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  • Westhill High School
  • Stamford, CT
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle In dissecting a frog students will see, touch, and explore the various organs in the body understanding how they work in an animal and discussing how these systems compare to those in themselves. In constructing a functioning roller coaster rather than drawing it, students will go beyond imagining how these rides are built and work in real life, but will be able to role-play the different professionals involved in putting together a ride and making it work. Hands-on learning, now called Experiential Learning, has been re-discovered in schools and is giving students the opportunity to dig into their own life experiences and background knowledge while pairing them with new real world situations and experiences that promote critical thinking and teamwork. Students are now free to wonder, imagine, discuss, discover, do and share with peers as they practice for adulthood and citizenship in class and get a grade too! Kinesthetic learning is not possible in the classroom if one does not have the instruments, materials and supplies to make it happen. Dissecting a frog and building a working roller coaster beats drawing them on a piece of paper every time. When students manipulate things rather than draw them, they develop critical thinking that will make their presentations more realistic, engaging and collaborative. Students will be able to better understand scientific concepts like force and energy, evolution and genetics. They will be able to learn by creation, revision, trial and error. As I observe my students kinesthetically working in teams, I will be able to identify any gaps in student understanding and redesign lesson plans to better achieve student learning objectives.

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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle In dissecting a frog students will see, touch, and explore the various organs in the body understanding how they work in an animal and discussing how these systems compare to those in themselves. In constructing a functioning roller coaster rather than drawing it, students will go beyond imagining how these rides are built and work in real life, but will be able to role-play the different professionals involved in putting together a ride and making it work. Hands-on learning, now called Experiential Learning, has been re-discovered in schools and is giving students the opportunity to dig into their own life experiences and background knowledge while pairing them with new real world situations and experiences that promote critical thinking and teamwork. Students are now free to wonder, imagine, discuss, discover, do and share with peers as they practice for adulthood and citizenship in class and get a grade too! Kinesthetic learning is not possible in the classroom if one does not have the instruments, materials and supplies to make it happen. Dissecting a frog and building a working roller coaster beats drawing them on a piece of paper every time. When students manipulate things rather than draw them, they develop critical thinking that will make their presentations more realistic, engaging and collaborative. Students will be able to better understand scientific concepts like force and energy, evolution and genetics. They will be able to learn by creation, revision, trial and error. As I observe my students kinesthetically working in teams, I will be able to identify any gaps in student understanding and redesign lesson plans to better achieve student learning objectives.

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