Mr. Darren Fix was the first teacher's blog that I visited and left comments on. He is a middle school science teacher and his website "ScienceFix" was not only very informative but also very entertaining. His posts were videos in which he explained how using the experiments that he had designed helped to get kids thinking before he presented a new concept. In the first video post that I saw he was explaining the objective of heat energy to his students. I thought that it was very well set up and it was a great introduction to use to explain how heat energy works in different mediums.
The second post that was most recent on his page was explaining the idea of how the scientific method can be used. It was an abstract project that required his students to have to do a little thinking in order to formulate a hypothesis about what the plausible answers could be. To explain a little more, Mr. Fix presented his students with a six sided cube he had put together. On each side was a color, a name, and two numbers. By using the info that they gained from viewing five out of the six sides they then formulated a hypothesis about what could be on the last side.
Both of his posts that I viewed and commented on were very interesting and I myself was entertained at how he could make learning new concepts fun and engaging for his students.
http://www.sciencefix.com/
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