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Jul-09-23 | Gizmo: Water Pollution |
Jul-09-23 | 5 Whys |
Jul-09-23 | Sediment Plumes in The Hudson River |
Jul-09-23 | Combined Sewage Overflow |
Added July 09, 2023 at 11:20am
by Marina Lombardo
Title: Gizmo: Water Pollution
Added July 09, 2023 at 12:07pm
by Marina Lombardo
Title: 5 Whys
Added July 09, 2023 at 12:20pm
by Marina Lombardo
Title: Sediment Plumes in The Hudson River
Added July 09, 2023 at 12:26pm
by Marina Lombardo
Title: Combined Sewage Overflow
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How do you think this visual of watersheds could support the development of other literacy skills?
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You mention that you have a background in environmental sciences and have also spent time studying the development of watersheds in your area. Therefore, you have a unique understanding of the importance of watersheds and their role in the environment. You might consider how this visual of watersheds could support literacy skills like research, inquiry, and problem-solving. For instance, by using this visual of watersheds you could easily identify what dishes of water make up a watershed, how the land is shaped, and what the impact of watersheds has on the environment. This could be useful to you in researching watersheds or understanding the development of watersheds in your area. Additionally, you might consider how this visual could help foster collaboration with other students. It could be used to encourage dialogue about and problem-solving around environmental issues in your area.
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How might this Gizmo online simulation deepen a student’s understanding of a problem?
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This website gives real world examples which is amazing to make students imagine scenarios and understand pollution. Students don’t need to just read textbooks to understand. There are SO MANY TOOLS WE CAN USE!
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How could this strategy be used to support learners to think critically about problems?
How could this strategy be used to help build questioning skills?
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You are a teacher aiming to promote, develop, and cultivate critical thinking and questioning skills in your students. One way to achieve this aim is to employ the strategies of Taiichi Ohno, a Japanese industrial engineer who contributed to the development of the Toyota Production System. His concepts focused on achieving the highest quality and productivity while minimizing waste and maintaining the highest levels of customer service. One strategy he believed in is a process called “Zero Defects”. This means checking for errors in and reevaluating each step of a process to ensure that no mistakes are going unchecked.
This strategy of zero defects can be used to foster critical thinking and questioning skills in your students. By evaluating each step of a process and asking questions like, “what if something is wrong?” or “how could this step be improved?” your students can be encouraged to think critically about the problem at hand. Additionally, asking questions that help students identify the potential consequences of various solutions can help to test the potential alternatives for solving the problem, and ultimately lead students to make more informed decisions. By challenging them to examine their processes more closely and consider potential errors, zero defects can be an effective tool for helping students to hone their questioning and critical thinking skills.
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The 5 Why’s can help students identify the underlying causes of an issue. In the text, the writer made several changes that impacted their perspective. By using the 5 Why’s, readers can explore the implications of those changes and uncover deeper motivations. This strategy can help students think critically about problems, exploring the multiple causes, perspectives, and impacts of an issue. It can also help build questioning skills, systematically uncovering the answers to “why?” multiple times to understand a problem more deeply.
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The root cause is something we should always be looking for or the problem will continue. This is great to teach our students.
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The one example does not help me understand how to get to the root cause.
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This strategy can help build questioning skills by having them think critically on multiple aspects of whatever they are working on.
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How could a series of before and after photographs support students in getting closer to the root cause of a problem?
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How can diagrams provide support to students who are researching a problem?
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Break the problem down into segments or digestible parts?
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I especially love them when others can build upon the previous answer/research and continue to ask even more why’s
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