STUDENTS AT WORK

Videos were taken with written permission from students' parents and used as a part of my UMD Learning and Teaching in the Physical Sciences class.  Students were asked to think about and investigate a series of buoyancy prompts.  Routine assessment via questioning and asking for reasoning were performed and a variety of instructional strategies were used to ensure every learner had an opportunity to share his or her thinking.  Activities were all process-focused rather than result-focused, and reflect an in-depth understanding of the importance for students to experiment and reason with one another rather than race to the finish line with an answer to a teacher's question.