2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1.  What is your essential question?

What is the best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school?

2.  What is your second answer to your essential question (write your second answer in a complete sentence)?

The best way to use art as a teaching tool in middle school is to create fun, hands on, learning activities to help students review and comprehend the lessons they are taught.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your second answer (details are examples or facts)?

a.) Students learn by doing- We can be told how to do something multiple times but until we do it ourselves we may never truly understand how to do it or the importance of doing it.

b.) Nav’s Notebooks- By going through the process of looking for or creating pictures to help represent important points in history our class was able to make reference’s to these things and therefor learn and retain the important history knowledge.

c.) posters and presentations- By having to present what they learn in their own words in a way that others may understand them students not only learn important life skills but they also gain a better understanding of what they learned. You can’t teach something to another till you understand it yourself.

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

My two mentors Susan Hodapp and Heidi Clauss by letting me sit in on some of their class and see students working on these activities and begin to understand things they would have never understood by just listening to some person lecture.

5.  What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

With this answer I plan to look for different studies performed that help prove my answer and continue to work with my mentors and observe their working environments to see how it helps the students and how to improve the process even more.