Learning constructivism through a marble ramp activity
By Colette Squillante
EDI 15A Psychological Perspective: Teaching & Learning
School of Education
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 24, 2009
Today in class I had a lot of fun with the activity that we did. We worked in groups to make a contraption using tools only provided by the teacher. We had to follow the directions given to us and use a newspaper, marble, scissors, and tape for the activity. My group chose to fold the newspaper so that it makes a tunnel, tape it to the desks, and have the marble role from the cracks of the desks into the newspaper tunnel. We had to make sure that once it rolled through the tunnel; the marble would not role away and would stop.
We worked together in taping everything together and thinking of ways to make this work. In the end we all really worked together and used constructive criticism and received an A. I had fun while doing this. We also talked about different teaching environments and ways of learning or setting up your classroom.
I really like the way this class is run. We do new and exciting activities every day. I really like that about this class; even though it is an education class everything we do is different from the day before it, yet it all ties into education.
Long Island University, C. W. Post
March 24, 2009
Today in class I had a lot of fun with the activity that we did. We worked in groups to make a contraption using tools only provided by the teacher. We had to follow the directions given to us and use a newspaper, marble, scissors, and tape for the activity. My group chose to fold the newspaper so that it makes a tunnel, tape it to the desks, and have the marble role from the cracks of the desks into the newspaper tunnel. We had to make sure that once it rolled through the tunnel; the marble would not role away and would stop.
We worked together in taping everything together and thinking of ways to make this work. In the end we all really worked together and used constructive criticism and received an A. I had fun while doing this. We also talked about different teaching environments and ways of learning or setting up your classroom.
I really like the way this class is run. We do new and exciting activities every day. I really like that about this class; even though it is an education class everything we do is different from the day before it, yet it all ties into education.
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