Online Teaching Reflection: Day -10 By Ramsey Musallam Transitioning each course to an online version that is meaningful, effective, and leverages the online learning medium is proving to be a very daunting task.
5E / Hero's Journey Example: Stoichiometry (Reactions as Recipes) By Ramsey Musallam Engage: Hero is Called
Engineering for Social Good Project #1: Empowering Fine Motor Control Using "Drawdio" By Ramsey Musallam
S I M P L I F Y I N G: New Class Website Approach By Ramsey Musallam I am going to be transitioning all of my class websites from traditional Google Sites to simple Google Documents.
3 Things I'm Proud of This Week: Explosive Disposal. A Few Good Men By Ramsey Musallam This week students were challenged to solve this case taken directly from the movie A Few Good Men.
Student Metacognitive Portfolios Using Google Sheets By Ramsey Musallam Students keep track of their own progress on standards, while I keep track of progress on a paper sheet, and update quarterly.
Google Slides for "Lab Reports" (update) By Ramsey Musallam This school year I have decided to streamline the process, adding instructions, embedded video, and rubrics to the slide template students will work in.
The Never-Ending Quest for a Simplified SBG System! By Ramsey Musallam I think I'm on to something this year!
5E Lesson Example: Cellular Respiration w/Crosscutting NGSS Integration By Ramsey Musallam The below lesson is only an outline meant to encourage deeper thinking about the 5E cycle.
What is Robotics? A Curricular Challenge By Ramsey Musallam The goal of the first few weeks is to answer the question "What is Robotics?"
Sparking Curiosity in the Humanities: Data Visualization By Ramsey Musallam By finding a visualization, downloading it, removing specific information (titles, legends, keys, etc.) and displaying it to students, questions emerge.
Revised 5E-Hero's Journey Lesson Planning Template! By Ramsey Musallam I have written to annoying lengths about my love for the connection between the 5E Inquiry Learning Cycle and Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey.
New Grading Experiment: Student Tracking for Enhanced Metacognition By Ramsey Musallam It does me no good as an educator to engage in debates around the efficacy of grading.
Google Slides Lab Report: A Simple, Tangible, Reasonable Solution By Ramsey Musallam My final "stack of papers" to grade was a shared folder full with our final lab practical reports: a group experiment where students determined the optimal H2-O2 ratio to fill a 2L bottle fo for maximum product upon ignition.
5 Levels of Difficulty Videos: Alternative Assessment Inspiration By Ramsey Musallam It reminded me how explaining a difficult concept to a novice and expert audience simultaneously requires deep conceptual knowledge, and how listening to such an explanation helps to build simultaneous conceptual and mechanical knowledge of a concept.
Editing Videos for Involuntary Curiosity: 3 Chemistry Examples By Ramsey Musallam Often times a powerful video can simultaneously engage AND demotivate students by "inducing" curiosity, while also explaining the content that underlies the phenomena.
Google Science Fair as my Biology Final Exam By Ramsey Musallam The Google Science Fair designed in such a way that students are inspired to turn their thoughts and ideas into a format that address a gap in the world, and thus, change it!
