List of Goals for 2021-22 Academic Year
Instructional goals:
- Deliver rigorous content in a clear and concise way.
-Provide engaging activities to supplement lectures.
-Effectively differentiate for both ends of the bell curve.
Disposition goals:
-Cultivate a culture of respect in the classroom.
-Reciprocate trust between students and teachers.
-Communicate efficiently and effectively with students and parents.
Community goals:
-Inspire students to be well informed, global citizens who use a well-refined sense of morality when interacting with the world.
-Communicate and inspire a love of science within the classroom.
-Create a culture of looking at complex problems in a new and alternative way.
Instructional goals:
- Deliver rigorous content in a clear and concise way.
-Provide engaging activities to supplement lectures.
-Effectively differentiate for both ends of the bell curve.
Disposition goals:
-Cultivate a culture of respect in the classroom.
-Reciprocate trust between students and teachers.
-Communicate efficiently and effectively with students and parents.
Community goals:
-Inspire students to be well informed, global citizens who use a well-refined sense of morality when interacting with the world.
-Communicate and inspire a love of science within the classroom.
-Create a culture of looking at complex problems in a new and alternative way.
Distance Learning: Science at CAG
Physics at York - 2K19/20
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Newton's Cinderblock of Death
I love taking scientific principles and pushing them to their limits. In this classic demonstration, I prove Newton's second law: force equals mass times acceleration. Since the force of the sledgehammer and the mass of the cinderblock are already very large, the acceleration must be small; thus my body absorbs very little of the force. Science works! |
Students created YouTube videos that encompassed each of Newton's three laws.
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Students used humor and real-life examples to convey the true meaning of these laws.
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Student Work -2018/2019
As an organizational tool, my students use lab notebooks. This helps them to keep track of the various inquiry labs and content-based activities over the course of the semester.
As an inquiry based activity, students were asked to show the locations of all the recent earthquakes and volcanoes for a continental plate of their choice, as well as notate the age of the seafloor. This activity laid the groundwork for full comprehension of seafloor spreading.
In order to incorporate literacy-based learning into the curriculum, my students complete foldable note catchers full of in depth information about the course's vocabulary. These are intended to foster a deeper understanding than the regurgitation of textbook definitions.
Adults, as well as students, often grapple with visualizing the scale of geological time. In order to help students develop visualizations of years in the magnitude of billions, we created scale timelines of the history of planet earth. With a scale of one millimeter for every million years, the timelines ended up being around 4.5 meters in length.