@gunsnrosesgirl3 I’ve been teaching science for over 20 years. I think students would completely tune out if a teacher stood in front of the class doing this.
@WAMiddleSchool Enjoying listening to my students trying to figure out the pattern for this set of cards & describe the missing piece - our introduction to the layout of the periodic table of elements!
I just told an 8th grade class that they worked really well today and that I was proud of them. A student replied that it made him really happy to hear that. I clearly need to compliment my students more often.
@wams As we incorporate The Martian into 8th grade science, we turn our metric measurement lab into a space mission prep with beaker spacecraft and Lego astronauts.