How I used these materials/Middle School Science
From OOGEEP
Submitted by Jeanne Helgeson, Sandusky City Schools
Consider energy education and your curriculum. How can you incorporate what you have learned into your science curriculum? Brainstorm some ideas that would include a science concept that needs to be taught, a variety of teaching methods to address retention, and the use of graphic organizers.
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[edit] Benchmarks, Standards, Content or Concepts
[edit] Physical Science
Exploring the Laws of Motion and the Effects of Forces and Motion 1. Describe how an object can have potential energy due to its position or chemical composition and can have kinetic energy due to its motion. 2. Identify different forms of energy (e.g., electrical, mechanical, chemical, thermal, nuclear, radiant).
[edit] Earth Systems
1. Explain the Earth’s capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally can change the environment quality depending on the length of time involved.
[edit] Scientific Inquiry
1. Formulating Scientific Explanations and models using logic and evidence. 2. Conduct investigations and record data. 3. Use proper equipment and safety precautions. 4. Understanding the roles of models and simulations. 5. Explain that variables and controls can affect the results of an investigation and that ideally should be tested one at a time; however it is not always possible to control all variables. 6. Identify simple independent and dependent variables.
[edit] Science and Technology
1. Understand the role of technology in geology and petroleum industry today. 2. Explain how need, attitudes and values influence the direction of technological development: environmental and economic concerns; limitations of science and technology.
[edit] Ways to incorporate different teaching methods
- Lecture
Add humor, address current issues that may be impacting their lives, make 5 major points or so and then change to another teaching method and come back to lecture later.
- Reading
Assign Lifestyle, Energy, and Economic Benefits from oogeep notebook; Cover any new vocabulary; Allow team reading, individual reading; Have students prepare questions to ask others and also the answers; Give students post-it notes and allow only that much room for major ideas; Make the graphic organizer with the key terms and fold it in half cutting it into flaps so there are only 3 places to take notes like we did in class; Find interesting reading for them; Use Geofacts – simplified by students as if they were to present to lower grade levels- perhaps made into a short picture book.
- Audio-visual
I will use parts of the power points from the OOGEEP workshop as an introduction, and more intensive learning tool; look at the geological time era layers in Ohio along with the rock kits and which rock types are found where in the layers; Use interactive Smart Board for a wide variety of uses; Ask essential questions; Use Internet research sharing; Use drawings and diagrams by teacher and students; Use flip camera videos of models, demos, and interviews; Use document camera to share work by students; Use posters, pictures.
- Demonstrations
Use contour mapping activities, have students make their own puzzle box with keys and do each others – 1-2 day activity; Pore spaces in variey of materials – powdered clay, sand, gravel, pebbles,- measure and record data and chart and compare data; Offer extra credit- make an edible product that could model layers of the Earth- like the cake example. It could also be a vegetable pizza (not cooked or their ideas.); Present studies like we did in our workshop; Do the roadmap with different groups presenting, demos, and a class activity; Students design and share their ideas of demos for concepts and models; Students videotape their demos and share in class, too; Students all need a job in the demonstrations and to be accountable for their part; Students will also be responsible for clean up.
- Discussion Groups
Teacher will give the students topics to discuss (research); First discuss in teams of 2 and then expand to teams of 4; All students will be required to partake and be given roles.
- Practice by Doing
Students will all have hands-on, minds-on learning; By doing activities they will make the learning their own and have true ownership of it.
- Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning
Students have to understand the material in order to teach it; Make sure they do understand the material so they will be confident in teaching it to others.
- Use of Technology
We have the world and its knowledge at our fingertips on the internet; My students have digital cameras, flip cameras (video), computers, document camera, and Smart Board access.
- 21st Century Skills
Students will utilize technology, demonstrations /models, and as a class we will make a video of what we did and learned on our project of Roadmap of Natural Gas and Oil; We will also keep regularly up-to-date on the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
[edit] Graphic Organizers
1. I will definitely use the one that I mentioned above that we did at the workshop. Fold the paper in ‘hot dog’ style write a list of terms to learn on the front with maybe a total of 8 down the paper. Cut between the words so that you have a flap for each. On the half of the page behind the terms draw lines to match the separation of the words on the front. For the term on the flap you can write on the back side or in the same space on following page and again on the back of the page. The point is that they only have room for the essential information in their notes.
2. I will also use the flip book we made a the workshop for the model on a working well pump. The students will draw a picture of the diagram of the well on the top flap. Then each part of the well has a flap where the student indicates what happened and must explain scientifically why it happened.[edit] Field trips or Speakers
Our school currently isn’t allowing fieldtrips. However, we do have distance learning. I want to connect with a petroleum engineer or geologist either by distance learning or have someone come in as a speaker from OOGEEP or Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources Geology Division.