Raising Interesting People: Collection #4 The Earth Machine - Couverture souple

Olson Ph.D., Meredith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0998462705 ISBN 13 : 9780998462707

Editeur : Glenhaven Publications, 2016

Synopsis

Light reading about interesting stuff. Earth is a machine. This is a collection of essays that weave slivers of knowledge into big images of what we know and how we know about the Earth. Students explore interesting topics. They connect ideas. A few well chosen stories help. Students love it. And thrive. And learn. And become interesting conversationalists. It is about nurturing and raising interesting people. Classrooms organized to grab their attention and enthusiasm promote development of this type of person. New concepts make life interesting. We notice more things and make connections that we have not made before.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

About the Author - Meredith Olson Ph.D. Dr. Meredith Olson, known affectionately as Doc "O" to her students, has taught elementary, middle school and high school math and science in Seattle for more than 50 years. Her primary goal is in improvement of pre-college engineering education. By going to lab to work on contraptions every day, her students come to understand properties of the mechanical world. “It has been a long and interesting trip.  Studying some metallurgy in grad school. Evening classes. After a full day of high school teaching.  Consulting for JPL as the Mars Pathfinder Educator.  Weekends. Working in the summer with UNESCO in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Uganda.  Teaching dozens of weekend and week-long summer teacher workshops in South Carolina and Montana.  Being a consultant and curriculum designer for Health and Physiology education in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. Being a summer adjunct University instructor for more than 20 years in Seattle, Idaho and Montana.  Teaching teachers.  Teaching students every day, every year for 57 years.  Observing how learning happens. Becoming aware when real learning isn’t happening.  When it is just “show.”  When it is just teacher–pleasing to get a grade.  To get a credit. To get a university degree.” See Dr. Olson’s open letter outlining her philosophy of lesson design, available on the JPL website - Exploring Preface pp 11-13 http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/education/modules/GS/GS07-19_preface.pdf Dr. Olson believes that children must construct their own understanding from active design and assemblage of contraptions. By testing, failing, remodeling, and trying again, we come to see the structure when we look. By carefully examining materials we have, we may perceive how to use them in new and unexpected ways. Children begin to understand the engineering process. Besides, it is fun!

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Glenhaven Publications
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0998462705
• ISBN 13: 9780998462707
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 108
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