How I will incorporate my Kenan externship into my curriculum….

I have thought of ways in which I can incorporate my externship at the museum into my curriculum. In the fall, I will be teaching Common Cor Math 7 Plus and Math I. The seventh grade curriculum has two units dealing with ratios, proportions, and slope. I have already used proportions and ratios when creating mixtures. The data that is obtained from my soil experiment could be graphed and analyzed statistically.
There is a great deal of math used in a laboratory setting. Math is used to accurately measure out solitons and reagents. It is used when calibrating pipettes. I used scale and scale factor today when preparing my DNA sample for PCR. I used graphing when analyzing the strength of my DNA sample. My team talked with Dr. Urban about other ways to scale our soil project to our classrooms. We lack all of the fancy equipment from the Genomics lab at the Science Museum, we could have our students collect soil samples and send the in to the Genomics lab for analysis. My students could then Skype or video conference with my mentors, as the explained the process of analyzing the samples. My students could analyze real world problems dealing with changes in the concentrations of the solutions used(proportions) and graphing the data.

Amy and Laura’s classes will collect soil samples from their homes. They will also collect  dandelions and plant the dandelions in the soil samples after sterilizing them. The samples will be sent to Dr. Stevens for analysis. My students will then create graphs and use other statistical measures to analyze the data.

 

2 thoughts on “How I will incorporate my Kenan externship into my curriculum….

  1. I totally know what you mean about the lab having so many math connections. Over in our Paleo lab we are using math left and right. Even though we are all science teachers we will be having the students graph and analyze their data. I am so glad you have so many math connections already. Good Luck!!

  2. I agree Arthrina, there is a lot of math in our projects, and it’s a great way connect math and science together. We also plan to incorporate math within our science lessons, as we are collecting data and creating graphs. That way students can well see how to apply math in the real world and when doing science. In the real world, mostly all subject areas are incorporated in scientific research.

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