Sentences with phrase «students use models»

Students use the models to explain to each other, to the class, and to the teacher how they are adding two numbers using place value.

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This can be especially useful in science and engineering classes where students use models to demonstrate certain capabilities of a product.

The study addresses outcomes for the student teachers, classroom teachers, school community and elementary students using a model for academic service - learning and community engagement that emphasizes interdependent components of experience, reflection, and knowledge.

The Learning and Teaching Model is presently available for mathematics, and data from over 40,000 students using the model validates the Gonski 2.0 report findings: students excel when given the opportunity to learn with an individualised, continuum based, and growth - focused model.

Currently basic surgical skills are taught to all third year DVM students using models, cadavers, and dogs and cats from humane societies that undergo neutering procedures during semester 5 of the curriculum.

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Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

For example, in one activity called «Stem of the Living Dead,» students explore the exponential growth of a zombie hoard and how the spread of the infection creates limited resources using World Health Organization and CDC models and graphs.

This workshop uses a «backwards design» model to help teachers plan engaging units and effective assessment techniques that bring learning to life for students.

Even inside the classroom, a teacher is using a model or a demo in order to make the student understand the point of the whole thing.

I'm drawn to educational models like Expeditionary Learning, which emphasize long - term, project - based learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they've done.

«They tend to be relatively cost - effective for sponsoring governments because each of the programs use a «last - dollar» model whereby the state subsidizes tuition costs after the student has exhausted all other available state and federal financial aid.»

REVERE, Mass. (AP)-- Governor Deval Patrick has asked a task force to develop a model plan that Massachusetts school districts can use to keep students, teachers and staff safe in emergency situations.

To date, students have completed a model of the solar system, a demonstration on how blood works, a diagram of the phases of the moon using oreo cookies, a bollywood dance performance and more.

This year, the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science used BOOST funds to benefit students in a variety of ways, including tutoring and professional development services, a class trip to Yale Model UN, parent meetings and family nights, a trip for the school's band to play at Madison Square Garden, as well as initiatives for honor roll students and those with perfect attendance.

Formed as a public / private partnership, Teachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

Working together, they will develop and test a variety of learning experiences in which students use online simulations to model energy - releasing and energy - requiring reactions, analyze and interpret data to make predictions about energy phenomena, and use evidence from their own observations or from simplified versions of scientific articles to explain phenomena and construct and critique arguments.

Consistent with recommendations in the Next Generation Science Standards, the new THSB unit is designed to help students understand and use scientific practices of reading scientific texts, analyzing and interpreting data, building and using models, and constructing explanations along with a coherent set of core ideas about chemical reactions to make sense of interesting physical and life science phenomena.

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Students assembled models of molecules of elements and compounds using balls to represent atoms and sticks to represent connections between atoms.

«Our goal is to provide some good models of assessments that can reveal what students know about energy - related disciplinary core ideas and how well they can use those ideas along with science practices and crosscutting concepts to make sense of energy - related phenomena,» said Herrmann - Abell.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

While a Ph.D. student in Jensen's research group, he developed a model that does just that and that was later used in Disney's «Tangled,» a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rapunzel.

The researchers created a model and tested it using a computer - based simulation with part - time MBA students who work as managers in companies.

Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

Elsewhere, Freese tells of using the «nuclear shell model» to calculate how certain dark matter particles might be scattered by an atomic nucleus, and how this led her to regret skipping lectures on the shell model as «uninteresting» while a graduate student at Columbia University.

Romanowicz, who uses seismic waves to study Earth's interior, had previously worked with French, then a graduate student, on a tomographic model of the upper 800 kilometers of the mantle, which showed periodic hot and cold regions of rock underlying hotspot volcanoes.

But the behavior of these reservoirs is not solely determined by physical laws of the water cycle, but also by demands and what these reservoirs are being used for,» says Caltech graduate student Armeen Taeb, lead author of a paper about the model that will be published online on November 22 in the journal Water Resources Research.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

For example, this technology could be used in a new type of medical textbook that allows students to see a 3 - D animated model of a heart instead of a dreary anatomical drawing.

Matthew Huber, who uses computer models to examine climate dynamics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has his new students work on test projects to prove their skills before they move on to more advanced problems.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

In the study, Lauren Lowman, a doctoral student in Barros's laboratory, used a hydrological computer model to simulate the ecological impacts of tropical cyclones from 2004 - 2007.

To examine the role for endocannabinoids generated in peripheral organs in controlling the overeating of western diet, DiPatrizio and coauthor Donovan A. Argueta, a bioengineering Ph.D. student in his lab, used a mouse model of western diet - induced obesity (chronic exposure to high levels of sugars and fats).

So Morton has spent a good chunk of her time at Colby developing a laboratory curriculum that involves starting students off with directed experiments (i.e., with explicit instructions and clear procedures) before giving them the chance — using the directed experiments as models — to design their own experiments.

Van Avendonk mentioned this problem during a casual conversation with Joshua «Bud» Davis, a Ph.D. student in UTIG's plate tectonics research group and co-author, who said that the group could investigate both of the explanations using computer models of plate movement since the Jurassic and a global database of hotspots.

Lamb and his fellow researchers, including college colleagues Tariq Akmal and Kathy Baldwin, use an artificial neural network they named the Student Task and Cognition Model.

Using statistical models, the researchers looked at two factors in kindergarten — children's executive function and exposure to play in the classroom — and how they contributed to the students» participation in different extracurricular activities in 8th grade.

«Which substance one should use for a model experiment — one similar to the original or one unlike the original — thus depends on what you want to teach the children,» says PhD student Christina Toschka.

At the same time, he and his students have taken detailed measurements after the deadly 2015 avalanche, which are being used to fine - tune a computer model that will also help improve forecasting.

First, lessons should engage students in the kinds of practices that scientists and engineers use to investigate the world, develop theories, build models and design systems.

He throws in the occasional joke and uses models and props to help students understand and remember scientific concepts.

Morgan O'Neill, the paper's lead author and a former PhD student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), says the team's model may eventually be used to gauge atmospheric conditions on planets outside the solar system.

The student team investigated the spread of a hypothetical zombie virus using the SIR model — an epidemiological model that describes the spread of a disease throughout a population.

This predictive model could be used to figure out what these side effects are ahead of time,» said UC San Diego alumnus Aarash Bordbar, who did this research while a Ph.D. student in Palsson's Systems Biology Research Group.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

In the high school unit, Roseman noted, similar atomic and molecular models are also used but in conjunction with bar graphs and energy transfer diagrams to help students understand that the energy changes they observe during chemical reactions are associated with changes in the arrangement of atoms.

In Project 2061's middle school unit, students use LEGOs and ball - and - stick models to make sense of the production of new substances in terms of atom rearrangement and conservation.

Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.