Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Question Boards and Answer Boards

I've been taking pictures of student whiteboards for a while, uploading them to our online classroom on our school's website. When the problems are different, they can be a source of extra practice (complete with solutions) for students.

When the framework is WCYDWT (What can you do with this?), the problems are definitely all different, because they're generated by the students. Today, I had them shoot a launcher straight up in the air, and then they had to develop and answer a question when the launcher was at some other angle. They determined the initial velocity from the first shot, and then came up with a variety of other scenarios for the 2D shot, including simple range equation angle and distance determinations, all of the way up to firing a ball into a moving CVPM buggy.

I structured the whiteboard sharing a little differently this time, though. I had each group write up a nice solution on their big whiteboard, just like normal, but I also had them use a small whiteboard.  On the small whiteboard, they made clear what their question was and included only raw data. This is the "question" board, and the big one is the "answer" board. This makes the process of using these as practice problems more practical and more like "flying solo."

Here's an example:


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