Research Reflections:
For the past month we have been researching body systems on our own.
One good thing about doing it this way is that you find more information. A teacher would give the information necessary. That way you get all the information you find, and this is much more than what the teacher would have said. And it sometimes makes the class more interesting.
One thing I didn't like about doing it this way is that you find a lot of useless information. You waste time. And it is easier to understand or remember something when the whole class is on it and a teacher is explaining, because the teacher would use simple words and try to make the thing interesting.
I think Mrs. Smith planned it this way because that is how most classes work at HIS. And I think she thinks that students like learning individually more than having a teacher talking for the whole class.
One suggestion I have for Mrs. Smith is doing half the class explaining things and the other half working on our own.
Another suggestion I have for Mrs. Smith is doing exercises with lots of questions that wouldn't be so long to answer. Doing about twenty questions easy to answer exercises instead of doing 5 really hard ones.
The Magic School Bus:
Today we watched a video of the Magic School Bus about the digestive system. The bus became really small and went into Arnold's mouth and went through the digestive system, at the large intestine, they went backwards.
One thing that was right in the Magic School Bus was that they put all the main organs of the digestive system.
Another thing that was right is that they didn't forget any part of the mechanical digestion.
One thing that was wrong is that they only talked about the chemical digestion of the stomach. They didn't talk about enzymes. They didn't say the mouth and the small intestine produced chemicals.
Another thing that was wrong is that I don't think gum wouldn't be digested. Because in the movie the gum still wasn't digested in the large intestine.
Kiribati
14 years ago
