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10/19 Exit Slip

The inquiry project, topics that I wish to explore:

How to we make physics enjoyable to learn?

How do we inspire student to have self-motivation to find out what they don't know in the unit? I hope to develop a process to motivate students to inquire the knowledge they have yet to understand. I plan to do a "test" and then work on the stuff students do not understand based on the result. It promotes a healthy attitude toward test mark and inspire students to explore knowledge on intrinsic motivation


What is the most efficient setting to do group projects?

While we talked a lot about the benefits of group inquiry project, one of the main constraint is the time it takes and the potential of uneven contribution from each group member. I want to experiment different variables such as class time and group size for each physics related topic so we can know the best settings to go about these topics and how we can distribute the groups. This will take some sample size and may be more demanding on time. It there are multiple sessions of the same class the condition will be ideal.  

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