Tag: project-based learning
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A History of This Research – Part 1: The Accidental Project
I started teaching in 1990 at a start-up school in the Sierra Nevada Mountains called Tioga High School. It was located near the town of Groveland on the Highway 120 entrance to Yosemite National Park. The school site was not yet ready when we began that fall, so we first taught out of a portable…
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Exploring the Solar System: A Graphic Novel Sample Project
Over many years of teaching students how to plan and build excellent projects, I have found that most have difficulty in the crucial planning phase. They often go with the first project approach that comes to mind and jump into creating it without spending enough time and effort to carefully plan out the scope and…
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Results of the Pilot Contest
As we approached the fall of 2023, I had hoped to have my dissertation proposal ready to go and to gain approval before our first Science Communication competition began, but that was not to be. I was a bit over-optimistic on how long it would take me to wrestle through the theoretical and practical implementation…
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A Poster Session at the UCET Conference
On March 14 -15 I presented several sessions at the Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) conference held at the Utah Valley Convention Center. I also presented a similar theme at the Blended Learning Educators Conference (BLEC) at Juan Diego High School on March 9. As I am approaching the time when I will start…
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Why Creativity is Essential in Science
Welcome to this website! I am David V. Black and this site is dedicated to teaching creativity in science classes. It will host a series of links to videos I am posting on my YouTube channel on creativity and science education, project-based learning, and using browser-based media design software for student created science content. I…
The Creative Science Classroom 