do.
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Practical Implications of Mastery Learning
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The research supports the belief that mastery learning results in improved student learning and motivation. But how do you actually do it? What are the implications of revamping a course to make it a mastery learning…
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How Mastery Learning Might Look
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In this chapter, the author describes what their mastery learning classroom looks like and presents several variations that could be used to make mastery learning fit specific circumstances or people.
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It’s very daunting to consider completely changing the way your classroom is run. The author went back and forth many times in the month before school started before making the switch to mastery learning. The author…
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Butter Battle: Physical Changes Versus Chemical Changes
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When passing hot rolls around the dinner table, buying popcorn at a movie theater, or making cookies, it is there: butter. Creating butter in a bottle helps students see how a physical change can be more drastic than an…
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Cinnamon Rolls: Creating a Control Set to Analyze the Role of Yeast in Baked Goods
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Have you ever taken part in a food fight? There are foods flying left and right, and all you can think about is how you don’t want to get mustard on your new shirt. But instead of worrying about stains, you really…
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Growing a Pancake: How Environmental Factors Impact Fungi Growth in a Sourdough Starter
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Many people spend time cultivating and tending gardens that grow items such as tomatoes, herbs, strawberries, and other produce. But how many people do you know who can grow pancakes? This experiment is all about…
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This experiment presents a different approach to using the biological agent of yeast in a liquid format. Rather than using the yeast in a baking procedure, the fermentation process is highlighted as part of the creation…
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If your students are ready to take on more responsibility in the lab, then this is the experiment for you. This experiment guides students through the process of creating their own procedure to test a given independent…
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This experiment takes a molecular view of sugar formation, introducing the sucrose molecule and how it can be arranged in different formations to create materials with very different qualities. The lab introduces…
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