The teacher's role in a student-centered project is to plan, organize, and provide resources while allowing students ownership over their work. The teacher needs to know when to guide students with questions versus taking direct control. Assessing students involves observing their work, evaluating progress, and facilitating reflection. Challenges may include keeping all students engaged throughout the long-term project and ensuring there are enough materials and equipment for the entire class.

1. 1) What are some topics in your
discipline that align well with the
“real world”?

2. Biology
• Nutrition (health and medicine),
• photosynthisis (farming and agriculture and
environmental),
• human body (medicine and health),
• forensics (law in forcement), genetics (law
inforcment,used in modern medicine),
• ecology (farming, conversation),

3. Earth Science
• Ecology( farming, conservation),
Stratifcation(oil and exploration),
meteorology( daily weather), astonomy(NASA
exploration)

4. 2) How are skills learned in your
classroom useful outside your
classroom?

5. awarness)
nutrition (human body, social issues, obesity/ eating disorder,
carcinogens in food and how it effects the body)
Ecology (agriculture, how conservations of the animal and plants
can change our world, (why we are concerned with saving our
environment and the green movement)
Genetics (traits to find out the traits that might be dominant in
family/ friend)
Meterology- (understand the weather)
astronomy (how to find the constilations)
stratification (for oil and gas exploration)
carcinogens causes cancer, etc, how it impacts the body
it does tie it all together
agriculture and environment conservation
how agriculture ties into conservation-
weather patterns and global warming
what to wear outside everyday
genetics and agriculture, transgenesis and genetically modifying
foods, etc

7. 3) What are ways to bring new
forms of technology (not just
PowerPoints and Tvs) into the
classroom for students’ used

8. Skype to get experts into the classroom.
Mind maps to organize their thoughts and ideas.
Smart board also is a great tool to use everyday.
Websites like NASA , usgs, census and other
government web sites to get good data.
The scientific method, like the experiment he was
talking about.
Clickers to have classroom votes and answers in an
anonymous way.
You tube also has ways to show experiments that your
classroom can not do.
3d programs with holograms...
And of course we cannot forget, second life.

10. 4)What are topics in your discipline
that could be weaved together in a
long term project?

11. for earth science you could do a long term project on
space exploration
metrology daily log of the weather, as a bell ringer.
Biology: helping countries like Africa learn to grow
crops more responsibly
Biology: a plant project
Biology: a humanitarian project
how much land and resources are needed for each
person
genetics, by altering plants so they can grow more
*****I do not know what this is Tamara wrote
“nopers”****
tying in with going green and saving natural resources
genetics with going green and growing your own food
composting, using worms and the food from the cafe

13. 5) What challenges do you
anticipate in having students take
part in a long term, student
centered project?

14. The challenges you can anticipate are keeping their
attention throughout the project and keeping them at
the same pace.
As Andrew mentioned the importance of ownership
can be addressed here to help with any problems.
[19:04] Tamara Miles: All of the equipment that is
needed will there be enough for the whole class and
enough for the whole time period, and knowing how to
use all of the equipment .
Make sure there is enough time to finish the project
and the reflections after.
Always having a backup plan for every thing that could
go wrong.
The cost of equipment may be a challenge.

16. 6) What is your role as a teacher in
an environment that is student
centered?

17. As the teacher in a student centered classroom it is important to
plan and be organized through out the project.
The teacher should know when to back off and when to take
control and be the boss, there can be a fine line between the
two.
Need to make sure to have the materials and other resources
available.
As the teacher you need to know what questions to ask to get
the student motivated in the right direction.
Be a reference to guide not to lead, give lots of support.
Know where to find the references to the questions they might
ask.
Know the lesson well enough to know what could happen, good
or bad, and know what might happen from that point.
Assessments by watching and evaluating and also reflecting.