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- Title
Science at Hogwarts.
- Authors
Beaton, Tisha
- Abstract
The article presents information on an experimental learning, involving students to study about fungi in the United States. The teacher started the unit by brainstorming the students their prior knowledge. They were grouped in four and shared their information and then recorded the information on chart paper. He/she connected the students to the imaginary world of Harry Potter and his Hogwarts school to invoke their excitement. In this learning experience, the students imagined that it was part of the curriculum at Hogwarts School and reviewed Harry Potter's reading list in the mathematics budgeting lesson. They recorded in the chart that the fungi are used in the production of penicillin and certain cheeses. They also marked that mushrooms are fungi, it reproduces through spores and some mushrooms are poisonous. In the next step the student groups framed questions to answer during the unit. After this they conducted field study while recording field observations of fungi in the woods adjacent to the school. They have done a preliminary library research too. The new method helped them to keep the excitement through out their study.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FUNGI; ACTIVITY programs in education; MUSHROOMS; EDIBLE fungi; LIBRARY research; SCIENCE education; EXPERIMENTAL methods in education; ACTIVE learning; EDUCATION
- Publication
Science & Children, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 6, p48
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article