scholarly journals A hands‐on introduction to medical physics and radiation therapy for middle school students

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 148-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Fagerstrom ◽  
Wendy Gao ◽  
Gene E. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Hands On

The Arcs of Archaeology

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 688-693
Author(s):  
Bonnie S. Spence
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Real World ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hands On ◽  
New Ideas

For the past several years, i have sought out opportunities outside mathematics for personal enrichment and enjoyment. These experiences have caused me to become more aware of the connections between mathematics and other areas. As a result, I have begun developing lessons to show my students how mathematics is used in the real world. One summer I joined another teacher and twelve middle school students and decided to brave the eighteen-hour drive from Oklahoma to the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Co1tez, Colorado. The mathematical lesson discussed in this article emerged from one week of learning about the Anasazi culture and experiencing hands-on archaeology. Throughout the years, this lesson has been revised and expanded as both students and experience have given me new ideas.

Fishy Fun under the Sun

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Moore ◽  
Maria C. Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
The Sun ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ratio And Proportion ◽  
Hands On ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Integrate Science

MY FAVORITE SEQUENCE OF LESSONS involves fun and creative activities that are both interesting and accessible to middle school students. The activities described in this article give a teacher one week's worth of lessons that allow geometry and measurement as well as ratio and proportion to be addressed in a cooperative learning environment. These lessons integrate science and mathematics with hands-on exploration using manipulatives.

CHANGE: A Place-Based Curriculum for Understanding Climate Change at Storm Peak Laboratory, Colorado

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 909-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gannet Hallar ◽  
Ian B. McCubbin ◽  
Jennifer M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Independent Evaluation ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Classroom Lesson

Curriculum in High Altitude Environments for Teaching Global Climate Change Education (CHANGE) uses place-based education to teach middle school students about meteorology and climate as a basis to improve climate science literacy. The curriculum provides in-school and out-of-school instruction and connects students with scientists at Storm Peak Laboratory, a high-elevation atmospheric research facility above Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Following an initial 2-h classroom lesson, students record their own measurements of temperature, pressure, wind speed, and particle concentrations while traveling up the mountain to Storm Peak Laboratory. After returning to the classroom, students graph these data and analyze their results. Evaluation of this program showed that students improved their knowledge of key concepts pertaining to climate literacy. The hands-on, place-based format of CHANGE can be used as a model for middle school students in alpine communities to teach lessons in weather and climate and can be further refined by improved lesson plans, increased feedback to students, and an independent evaluation.

GUPPIE program — A hands-on STEM learning experience for middle school students

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeedeh Ziaeefard ◽  
Brian R. Page ◽  
Lauren Knop ◽  
Guilherme A. Ribeiro ◽  
Michele Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Stem Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Hands On

scholarly journals MedStart: A Hands‐on Anatomical Experience for Middle School Students

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M Laitman ◽  
Ariana Witkin ◽  
Amar Parikh ◽  
Anne Armstrong ◽  
Samantha Zuckerman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Hands On

3-D Graphing, Contour Graphs, Topographical Maps, and Matrices Using Spreadsheets

1999 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174
Author(s):  
Louis Feicht
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Hands On ◽  
College Calculus ◽  
Topographical Maps

Modern spreadsheets can make powerful mathematical concepts accessible to students at a younger age than ever before. Contours and three–dimensional graphing are topics that were previously reserved until well into the first year of college calculus. Three–dimensional graphing now can be successfully taught to middle school students with the assistance of a computer spreadsheet. This combination of the computer with hands-on activity exposes students to numerical and graphical representations of data on the same spreadsheet “page” and forces them to make connections between the two forms of data.

Teacher to Teacher: Letting Your Students “Fly” in the Classroom

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 348-349
Author(s):  
Thomas Adams
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Cooperative Groups ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Real Action

Teachers are always looking for new ways to help their students explore mathematical concepts. Many worthwhile activities use cooperative groups and hands-on learning, but few involve any real action. This article presents an activity for middle school students that really moves-in fact, it flies!

The Coat Check Problem: A S(t)imulating Lesson

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
David L. Pagni
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
California State University ◽  
College Preparatory ◽  
State University ◽  
School Students ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Hands On

California State University, Fullerton, partnered with local schools to offer a special program to introduce middle school students to a college campus and encourage future enrollment in college preparatory classes. As part of that program, I was asked to present a one-hour mathematics lesson to various groups of students. I decided to teach a lesson on probability because it offers hands-on experience for students and because middle school students should be able to “understand and apply basic concepts of probability” (NCTM 2000, p. 248). Based on previous teaching experience as well as work with over 300 students (10 groups of 30) who visited our campus, I found that middle school students have a good sense of the concept of the probability of an event. Many students have had experience simulating experiments by repeatedly tossing a coin, rolling a number cube, or drawing a chip from a bag. Furthermore, they can write probabilities for events, such as “get a tail”; “roll a 3”; or “draw a green chip” from a bag containing three green chips and two white chips, respectively. With this in mind, I introduced the Coat Check problem to build on that knowledge and introduce middle school students to a more complex form of simulation to estimate probabilities. In this article, I will share my methods and results so that middle school mathematics teachers can replicate the lesson.

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