The most important thing I learned this week was probably document based case studies, because I can see these easily being implemented into my classroom for many different concepts throughout the year.
My most challenging experience from this first week was probably not having as much time as I would like to work on our DBCS. I am the type of individual who likes to have a large chunk of time to sit down and work. When I have shorter amounts of time, I feel as though I just get started and in a good groove when I have to stop and move on to something else. Trying to remember where I was at when I return to it and where I want to go is usually a challenge for me.
I definitely see this experience changing my perceptions of teaching science as I plan to implement the DBCS into my curriculum and classroom. I also plan to find as many ways as possible to incorporate BioRenewables into my curriculum. My "energy" unit might be the best place to incorporate the concept of BioRenewables, but I'm not sure how I'm going to do this yet.
The Biochar application has already been done to a part of our garden at the middle school, so it will be fun to incorporate this project into my science curriculum.
I'm looking forward to more "thinking out of the box" in the next two weeks!!
Very creative blog title. I also really liked the DBCS and can see myself using it in my classes, although it was a lot of work! Obviously we are further along in our experience now then when you posted this, but I can remember when I first got really excited about all of the biorenewable, and especially the biochar research they are doing here at ISU. I called my brother and told him all about it. I think we have gained a lot of new information and skills to take back to our classes next year.
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