Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Constructivist Learning Environments for the Science Classroom

Picture this a Science Classroom with lab counters only and many resources layed out for investigation. I would be inspired to look at "play" with the objecte to create or make some kind of sense out of them.

Ideally i think this would be great!! However there are some thing that must be taken into concederation. Lots of Planning, lots or resources ( that sometimes are not available) lots of space, smaller class sizes to facilitate discussion and easy assessment and monitoring, and TIMe to set up change resources to keep students interested and challenged

I try to use constructivist teaching methods in science but I find it difficult to do when studnets don't even want to read directions.

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