Taking A Zoologist Across Disciplines All I did was ask students to list and explain three "disciplines." Let's take it a bit further!
The Marshmallow Challenge A fantastic fuzzy problem to start the year. Students use pasta and tape to try to get a marshmallow up as high as possible.
Reader Question: Unusual Animals A reader asks how we can take the typical "look up facts online and then present with PowerPoint" task to an appropriate level of challenge.
Creating A New Creature We're not doing a fluffy art project here. Kids are developing a realistic, made up creature that could have actually lived in a particular biome.
Climbing Bloom’s Taxonomy In Science Science should be more than memorizing facts. Let's spice it up and push our students from the doldrums of remembering to the soaring heights of evaluation. While it's true that this will take longer than just following a textbook, we're not just teaching facts, we're equipping students with the ability to make well-informed judgements.
Pop Quiz! Rock Cycle Depth and Complexity Here are a set of questions someone sent in. What do you think?
Updating Old Questions: Volcano from Two Perspectives Just because we have two perspectives doesn't mean we have a great question!
