Monday, February 2, 2009

3 TPACK Questions

In our science lesson, the content we decided to focus on is from the 5th grade Utah state CORE. We focused on the physical changes of matter and how temperature affects the physical changes of matter from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

The pedagogy we used in our experiment included skills like observing, predicting, classifying, measuring, acquiring and processing data, constructing hypotheses, and analyzing data. These were all very fitting for our content because we needed to observe the changes as we predicted what would happen with the states of matter. We then measured the temperature as these changes became apparent.

We used the digital probes to help us with the content and pedagogy of the lesson. This technology made measuring accurately quick and easy. The technology was also very helpful because it measured the temperature second by second as the physical changes of matter took place. It also acquired the data and graphed the relationship between physical changes in matter and temperature by the second. We could also pause the probe and ask for predictions while using the technology of the probes. This was an amazing tool and it really brought the content and pedagogy together nicely.

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