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Comment by Linda Smith on January 15, 2013 at 10:10am

Hey Everybody.  I wanted to introduce myself and let you know that I have volunteered to be the moderator for our middle school science group. I teach 7th and 8th Grade Science at Yorktown Middle School in Yorktown, IN. I have been flipping since the beginning of this school year in my Accelerated 7th Grade Science Classes.  Next year I plan to continue with my advanced students and add my general 7th Graders as well.  Our school is going to 1:1 which makes the move to a Flipped Classroom an easy transition. 

 

Enough about me, I'm curious about you.  How are you flipping in your middle school science classes?  I've heard a great deal about teachers flipping in high school, but a lot less in middle school.  I'm really looking forwarr to learning from you.

 

Thanks,

Linda C. Smith

7th and 8th Grade Science

Yorktown Middle School

Comment by Lisa on July 27, 2012 at 2:03pm

Hi! 

I'm going into my 3rd year of teaching and would really like to dabble in "flipping" this year! I will be teaching physical science to students in grades 6-8. I want to try to use the 5E model, with the flipping video taking the place of lecture or textbook reading in the "explain" portion of the model. I want to assign the video for homework, and have class-time centered around labs, practice, and project-based learning. So, I'm currently thinking I may even just do 1 video a week. I'm thinking I might scaffold the year and have the 8th graders find videos to learn from themselves by the end of the year so they can see that they are able to independently use the resources on the internet to learn.

I'm hoping for help with a few things:

- Good sources for sharing/finding middle school level videos to use? I know I will make some, but I don't want to "reinvent the wheel" if there is already something useful out there.

- when/how do others use the textbook with this model? I don't have a textbook focused classroom but I think it is important to teach my students how to navigate their way through learning with a textbook - including note-taking and text-reading strategies.

-anybody have any feedback/suggestions on my ideas?

Thanks!

Lisa

Comment by Gary Bass on April 5, 2012 at 8:13am

video with your voice is far more effective..other sourced video is less effective( a la Khan)..short and sharp relevant to the point is also important.

clear purpose

clear expectations on students  - what are they expected to do after listening/viewing

more importantly..what will happen in class which will reinforce the nee to do the work in preparation for the next class...

many students over estimate what they know and do not follow up after class...so the emphasis needs to be on preparing before

regards

Gary(Melbourne, Australia)

Comment by Phread Ayres on April 5, 2012 at 6:51am

Hello all, I'm new to flipping, having only just tried it once, but am enciouraged by my students responses to this experiment. Do any of you with more experience have any suggestions on things to try, or, conversly, things to avoid? I'd love to hear from you on either point. Thanks in advance. ~~~~ Phread (said as Fred).