This week, we read an article titled "Activitymania" which is about hands on activities not always being a great way to teach lessons if they are not purposeful or deepen learning. In my future classroom, I need to ensure that they are purposeful, deepen understanding, and align with learning goals. Hands-on learning not always equals to effective learning and without structure and clear outcomes, activities can become busy work rather than meaningful exploration.
This week we also uploaded videos that investigate plate tectonics and convection currents. In my video, I had a glass of hot and cold water. I dropped red and blue food coloring to show how the different in temperates can cause the droplets to rise or stay still.
We also worked in groups in our labs to create different types of "rocks". We did this by using different colored starbursts and using a torch to melt them together. Two different colored + pressure = sedimentary. Igneous= change in melting amount and change of cooling method. Metamorphic= NOT melted and different amount of pressure. Below is some of the "rocks" we created. We tried warming them up in different ways such as directly on the candy or through a foil.
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