Student connections to science by KD Davenport https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25 en-us 2022-03-16 15:37:22 UTC 2022-03-16 16:56:39 UTC hello@padlet.com My 9th grade Biology students came with a developed idea of a process called "evolution" that came from Pokemon. kdavenport5 https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098311090 2022-03-16 15:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098311090 students making sense of impulse... (increasing the time of impact leads to a decrease in force) by relating it to water balloon and egg tosses... describing how they need to move their hands with the water balloon or egg to slow it down when catching it rather that just stopping it quickly https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098428012 2022-03-16 16:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098428012 Combustion Reaction mphardisky https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455848 Students connected car's to combustion of fuel. Then, linked it to different fuels. ]]> 2022-03-16 16:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455848 physics https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455975 inertia- getting tossed around while riding the bus]]> 2022-03-16 16:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455975 https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455988 When we do exothermic and endothermic reactions, students always bring up the heat packs and ice packs that you break and use.]]> 2022-03-16 16:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098455988 A student sent me a video on different types of bombs after nuclear chemistry https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098456512 2022-03-16 16:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098456512 students making sense of why some of them could taste PTC and some could not https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098456698 2022-03-16 16:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098456698 when we talk about density, students usually don't know the word or definition, but they do have an experiential sense of small things that are heavy and large things that are light and that the material that something is made of affects its mass https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098457591 2022-03-16 16:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098457591 https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098457972 When talking about types of correlation in data, a student had an "aha" moment with negative correlation. He said he notices he gets less work done when he sits with more friends. He reasoned that he can only sit with one friend so his grade doesn't go too low. ]]> 2022-03-16 16:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098457972 https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458052 in our unit on stoichiometry students made connections to the units and quantities used in the recipes.    

]]> 2022-03-16 16:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458052 Making up their own non-random mating dance https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458070 2022-03-16 16:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458070 environmental science https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458128 water treatment - all the water they drink went down the drain somewhere recently]]> 2022-03-16 16:55:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458128 Connecting the concepts of effusion & diffusion of gases to everyday life. https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458176 2022-03-16 16:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458176 When we did a water inquiry activity. We Put 3 liquids into different jars and the kids could do was make observations and they had to guess which jar contained water. Connection to properties of water. https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458182 2022-03-16 16:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458182 Environmental influence of genetics on skin color, we have a large population of students from various countries https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458411 2022-03-16 16:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458411 DNA (Mutations) An environmental mutagen could cause an error in DNA https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458646 2022-03-16 16:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458646 A student sent me a video of why spongebob is adopted, based on the phenotypes of his parents and the probability of spongebob having those traits. https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458683 2022-03-16 16:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098458683 One of students who is a dad, while we are learning heterozygous crosses, and how 25% of the 'grandkids' pea plants look like Grandma pea plant.. and my student says- "Is that why my daughter looks so much like my mom" https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098459628 2022-03-16 16:56:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kdavenport5/en25/wish/2098459628