{"id":13616,"date":"2018-02-18T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T06:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=13616"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:13:38","slug":"everyday-science-model-lessons-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/everyday-science-model-lessons-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Science: Model Lessons II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image-1024x605.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since January 12, 2018 I have been running the <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-us-embassys-book-bus-science-teacher-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Embassy&#8217;s Book Bus teacher empowerment program<\/a> Everyday Science: Learn, To Teach; Teach, To Learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I promised the participants that I would share, online, most of what I shared with them in the workshops, that I would share them in the form of blog posts. This is the fifth one. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/everyday-science-learn-to-teach-teach-to-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the blog post <em>Everyday Science: Learn, To Teach; Teach, To Learn<\/em> in which you can find links to all the blog post about the workshops.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/everyday_science\/D5S1%20-%20Air%20Fire%20Water.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation on the activity where they inverted a conical flask over a burning candle in a plastic trough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I have performed the demonstration to my students in the past, and have even assigned a task about it to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/myp4-5-science\/m4-chemistry\/m4-magical-candle\/\">MYP Year 4 students<\/a> as well as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/dp-chemistry\/dp1\/dp1-magical-candle\/\">IB Diploma students<\/a>. Obviously, the task for the Diploma student is a lot more challenging than that for MYP Year 4 sudents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the quick experiment looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Magical Candle\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqtgNhhkKmE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of the workshop, I had them play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webgamesonline.com\/mastermind\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastermind<\/a>, the board game! Science requires the use of reason and logic, and Mastermind is no different. You can find the details of why and how I used the board game with my class in the past check out <a title=\"Permanent Link to Modelling\u2026Without the Catwalk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/modelling-without-the-catwalk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Modelling\u2026Without the Catwalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, I had them provide anonymous reflections. One of the first questions in the sheet asks them to rate the session and provide a reason(s) for the rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png 841w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason-768x516.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the participants rated the session and their reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Day-5-Rating-and-reason-for-rating.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Day-5-Rating-and-reason-for-rating.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Day-5-Rating-and-reason-for-rating.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Day-5-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Day-5-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-768x583.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the details from the fifth of the seven-session US Embassy&#8217;s Book Bus (Science) Teacher Empowerment Program, Everyday Science: Learn, to Teach; Teach, To Learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Everyday Science: Model Lessons II #Nepal #NepalEducation #ScienceEducation #TeacherTraining","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[340],"tags":[516,518,211,483,210,330,515],"class_list":["post-13616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-education","tag-bookbus-nepal","tag-satori-center-for-the-arts","tag-science-teaching","tag-teacher-training-in-nepal","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-in-nepal","tag-the-us-embassys-book-bus"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/candle-in-a-trough-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-3xC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29998,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13616\/revisions\/29998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}