Chapter 10 Questions

Students can get more control of their own learning if there are student based activities.  When students work in groups they control the atmosphere and what work gets done. The teacher walks around the room to monitor the students progress but usually just let the students take over.

It is important to learn the history of science because students should know how it all came to be. Sometimes when background information is shared on the topic students understand why it is the way it is and wont be so closed minded to it.


Mystery boxes were some of my favorite things to do in school. My teacher had a box filled with all different objects and you got to put your hand it to try and guess what was in it.  Another mystery box we had was to guess how many objects were in the box. We got to move the box in whatever way we wanted too but we were not allowed to look inside. This built my scientific skills because we had to use knowledge we already had on objects and try to figure out what was inside by its shape and size.

Building models allows thee students to go abstract. If a teacher stops them at a drawing then they are only getting a 2D point of view. If they design and build they will be able to see what they are learning in a 3D perspective.