Final Post of Inquiry 1 :(

What I learned:

• There is a place for fun in the Math classroom
• Inquiry is about:
• giving students choice
• asking questions
• allowing students to do the work they are interested in
• "Country Life" by the Watersons

New ideas and insights I take away:

• "disembodied" learning does not promote real learning
• The garden can be a great place for a math classroom
• STEAM learning can have advantages for many students
• There are so many applications of STEAM in the STEM classroom
• Art + Math
• Dance + Math
• Theatre + Physics
• Nature + Math/Physics
• Art + Astronomy
• Math + Astronomy
• Math + Seasons
• Math + Physics 
• Film + Math/Physics
• Storytelling + STEM

Suggestions for improvement:

• Maybe if the presentations were spread over 3 days instead of 2 they felt a bit rushed
• A little bit more feedback on the blog posts might have helped

Something Neat...

 

Exit Slip 12/2/2021

From today's class on permutations, I think I learned a lot about how to teach through the arts. I found that it was relevant to my project on STEAM integrated education. I resonated most with the poetry (word) permutations because I saw many cross-curricular elements including:

• Teaching adjective order
• Teaching homophones, homonyms, and homographs
• Teaching musical notes
• Dance
• Drama
  
• Chemistry (meth, eth, prop, but, pent)

It should become apparent from my inquiry project why I believe that integrated teaching is useful and important. I am always looking for more cross-curricular elements to classes and this is a great one.

I have been looking for more examples of this and I found this really cool youtube video that I suggest looking at: https://youtu.be/26e4cnTUym8