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Kristi Harjo

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5 Ways to use Google Forms in your Classroom

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Below is a list of five different ways you can use Google Forms in your classroom.1. Survey      Google Forms are a great way to gather information about your students.  I like to survey my students at the beginning of the school year to learn more information about them. ... READ the POST

How to Teach Motion Graphs Through Inquiry

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Discover how I took my students love of sports and used it to teach them how to interpret motion graphs in a guided inquiry investigation.I used to find it difficult to have students understand how their motion correlates to a line on a graph.  I would have them walk, then stand, then jog and ... READ the POST

Inquiry in Science: Fun with Toys

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True inquiry involves students coming up with their own questions and ways to test the question.  The problem that I ran into is the fact that I am required to teach certain topics in a certain time and it leaves very little time for this open-ended questioning inquiry.  I still want my ... READ the POST

Going Digital: Student Collaboration

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How can you introduce technology into the classroom without losing student collaboration? Digital Day of Learning is coming up on February 17. Many teachers will be trying new things but going digital does not mean that students are put in front of a device where they only communicate with the ... READ the POST

How to reduce the amount of time spent on grading

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Google Classroom, Doctopus, and Goobric a winning combinationA few weeks ago Google Classroom, Doctopus, and Goobric made some improvements and now it is faster to grade assignments online and go completely paperless.  I just graded 130 lab reports using Goobric and it took me less than 3 ... READ the POST

The Purpose of School

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I have a confession, I am a science teacher that does not care if my students learn science.  I began my teaching career over 16 years ago, before they had standards.  I had set topics that I had to teach but more freedom on how to teach them.  My students learned through inquiry and ... READ the POST

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