Science Writer Welcome to CAST Science Writer, the tool that supports students in writing lab and class reports. This tool is geared toward middle school and high school students. Check out the supports and help available in Science Writer described below. Or click the "Take a Tour" button above to see how Science Writer works. A Report Structure All parts of a science or lab report are broken into small steps so the author can concentrate on one part of the report at a time. A Process for Writing Science Writer helps you through the process of draft, revise, and edit when writing a science report. Sentence Starters The "Help Me Get Started" button has two functions (1) it divides the writing into smaller sections and (2) provides sentence starters when on the draft screens in the writing process. Checklists Checklists are available when you revise and edit your science report. Journal This is a place in Science Writer where you may write notes, reflect, make comments or questions, or keep track of data.
OWL Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content! We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. If you are having trouble locating a specific resource, please visit the search page or the Site Map. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. For more information about services for the Purdue University community, including one-to-one consultations, ESL conversation groups and workshops, please visit the Writing Lab site. Mission The Purdue University Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement.
The Historical Thinking Project | Historical Thinking Project The Best Fun Videos About Books & Reading I’m sure there are plenty of fun videos out there about books and reading, and I hope readers will point me in the direction of others besides the ones on this list. You might also be interested in A Collection Of The Best “Laugh While You Cry” Videos about teaching. I’ve used the videos on this list both as “discussion starters” and as fun ways to end a class when I have a few minutes of “extra” time left: Here’s the famous “Gotta Keep Reading” video from Ocoee Middle School: Here’s what books do at night when we’re not looking: Here’s a fun combination of library scenes from movies and TV shows: “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. …place in a world where books are living creatures. Here it is: Here’s a Rube Goldberg machine that turns the pages of your newspaper: Here’s one on organizing a bookcase: Book Dominoes: A maze grows in London is a Washington Post slideshow and Artists create maze using 250,000 books is a CBS News slideshow — both about the same event.
Revision Tips Must Have Life-long Learning Tools and Strategies for Teachers A teacher is a life long learner, in fact, everyone should be a lifelong learner, but the difference between us ( teachers and educators ) and others is that we have no choice but to be life long learners. We can not stop learning for fear that we might be outrun by our students. Thanks to technology and digital literacy , there are now a variety of ways for us to improve and work on our learning plans. Here are some posts to help you use popular social media for life long learning purposes : As avid readers of this blog ( I am happy many of you are), you have had the chance to discover several of the ways we use to leverage technology to serve our professional development growth and I have many more to share with you over the next coming weeks.Today, however, I want to share with you one strategy I personally use to keep my ' intellectual ' knowledge as a teacher fresh and up to date: Reading recent researches in the educational field. 1- Harvard Education 2- Scientific American
Vintage Hills Elementary School: Home A+ Click is a great math website designed for grades 1-12. You can sort the problems by grade level and topic. The problems are presented in a clean and easy to understand way, including graphics. Teaching Good Study Habits, Minute by Minute Nobody said that raising an adolescent was easy, and schooling one is even more of a challenge! Parents are taking on a lot of school responsibility, and let's face it -- things are different than they used to be. How are parents supposed to know how to handle the homework load without some guidance? Take studying, for example. The task does not have to be daunting. Getting Started Determine when tests will happen. Use school websites, email, planners, etc. to help you and your adolescent pinpoint an effective way to get tests on the calendar. Set a goal. Work with your student to determine how many days of studying he needs, and make a session-minute goal (one minute per grade level) and a target for him to study twice daily. Determine the study material. Notes, study guides, worksheets, or quizzes from the chapter or unit are all good choices. Ask and answer. Do it again. Set aside the same time increment before bed, and repeat the entire exercise. Minute-by-Minute Study Strategies 1. 2. 3.
How to master a new subject — Quartz I wasn’t always a good learner. I thought learning was all about the hours you put in. Then I discovered something that changed my life. The famous Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between “knowing something” and “knowing the name of something,” and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. Feynman stumbled upon a formula for learning that ensured he understood something better than everyone else. It’s called the Feynman Technique and it will help you learn anything deeper, and faster. The catch: It’s ridiculously humbling. Not only is this a wonderful method of learning, but it’s also a window into a different way of thinking. There are three steps to the Feynman Technique. Step 1: Teach it to a child Take out a blank sheet of paper and write the subject you want to learn at the top. A lot of people tend to use complicated vocabulary and jargon to mask when they don’t understand something. Step 2: Review This is where the learning starts.
Study With Jess Here it is! “Mind Full” is a 5 part web series all about e-mental health and how we can become our happiest, healthiest selves. Follow along as I meet with wellness and mental health experts, share my newfound knowledge of positive online usage and wellbeing with you, and put my own vulnerabilities online in the hopes of making a real difference; using my position as an influencer to be part of a solution rather than part of the problem. To kick off my journey to discover more about e-mental health and wellbeing, I sit down with a mental health researcher and run a little focus group with some of my viewers to see what it is they like about my videos. And what they don’t! For more information and resources on mental health visit: CATCH UP ON ALL THE MIND FULL EPISODES:▷ EP 1: EP 2: 3: 4: ▷EP 5: xo Jess xo Jess
Three Things Top Performing Students Know That Their Peers Miss | MindShift | KQED News Every class has students who excel and those who don’t. The reasons behind academic performance are myriad, but when Douglas Barton and his team at Elevate Education set out to study and benchmark the most effective practices used by top students in Australia, the U.K., South Africa and the U.S. they found three common practices. The company has used its findings to coach students on the most effective study strategies. Barton says 50 – 90 percent of students say IQ has the biggest impact on their ability to get good grades. Barton says his team found 13 other variables more important than IQ to predict academic achievement including things like self-discipline and self-motivation. So his first piece of advice to students is to stop worrying about IQ. The other reason students often give for not succeeding at the level they want is that they aren’t working hard enough. One of biggest differences between top students and everyone else was that when they study, they take practice tests.
Amelia: 5 easy steps to assignment success Amelia Dowe is the Learning Advisor for the Engineering, Built Environment and IT disciplines at USQ. She is based in The Learning Centre, which operates across USQ’s three campuses. I work in Library Services as a Learning Advisor for Engineering, Built Environment and IT. I did not always have these skills myself though. When I started my first degree , I had absolutely no idea to how to do an assignment. I did get the hang of it in the end (phew!) 1. This means looking at the task sheet and the marking rubric to understand what it is that the lecturer would like you to produce. Two important things to look for in the task sheet are the keywords and the instruction words. 2. Referencing starts not when you’re compiling your list of references, but right at the beginning when you’re doing your research. 3. Once you’ve done your research, you can start getting organised and map out a structure for your assignment. 4. Don’t expect your first draft to be the final version. 5. Related:
The Teenage Brain Is Wired to Learn—So Make Sure Your Students Know It Adolescence is an exciting time as teenagers become increasingly independent, begin to look forward to their lives beyond high school, and undergo many physical, emotional, and cognitive changes. In that last category, teenagers can learn to take charge of their developing brains and steer their thinking in positive and productive directions toward future college and career success. The brain’s prefrontal cortex, which functions as the control center for executive functions such as planning, goal setting, decision making, and problem solving, undergoes significant changes during the teenage years. The potential that comes from neuroplasticity—the capacity to change the structure and function of the brain through learning—provides the foundation for two crucial messages for middle and high school students: They have the capacity to become functionally smarter. Tools for Self-Directed Learning Don’t just read—learn. Consider the source. Create, then edit. Make a schedule—and stick to it.
4 Steps to Reading Your Textbook Efficiently | Students Toolbox Reading is definitely a huge part of learning, and there are almost no ways to avoid reading in college. If you are taking arts and humanity subjects, you will definitely understand the need of reading textbooks efficiently. By reading efficiently, it doesn’t simply mean finishing the reading fastly. It means you have to use the minimum amount of time to read and understand the text. A lot of people disregard the importance of understanding a text and simply go through the reading without having a big picture in their mind. In this week’s post, I am going to tell you how you can read a text in a way to actually understand the content well, and learn it well. I have applied this method not only to textbooks but also to other readings like articles, law cases and more. You may have heard quite a lot of times about active learning on my blog because active learning is that important. Now here are some reading strategies that will increase your interest in learning and reading. 1. 2. 3. 4.