IMSA FUSION: Week 12 Reflection
- Unit: Your Sense-Sational Senses – Pathways to Learning
- Lesson: The Learning Environment and the Learner
- What do you perceive to be the strength of each lesson presented?
- Students were able to conduct a comparative study of the case of Genie, which they learned about in Weeks 9 and 10, and actual scientific experiments of brain activity in rats.
- What evidence do you have (qualitative or quantitative) that students understood the concepts presented?
- All the students graphed and discussed dendrite data according to rat brain activity as displayed in diagrams. Students clearly demonstrated their understanding of the connection between brain activity and social isolation in both the rats and in the case of Genie. Students were able to identify which variables were healthiest and most damaging to the brain. They determined that socialization and stimulus were the most important variables as rats in cages with other rats and those with toys showed the greatest brain activity, but those lacking both registered the lowest brain activity.
- What other student learning took place?
- Students increased their own brains via socialization and stimulation when they chatted and played with the Smart Board. Additionally, students were curious about the number of dendrites in rat brains as compared to human brains.
- Other comments: An adult human brain weighs between 1,300 and 1,400 grams. A rat brain weighs around 2 grams. A viper has a brain of 0.1 gram. If you remind a viper of that, he or she may bite you.
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