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Content Area: Science

Taking Flashcards Up To “Analyze”

We had a pack of animal flashcards. But my kid can already read. So here’s how we took these low-level cards up to Analyze – in three different ways.

Help my students remember these confusing terms!

If you want students to memorize, you can’t aim for memorize. You have to aim higher – and then memorization comes along for free.

Taking A Zoologist Across Disciplines

All I did was ask students to list and explain three “disciplines.” Let’s take it a bit further!

Updating Old Questions: A Mere Model of a Cell

Why are my best biologists just restating facts we already know?

Updating Old Questions: The Planets’ Order

Oops! I just asked my students to put the planets in order! Here’s what I could do differently…

Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives

Just because we have two perspectives doesn’t mean we have a great question!

Climbing Blooms With A Science Lesson

How I’d push a mere science demonstration to higher level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Upgrading A Research Report

So many “research reports” are really just “regurgitation re-writes.” Here’s one way to take a research report to a much more interesting level.

Pop Quiz! Rock Cycle Depth and Complexity

Here are a set of questions someone sent in. What do you think?

Thinking Like Producers About Consumers

Here’s how I’d use ethics and multiple perspectives to get students thinking about producers, consumers, and decomposers in new and interesting ways.

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