The question can be more important than the answer…. at least if it is a question that motivates a student to find an answer. Learning nomenclature can be dull, there is no doubt but if questions involve more than pure fact, perhaps even a little imagination, the learner might just find things to be interested …
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Help your students cast a net for enhanced learning by stringing ideas together into a network of connections and explanation. Both concept maps and mind maps are like graphic organizers but they emphasize much more inter-connectedness between the ideas and explanations portrayed. There is a simple and on-going exercise for using these tools in your …
From the University of Virginia Magazine: Costly Cartoons? : Fast-paced shows hurt kids’ executive functions, study shows. The cartoon SpongeBob Square Pants rules the roost as the most popular television show for children between the ages of 2 and 12. But the program’s undersea mayhem may come at a cost. A study by two U.Va. …
It seems to me that the world becomes less and less conducive to quiet thought or insight… activities that can only aid a student studying complex physiological processes (or anything for that matter). Your students are juggling a lot of input, much of which is presented with lots of bells and whistles. The young ones …
LISTENING SKILLS DRAWINGS: Making connections between A&P and the rest of the world – through listening attentively to a description and then drawing what is described will involve lots of varied thought and create many connections. Students will need paper, pencil or pen and two different A&P drawings or diagrams for each pair of students. …
Creative activities to help your students learn about the Endocrine System. Activities marked with an * are quick and could easily be incorporated into class. 1) Conversation Starter for Fight or Flight* 2) Hierarchical Endocrinism 3) Follow the Bouncing Hormones 4) Song about endocrine system from “Groovin’ in the Hippocampus”* 1) CONVERSATION STARTER FOR FIGHT …
Creatively Solving the Body’s Problems : An individual or group exercise for understanding and offering a solution for a physiological problem, injury or malfunction. In order to do this exercise in a way that will have lasting meaning for you, answer these questions using what you know from A & P and fields outside of …
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Responding to Mistakes “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett – Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? A new study by Jason Moser at Michigan State University is premised on the fact that there are two distinct reactions to mistakes, …
A Game called ‘Uses For’ This is probably not something Professors can use class time for, however it is a basic example of a brainstorming, creativity technique that might help your students to learn to think outside of the box. If students learn to think more openly and creatively they are likely to make more …
It might seem like organization is anathema to creativity, however, the kind of connections that creative thinkers make often have a basis in the fact that information is organized in their heads. They see patterns, cross barriers and extrapolate because they can see a big picture in which ideas and facts are related and inter-related. …