Science and Learning Differences
Strategies for teaching Science
www.nsta.org - National Science Teachers Association
Students with learning disabilities may lack basic study strategies in reading, note taking, developing vocabulary, organizing materials, writing, and other study skills. The following instruction strategies may benefit these students:
Consider making available, in the classroom or learning support center, emerging assistive technologies such as text-to-speech screen readers, which are designed to assist students with difficulties decoding or attending to written text. Even with suggestions such as these, LD students may need direct monitoring of their progress in keeping organized and applying effective study skills. Learning is maximized when instruction and assessment are based on explicit objectives.
Students with learning disabilities may lack basic study strategies in reading, note taking, developing vocabulary, organizing materials, writing, and other study skills. The following instruction strategies may benefit these students:
- Teach and model reading and study strategies for science textbooks.
- Teach effective ways to organize, revise, and review notes.
- Teach and model vocabulary review techniques.
Consider making available, in the classroom or learning support center, emerging assistive technologies such as text-to-speech screen readers, which are designed to assist students with difficulties decoding or attending to written text. Even with suggestions such as these, LD students may need direct monitoring of their progress in keeping organized and applying effective study skills. Learning is maximized when instruction and assessment are based on explicit objectives.
Science and Art
Motivating active learning of biochemistry through artistic representation of scientific concepts (2013)
This article states that first-year students often feel discouraged, especially with courses that require complex thinking and involve establishing relations between different subjects such as biochemistry. However, implications used in this article could also work for teaching sciences in high school as the article states that research has shown that student-centred pedagogy can achieve motivation and improve learning. Three Art and Biochemistry sessions were included in the first-year programme of medicine students. The results found from this research suggested that Art & Biochemistry sessions were successful as an approach to motivate students, and were also perceived as helpful to the understanding and learning of biochemistry. This report supports a positive relationship between art and science in enhancing self-learning and could be easily applied to other subjects and disciplines. |
Art Lessons and Science
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Capturing Light: The Science of Photography
Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.
Corrosion and Understanding Bronze Material
Students study an ancient bronze statue, analyze its pose, and discover how conservators remove and prevent corrosion. They learn that the bronze used to make this sculpture is an alloy of copper and tin with small amounts of antimony, lead, iron, silver, nickel, and cobalt. They use the periodic table to research the chemical formulas of compounds used to make bronze. After learning about oxidation-reduction reactions that occurred in the statue, students speculate about the conservation techniques needed to conserve the bronze sculpture.
Insect Anatomy and Illustration
Students study insects depicted in a seventeenth-century drawing. They research winged insects, identifying unique characteristics and those common to all insects. Students closely observe winged insects and create detailed drawings of wings.
- Sara Gardiner
Capturing Light: The Science of Photography
Students create and use pinhole cameras to understand how artists use and manipulate light to capture images in photographs. They shoot and develop photographs made with pinhole cameras. They compare and contrast a nineteenth-century image, photographs taken with a pinhole camera, and pictures created with a digital camera or camera phone.
Corrosion and Understanding Bronze Material
Students study an ancient bronze statue, analyze its pose, and discover how conservators remove and prevent corrosion. They learn that the bronze used to make this sculpture is an alloy of copper and tin with small amounts of antimony, lead, iron, silver, nickel, and cobalt. They use the periodic table to research the chemical formulas of compounds used to make bronze. After learning about oxidation-reduction reactions that occurred in the statue, students speculate about the conservation techniques needed to conserve the bronze sculpture.
Insect Anatomy and Illustration
Students study insects depicted in a seventeenth-century drawing. They research winged insects, identifying unique characteristics and those common to all insects. Students closely observe winged insects and create detailed drawings of wings.
- Sara Gardiner