Opening Question:

What is one activity that you do / have done / have seen done where students are engaged in the learning process?

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Definitions of Blended Learning:

Heather Staker, Innosight Institute: “Blended learning is any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control overtime, place, path, and/or pace.”

Station-rotation model, KIPP LA Empower Academy

Flex model, San Francisco Flex Academy

From: “Classifying K-12 Blended Learning”, Heather Staker and Michael B. Horn, Innosight Institute, 2012

Definitions of Blended Learning:

Catlin Tucker, teacher and blogger: “…A formal education program in which a student is engaged in active learning at least in part online where they have some control over the time, place, and/or pace and in part at a brick and mortar location away from home.” 

What is Blended Learning?

Teacher

expertise

Students’ innate curiosity

F2F environment

Online Tools

Patience / open-

mindedness

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Teacher inputs:

Content-specific

knowledge

Role-modeling

Feedback and

Assessment

Social Inputs:

Parental

knowledge

Peer knowledge

Role -modeling

Social media

Other media

Foundational Inputs:

Biological factorsPsychological factors

Knowledge through reflection

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14. You find a desperate chemistry teacher who is willing to buy aqueous solutions of NaOH for $5 a liter, as long as the solution has a pH of at least 10.50 (more basic is ok, less basic is not). You have 225 mL of NaOH solution with a pH of 12.10, and access to free water and a stirring rod. a) How much water do you add to your original base solution to maximize your profits? b) What is the most money you can hope to make in this scenario? 15. Alfie mixes equal volumes of two LiOH solutions, one with pH = 8.0 and the other with pH = 11.0. What is the pH of the resulting solution?16. Find the pH of a solution made by adding 55.0 mL of 0.0030 M HCl to 9.0 mL of 0.020 M HNO3.17. How many grams of Ba(OH)2 are needed to make 395 mL of pH 10.38 solution?18. HF is a poisonous weak acid that has historically been used to etch glass. It has a Ka= 7.2 x 10-4. What is the pH of a 0.020 M solution of HF?

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What did you see in the video that is similar to what you might see in a brick-and-mortar classroom assignment?

What did you see that is different?

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Light and Vision

Friction

Circular Motion

Work, Energy, and Power

Angular Momentu

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Students learn about light, reflection, and refraction by

conducting an analysis of different safety mirrors and

reflectors

Students analyze different tire

treads and skid marks to learn about friction.

Students learn about circular motion by building a wheel

Students learn about work, energy, and power through an in-depth

examination of and construction of a bicycle drivetrain.

Students learn about angular momentum and how it pertains

to braking.

Inquiry and Experimentation: How much more energy must a cyclist exert if she rides 300m with two stop signs than a cyclist riding the same distance in the same amount of time with no stop signs?http://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03_26/

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Project Learning:What factors make bicycling accidents more likely at certain intersections than others? Students can analyze electronic data and engineer a bicycling safety device based on their analysis.

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Service Learning:Students can devise service projects: building bicycles from spare parts, and donating them to local bike charities; or teaching bicycle maintenance to other students.

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