kreating kinesthetic klassrooms

Kreating Kinesthetic Klassrooms

Using Movement to Teach 8th grade TEKSby Rita Martin and Colton Mullins Texas Middle School, Texarkana, Texas

8.8a Use models such as the Herztsprung-Russell diagram for classification

Klassroom

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Step 1: Explain Temperature and Luminosity Scales on classroom walls

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Step 2: Give each student a colored “star”. Explain how they “plot” their star.

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Step 3: Have students move around to “plot” their star. Stop and tell those that are correct to stand still and then have those that are not correct to try again.

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Step 4: After everyone is in place discuss temperatures and luminosities. Locate Sun.

R Red Giants and Super Giants SUN (Very BrightBlue Giants Not so Hot)(Very Hot and Very Bright) Main Sequence Stars (Medium Temperatures and Brightness)

White Dwarfs (Really Hot Not so Bright)

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Plate Tectonic Shuffle

8.9B relate plate tectonics to the formation of crustal features

Vocabulary---Converge- move together

Diverge- move apart SongTransform- slide past

Subduct- go underneath

Diverge 4 steps away from your shoulder partner

Converge--4 steps back towards your shoulder partner

Transform-- Left 2 steps forward then 2 backRight 2 steps back then 2 forward.

Subduct-- Line on right hold up arm and left line goes underneath to switch places.

Tectonic Shuffle

Down down In the earthIn the earthIn the earth

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When the plates diverge They make new ocean floor

When the plates divergeThey make new ocean floor

When the plates transformThey cause the earth

to quakeWhen the plates subductthey leave volcanoes

in their wake

Got a brand new danceGotta move your muscle

A brand new danceIt’s called tectonic shuffle

Wegner said that the platesMoved slow

----We gonna show you how it goes

Diverge, DivergeDiverge, Diverge

Converge, ConvergeConverge, Converge

Transform, TransformTransform, Transform

Now subduct underneathSubduct underneath

Tectonic Shuffle

Down down In the earthIn the earthIn the earth

4x

When the plates diverge They make new ocean floor

When the plates divergeThey make new ocean floor

When the plates transformThey cause the earth

to quakeWhen the plates subductthey leave volcanoes

in their wake

Got a brand new danceGotta move your muscle

A brand new danceIt’s called tectonic shuffle

Wegner said that the platesMoved slow

----We gonna show you how it goes

Diverge, DivergeDiverge, Diverge

Converge, ConvergeConverge, Converge

Transform, TransformTransform, Transform

Now subduct underneathSubduct underneath

Diverge, DivergeDiverge, Diverge

Converge, ConvergeConverge, Converge

Transform, TransformTransform, Transform

Now subduct underneathSubduct underneath

Tectonic Shuffle

Down down In the earthIn the earthIn the earth

4x

When the plates diverge They make new ocean floor

When the plates divergeThey make new ocean floor

When the plates transformThey cause the earth

to quakeWhen the plates subductthey leave volcanoes

in their wake

Got a brand new danceGotta move your muscle

A brand new danceIt’s called tectonic shuffle

Wegner said that the platesMoved slow

----We gonna show you how it goes

Diverge, DivergeDiverge, Diverge

Converge, ConvergeConverge, Converge

Transform, TransformTransform, Transform

Now subduct underneathSubduct underneath

Diverge, DivergeDiverge, Diverge

Converge, ConvergeConverge, Converge

Transform, TransformTransform, Transform

Now subduct underneathSubduct underneath

Tectonic Shuffle

Down down In the earthIn the earthIn the earth

4x

Periodic Cake Walk8.5C Interpret the arrangement of the Periodic Table, including groups and

periods, to explain how properties are used to classify elements.

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• Draw this piece of thePeriodic Table out on a concrete area using chalk.• Give each student a whiteboard and a marker.• Play some music and havestudents walk around the outside of the drawing.

• When the music stops have them go to a square and then ask themquestions such as How many valence electrons? Metals or non-metals?

Kinesthetic Ideas OnlineKinesthetic astronomyhttp://solarsystem.nasa.gov/docs/Sky_Time.pdf

Atom musical chairshttp://www.middleschoolscience.com/atomicmusicalchairs.pdf

Earth’s layershttp://gk12glacier.bu.edu/wordpress/hayden2012/kinesthetic-mini-lesson-how-layers-of-earth-formed/

Sources

● Physical Activity and its Relation to Learning http://www.wcs.edu/csh/brain.htm

● Kinesthetic & Tactile Learners What does it mean if my child is a kinesthetic or tactile learner? http://child-1st.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/kinesthetic-tactile-learner.html

● Informal Science Centers Promote Engagement and Extension of STEM Education

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http://www.pastem.org/node/40

• IT Students Learning Trends http://uafs.edu/stem-matters/it-students-learning-trends