This is the first blog on this site. I must say a new endeavor for me. The purpose of this site is to share science teaching strategies from teachers from all over. So please feel free to contribute to this site. This is to help me as well as others.
Sorry about the double post....I used my back arrow and ijt did not reset. You can delete one. I like the extra features on the right side so that your conversion "applets" are right there. Very cool and useful!
One strategy that I used in the content area was to read the text the size of your hand in the article and then discuss that amount with a partner or summarize with a few words on a small post-it not. This breaks difficult reading up into manageable pieces.
This strategy might take permission from your building principal. For special needs children, take a few texts and highlight the most important things you expect all children in your class to know. Tell them to read ONLY the highlighted text. Then when you test, weigh the questions. Give more points to the questions pertaining to the highlighted material. Your special needs children won't ace it, but they can pass. This could be adapted to some lab work. Downside is the amount of time to set this up. After the first year you can coast a little.
Wow! I LOVE that picture of the ray. I even had a dream about the rays one night two weeks ago. Have you seen the whole series of photos?
ReplyDeleteWow! I LOVE that picture of the ray. I even had a dream about the rays one night two weeks ago. Have you seen the whole series of photos?
ReplyDeleteSorry about the double post....I used my back arrow and ijt did not reset. You can delete one. I like the extra features on the right side so that your conversion "applets" are right there. Very cool and useful!
ReplyDeleteThanks. I have pictures of them in a group swimming together. They only group together when they migrate. A very unusual spectical.
ReplyDeleteOne strategy that I used in the content area was to read the text the size of your hand in the article and then discuss that amount with a partner or summarize with a few words on a small post-it not. This breaks difficult reading up into manageable pieces.
ReplyDeleteThis strategy might take permission from your building principal. For special needs children, take a few texts and highlight the most important things you expect all children in your class to know. Tell them to read ONLY the highlighted text. Then when you test, weigh the questions. Give more points to the questions pertaining to the highlighted material. Your special needs children won't ace it, but they can pass. This could be adapted to some lab work. Downside is the amount of time to set this up. After the first year you can coast a little.
ReplyDeleteBe sure all students have a guide paper with scientific methods pointed before their labs. It will make things smoother and will tie in the process.
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