The main idea is that “learning is best facilitated by a process that draws out the students’ beliefs and ideas about a topic so that they can be examined, tested, and integrated with new, more refined ideas” (Kolb and Kolb, 2005, pg. 205). This template for experiential...
Students acquire scientific inquiry skills and domain-based knowledge through discovering relations between dependent and independent variables. They start from an every-day life problem, analyze the problem situation, and define research questions and hypotheses. Hypotheses are tested through...
Students learn about a specific subject by interviewing each other. First, students read a text individually. An example of a subject is surviving in the woods. One half of the class receives information about gathering food and the other half receives information about keeping warm. So,...
In reading activities the language learner as reader receives and processes a written text produced by one or more writers. This means that the student is able to understand the main idea(s) of a given text and to answer questions referring to the content of the text. It is important for...
Students must be engaged in a highly motivating learning experience, which is closely related to the tasks and challenges of the real world.
Therefore, emphasis must be given on the learning-by-doing, where the activities in authentic context are strongly emphasized, which means the...
The lesson plan offers an opportunity for the students to familiarize with and use oral sources in the study of contemporary history. In this regard, it can be applied within history classes and other social science classes (e.g. sociology, anthropology, cultural geography). The scenario...
Überprüfung der eigenen Wahrnehmungsfähigkeit, der Aufmerksamkeit anhand der Beschreibung einer Person