Latest articles by Ramsey Musallam
Online Teaching Reflection: Day -10
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)
Engage: Hero is Called
S I M P L I F Y I N G: New Class Website Approach
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
This week students were challenged to solve this case taken directly from the movie A Few Good Men.
Student Metacognitive Portfolios Using Google Sheets
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)
This school year I have decided to streamline the process, adding instructions, embedded video, and rubrics to the slide template students will work in.
5E Lesson Example: Cellular Respiration w/Crosscutting NGSS Integration
The below lesson is only an outline meant to encourage deeper thinking about the 5E cycle.
What is Robotics? A Curricular Challenge
The goal of the first few weeks is to answer the question "What is Robotics?"
Sparking Curiosity in the Humanities: Data Visualization
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!
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
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
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
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
Often times a powerful video can simultaneously engage AND demotivate students by "inducing" curiosity, while also explaining the content that underlies the phenomena.
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