How does cooperative learning help one accomplish the goals of multicultural education?
What will be an ideal response?
By being forced to work cooperatively over an extended period of time with students from different cultural backgrounds, all members of a group will learn more and develop more favorable attitudes about other cultures than if they worked separately.
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What value can children gain from listening to a visiting storyteller?
What will be an ideal response?
An elementary science teacher wants to find out how the class is coming along on using the science process skill of inferring. What would be an appropriate activity?
a. Have the students write descriptions of similarities and differences between a mouse and a gerbil. b. Provide the students with photographs of animal tracks and have them tell what animal made each of the tracks. c. Have the students tell which chime in a set of wind chimes will ring at the highest pitch. d. Have the students decide what is meant by “sink” on a sink-or-float activity. e. All of the above f. None of the above
How might a science teacher assess the students’ achievement of science content?
a. Give content-based tests. b. Give standardized achievement tests that include science content. c. Ask students questions about the science content they are exploring in their activities. d. Require students to record all content information they are exposed to in their science journals. e. All of the above f. None of the above
Which part of the Project Approach is happening when the children discuss their experiences with a topic, then represent their understandings in a variety of ways?
a. Exploratory Phase b. Phase I c. The Body of the Project d. Phase II e. The Assessment Phase f. Phase III