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This image shows great hot spots within Yellowstone National Park where hot magma heats the water underground and tremendous amounts of mineral deposits from evaporating water provide these brilliant colors. As I teach plate tectonics and layers of the earth, this picture provides excellent proof of the theory of plate tectonics.
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What a cute Valentine's picture. Your daughter Lily is adorable! The Yellowstone image is awesome - I love the colors. Just curious ~ In what other ways do you use images with your students?
ReplyDeleteThe books that we use are a series offered my Holt and we have access to them online as well. It is here that I take advantage of the images that are in their book along with extra images that the publisher included online. These images help visual students understand the material.
ReplyDeleteIn my health class when I am teaching about smoking and its relation to cancer, I have googled (before class so I could screen them) mouth cancer and lung cancer images and that really helps drive home the push not to smoke.
When talking about some of the curriculum I teach, it is very difficult to get an idea of the layers of Earth or how our continents have moved over millions of years without looking at images. So many of the concepts in my curriculum are better understood through images. I can talk about what Pangaea is and what it looks like. But none of my words do justice to an image. That is why I embed images in almost every page of my notes and have the students write all over the image for their own understanding.
ReplyDeleteOn numerous assignments I have also allowed students to draw or take picture to complete an assignment. For example, I had my students create a time-line of their science history. This time-line was to include anything they could remember about their interaction with science from when they were born to present. I allowed them to write, draw, or bring in images. They put it all together on paper and presented them at the end. It was neat to see all the different avenues that students took to complete the assignment! I feel I would now feel comfortable to include technology as a way of presenting the time-lines thanks to my CEP classes!