Showing posts with label Backward Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Backward Design. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Resources for rethinking

This website deals with teaching students about sustainability and the environment. There are a variety of resources that teachers can use to encourage rich projects that students can undertake to promote change in the ways we look contemplate our stewardship of the Earth. The lesson listed  here are relevant not only to the Ontario Curriculum but to curriculum found in other provinces. It is very important that we address issues  of sustainability with 21st Century Learners because it is an area of great change where a lot of real world problems in the future may arise. Students need to become accustomed to designing and acting on solutions to the many ecological issues that we  face in our world today.




Here is the link.

http://www.r4r.ca/en

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

I found this really cool website filled with science demonstrations and activities which can be implemented into all forms  of science lessons. When preparing science lessons it can  be a challenge to find the appropriate demonstration. A good science demonstration is one that allows students to predict and explain their predictions. All science demonstrations should be easy for students to observe the results and to think of an explanation as to why those results were observed.

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/

At any rate check out the above link to this website it is filled with many useful  classroom resources.