Session 6: Seam Summer Science Institute
Activity 2: How to write a Warm Up Assignment

(30 minutes) Choose 1 of the following (both if you have time!)

Example 1 activity: With a partner, write 3-4 Warm Up questions from your own discipline based on categories used by Arons.  Jot down a few notes about what prior knowledge or what answers you are looking for in these questions.    We will work more on this later this afternoon.  Resource:  Indiana Academic Standards

Demonstration of students’ thinking processes when dealing with difficult new ideas:

Ability of students to see connections between the subject and their own experiences:

Estimating - Getting a feel for magnitudes: 

Translating Words into Written Symbols and Written Symbols into Words:

Relating biology/chemistry/ physics to "common sense" 

To use as springboard to discuss the ethical implications of biology/chemistry/physics

Example 2 activity: Using the revised Bloom's Taxonomy Table, create 3-4 Warm Up questions from your own discipline that are combinations of the cognitive dimension and the knowledge dimension.  Jot down a few notes about what prior knowledge or what answers you are looking for in these questions.    We will work more on this later this afternoon.  Resource:  Indiana Academic Standards