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Week 10 Shirley's Blog

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 Lab:  The video about the movement of the convection:  https://youtu.be/N0PIKC657W4 Activitymania: -Big Problem: not let the students discovered by their own. They do not have the problem after their leaning. -more control of the class management -the lab activities -Hands-on and mind-on, they don't learn anything, they just do what you said. -Inquiry is a long term. How do we assess our students? Assignment, Exit ticket What does "A" mean? Profession, to show the understand of the class At the top of the ability  Then we do the grade scale of our class score Learning for the students not for test What are the Layers of the Earth? The we do the activity: Lecture: 1. Earthquake/Volcanoes 2. Plate tectonics 3. Rock cycle Several igneous Rocks is smaller that the others Pressbook: Earth’s Structure: At the Surface and Underground Earth is made up of four layers. The outermost layer is called the  crust (地壳) . The crust is made up rocks such as basalt and granite ...

Week 9 Shirley's Blog

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  Lab:  We talked about the School of wild, Phoebe and Ruby talked about what we gonna teach for our school of wild class. Then we asked to do the activities below: The we ask to went to the website:  https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/earthviewer To see the events: Then we put that on the time line: And talked about the stories of snowball earth. Lecture:  No lecture, exam 2

Week 8 Shirley‘s Blog

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Lab:  We did the presentation one by one of the group, and introduce the 6 topics 1. Origin of the Universe 2. Lifecycles of Stars 3. Galaxies Some of the most fundamental structures in the universe Consists of stars, planets and vast clouds of gas and dust, all bound together by gravity. Most galaxies are the age between 10 billion and 13.6 billion years old The Milky way galaxy alone contains roughly 200-400 billion stars, but it's estimated that the observable universe has over 2 trillion  galaxies I learned what is the central  of the galaxy? It's the black hole 4. Origin of the Earth The universe began with Big Bang theory The lithosphere contains the solid, rocky outer layer of the earth Earth's core is as hot as the sun's surface 5. Black Holes All black holes are black, Black holes "suck" everything  Formed when a very big star is at the end of the life, can be different size Time occurs differently near the black hole due to relativity light cannot es...

Week 7 Shirley's Blog

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 Lab:   Talked about the homework: Private Universe: 1984, kid will have misconceptions of the science.  what does it tell us about teaching and learning Last 40-50 years, it is no better, if you don't know it, you don't know how to teach. What is the first thing I have to do? Figure out what our kids know. If we don't see the value of that, if we don't know what you understand, you can not teach. NDSL stamp map: Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. (1 grade) Size of the sun, the earth, distance to analyze and interpret data to determine scale properties of objects in the solar system. This was the first try of the scale model in our group The we fixed that, this was the final scale model in our group on the table Then we put those in the meter tape on the floor I knew the size between the sun, 4 inner planets and the moon. Presentation next week, Monday. Lecture:  Alternative Theories For the origin of th...