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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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