Instructional Delivery

6. Instructional Delivery: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
 

Artifact 1:  Experimental Design Projects
Explanation:   Students are given a set of unique design projects from which they work in teams to create, construct and evaluate their project.  Students use critical thinking, problem solving and teaming skills.  Examples of projects include; egg drop device, water rocket, and a mouse trap car. 

Artifact 2: Project Wetland Collaborative Research Project
Explanation: Project Goal:  Through observation, research, and communication students will learn the many facets to wetlands and realize the important role that wetlands play in our ecosystems.  To assess the quality of water based on physical characteristics, chemical substances, and biological indicators.  To look for relationships and trends among the data collected by all project participants

Artifact 3:  Bugscope Project-  The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms. The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image "bugs" at high magnification. The microscope is remotely controlled in real time from a classroom computer over the Internet using a web browser.
 

Artifact 4:   ATTACK!  What do we know?
Explanation: In light of the threats the United States has recently incurred, bioterrorism is something that is on everyone’s mind. What would happen if another attack did take place? How would people deal with it? What should people do? This lesson is designed to get students to think about these issues. Students work in groups to investigate what could happen in the event of a bioterrorist attack. Each member of the group is a member of society: a microbiologist, an infectious disease expert, and the head of a clean-up crew. The group must work together to research a scenario they are presented with, and determine what each member of society must do to deal with the horrible event. Once they have come up with a plan, each group must present this plan to the class in an effort to education their fellow classmates.