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 SMART
Leadership for Teachers - Page 2
"Hey, what’s the brown stuff in the center of the cross-section?"
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Not all tree cookies are round. Here discussion focuses on the
causes of irregularities—disease, drought, fire, insects, growing on
a slope, or a dead branch.
This is one of the mysteries that encourages detective work and
inference making.
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Dr. Vickie Harry presents an overview of science and math process
skills and explains forthcoming investigations and their analyses.
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This adjoining room is set up for "round robin" stations, including
two twin science/math activities per table. Participants, in groups
of two, will move among tables (activities) of their choice,
completing them and doing an analysis for math/science process
skills.
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Dr. Smith and Dr. Harry give last-minute instructions before SMART
participants select and investigate the combined math/science
activities.
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Here participants test surface tension of water, predicting,
investigating, counting, and recording the number of water drops
placed on a penny.
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Participants learn first-hand about the powerful cohesive forces
that bind water molecules.
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Investigating magnets is fun!
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Participants observe, predict, and count the numbers of small
bubbles they can blow.
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Measurement of human body parts has participants finding those parts
that have similar measurements.
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Lynn takes the measure of Carla.
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