using technology to ignite student interest in junior high science

Using Technology to Ignite Student Interest in Junior High ScienceDave Dale and Rhonda Jessen

About us• Dave Dale - SPED, Science and Math teacher

• ddale@chinooksedge.ab.ca• Twitter: @car120c• MrDale.edublogs.org

• Rhonda Jessen – Computer, Media, Science and French teacher• rjessen@chinooksedge.ab.ca• Twitter: @rljessen• MsJsScience8.wikisspaces.com• rjessen.edublogs.org• jessenscience.edublogs.org

• You can get a copy of this presentation, the Smart NoteBook examples and the list of links at http://rjessen.edublogs.org/?p=163

SmartBoards• Presentations to introduce/teach concepts• Links to movies, documents, websites• Activities: label parts, make a working heart,

make a circuit• Demonstrations: glasses, body systems• Assessment: Question sets (can be used with

Senteos or without)• Student generated presentations

Games• Review Jeopardy (PowerPoint)• Hollywood Squares

Information, Simulations and Games• Links

Communication• Blogs

• www.mrkeenan.com and mrkeenan.wordpress.com

• Connect with experts• Skype in the Classroom• Video Conferences – NASA etc.• Networking with experts or other classes• fcp11-3.flatclassroomproject.org

• Twitter nyti.ms/nxiiML • #SciChat• #EdChat• #EdTech

• Social Media• Edmodo.com• Moodle• Google docs

Personal Media Devices• Note taking• Research, answering questions that come up in

class• Back channeling• Myth Busting (using cell phones to pop corn or

cook an egg)

Low Tech

Camera Obscura

Digital Pinhole Camera

Hands-on Activities and Projects

• Science in a Crate www.sciencealberta.org/educators• Central Alberta Science Network activity boxes casciencenet.ca•

Hands-on Activity• Variables in Science and

shelleywright.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/inquiry-learning-this-isnt-scary-at-all

Sharing

• Dave Dale• ddale@chinooksedge.ab.ca• Twitter: @car120c•MrDale.edublogs.org

• Rhonda Jessen• rjessen@chinooksedge.ab.ca• Twitter: @rljessen•MsJsScience8.wikisspaces.com• rjessen.edublogs.org• jessenscience.edublogs.org

• You can get a copy of this presentation, the Smart NoteBook examples and the list of links at http://rjessen.edublogs.org/?p=163