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Interactive Science | Interactive Notes- Plate Tectonics
| In this set of interactive notes students will: 1.compare the shell thickness of a chicken egg with the earth's crust, 2.make tectonic plates that offer clues as to how things began, 3.observe what those plates do on a convection current, and 4.mark the path of the current.
What are Interactive Notes?
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Teacher Notes
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►A strong 6-page set of
Teacher Notes
full of illustrations and details (shown left):
- Page 1 is divided into 4 easy-to-follow sections: How To Use
Interactive Notes, Student Materials (linked to a science supply
company), Additional Teacher Materials, and Beforehand.
- Pages 2-5 each focuses on one of the four student-performed demonstrations. They begin with a screenshot and a paragraph describing how students do the demo. The rest of the page contains more information you need to know, like- advice on how the demo works best, links/resources, cautions, different ways of doing the demo, and things you might say.
- The last page explains how to get the materials cleaned up and ready for your next science class most efficiently. Students do all the work!
►A stunning 7-slide
PowerPoint (shown right) that guides you and your students through the 4 demonstrations. There are 4 parts to each slide: the drawing, what we did,
what we saw, and what's happening. As each appears, it cues students to write it on their handout.
►A
student handout that follows the same format that the PowerPoint uses, which makes it easy for students to follow.
►This set of Interactive Notes comes with a special
Bonus Demo!, an unusual 5th demonstration you can come back the next day and do with students. It's worth the effort, and one that students will remember for a long time!
►A document that explains
how the Interactive Notes system works.
►20
pictures and drawings you can use any way you like to reinforce concepts.
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PowerPoint
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Choosing The Best
With all the demonstrations available, you might be wondering why we selected the ones we did. In most cases the choice was hard to make, but we use several criteria to guide that decision:
- The demo obviously needs to illustrate the topic
- It has to work every single time it’s tried
- But it shouldn’t over-excite students
- Or be complicated for you to explain or for students to do
- And it must be tantalizing enough to grab and hold every students’ attention
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We hope one thing noticeably missing from our website and lesson plans, or at least used sparingly, are the words “easy” and “simple” (we’re not fans of exclamation points either!!!!!). Nowadays those two words tend to be overused, and in most cases they exaggerate a claim. If you’ve ever had trouble assembling something that the directions said to just “simply” do, then you understand where we’re coming from.
The other reason we try to avoid the words “easy” and “simple” is that there’s nothing particularly easy and simple about a well-done lesson. An easy and simple lesson would amount to giving students a worksheet or pushing “play” on the vcr. Guiding a class of 30 students through a 45 minute journey through a topic in which everyone in the room learns something meaningful is actually pretty hard to do.
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