Option 6: mind games -- turning on the brain ?


Use the Water Maker or The Egg in the Bottle or some other discrepant event to teach a lesson to at least three children.

Submit a lesson plan written like those in G-6, and report student reactions and understanding and misunderstandings of the phenomena.

Read these articles and react to their prose in light of your experiences with your mini-discrepant event lesson.


reading 1 1994: a-read-me-first

some cautious words from a researcher tried to find out about DE and brain functioning

reading 2
1989: it's the real thing - the scientific method --- halpin & coffey-swab -- s&c -- jan

reading 3
1991: discrepant events --- leyden -- teaching k8 --- feb

reading 4
1994: egg & i --- leyden -- teaching k8 -

reading 5
1985: the strange silo --- leyden -- s&C -- oct

reading 6
1987: discrepant events: why they fascinate --- shrigley -- s&c --- may

reading 7
1989: discrepant events: what happens to those who watch --- thompson -- ssm --- jan

reading 8
1990: discrepant events: turn on turned off students --- SuperScience --- may

reading 9
1989: what's wrong with this picture -- beaver & cheney -- s&c --- jan

reading 10
1978: did'ja ever wonder ? --- a chapter from leyden's book: teaching science 5 to 9 --- silver burdett

reading 11
1985: the great string drop --- leyden -- s&c --- oct

reading 12
1973: conflict & inquiry --- a chapter from rowe's book: teaching science as continuous inquiry --- mcgraw-hill

reading 13
1995: discrepant event demonstrations --- wright & govidarajan --- the science teacher --- jan


on my own

find an article on 'brain functioning' -- looking for key words like the workings of the RAS -- reticular activating system; thalamus; limic system.

summarize and react to this paper.

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