Science at Hogwarts

Autor/in	Beaton, Tisha
Titel	Science at Hogwarts
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 43 (2006) 6, S.48-51 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Unterricht; Lehrer; Grade 6; Science Activities; Biological Sciences; Science Instruction; Elementary School Science; Field Studies; Adolescent Literature; Childrens Literature; Teaching Methods; Portfolio Assessment; Scoring Rubrics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lesson concept; Instruction; Unterrichtsentwurf; Unterrichtsprozess; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrerin; Lehrende; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Abwasserbiologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Praxisforschung; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Portfoliobeurteilung; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen
Abstract	Reading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" aloud to her sixth-grade students inspired this author to create a mathematics activity based on budgeting for school supplies for Hogwarts School. In that lesson, each student was assigned a name from the Hogwarts School roster and allotted a different dollar amount for his/her budget. Students loved the Harry Potter context of the problem, and they connected with both the situation and the mathematics concepts involved in the budgeting process. Students' enthusiasm for that activity led the author to connect their upcoming study of fungi to Harry Potter to build on their excitement. Although the references to Harry Potter in the study were not as direct as in the contextualized mathematics problems, the study allowed students to continue the fantasy that they were classmates of Harry's while exploring what was ordinarily a part of their sixth-grade curriculum. In this article, the author presents a description of the fungi study. (Contains 2 figures, 6 resources and 1 online resource.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10