Engaging Students with Technology

Think outside the box with technology. There are 2 ideas here – both from high school teachers. 1) The following information comes from a high school language teacher in England.  Mr. Picardo is also a consultant and speaker who educates educators on using technology to enhance education.  More about him and his endeavors can be …

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Using Movement and Music to teach A&P

Movement & Music · Create accompanying movement for pathways or processes.  Whenever you describe a movement – for example the alternate beating of atria and ventricles – try and demonstrate the movement yourself using your hands or other body part.  Challenge students to come up with a movement that is representative.  Have them all mimic …

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Involve Literature and Movies in Anatomy & Physiology

Involving literature / movies * Have students read The Fantastic Voyage (or watch the movie) and look for  accuracies and/or mistakes about what the voyagers encounter while traveling in their miniaturized submarine through the human body. * Have students add to the book / movie by writing a new scene wherein the characters encounter something …

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Creative Writing Suggestions to Enhance Study of A&P

Creative Writing suggestions: Helping students to see the stories involved in A&P can increase interest. Have your students try the following ideas: · Write an advertisement for a body part / physiological pathway or process: film or present it live. · Write a limerick about parts or function. · Present a disease process from the …

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Strategies for Encouraging Students to Make New Connections

When students make connections between facts, ideas, pathways, processes, styles, fields of study or problems, they are more likely to: remember what they’ve thought about in making that connection; be engaged by the process and think some more; seek further information or connections. I don’t have evidence for this beyond personal experience as a teacher …

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