Exploring Cells

This week I taught an inquiry lesson on the differences between plant and animal cells. In this lesson students were able to use microscopes to compare plant and animal cells. Then students used that information to build models of both plant and animal cells. To see examples of student work, or you could visit my webpage that has pictures of student projects. (Disclaimer: The web page is all torn up because I am totally revamping it for next year!) The lesson had some minor kinks in it and that caused me to reign in the students more than I should have. It was not taught in a classroom setting, but in a camp setting. Due to this there was no graded assessment of the student projects and student motivation was not a problem at all. All of the students had a great time exploring cells.

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Cruel and Unusual Punishment!

Just looking ahead at week 6 discussion!! To make us dream of having 50,000 dollars to spend on a reform. I think my problem will be to narrow down all my ideas. This will drive my husband more nuts than anything because I already have a brain that doesn’t quit and I need to talk my ideas out. Could be an interesting few days!!