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FLIPPING IN SCIENCE Consider yourself flipped! There is so much to cover in such a little amount of time. Flipped instruction will give you lectures and class notes for homework and more inquiry based, hands-on learning, higher order thinking, and rigor in the classroom. I will post a few videos for you to watch after school. They can be viewed with whatever device you have to view this site. Some units will have one or two FLIPS while others might have five to six. Each video stands along and is ready for you to view when assigned. Videos may be rewound, paused, stopped, viewed multiple times, etc. Make the videos work for you. Each video will have an activity sheet to complete during the video. The activity sheet will differ depending on the subject matter. Sometimes it is note taking; other times it is application. The important piece is you view the view and fill in your activity sheet. If you have questions or thoughts during the video, write them on your activity sheet. Sometimes there is a space for questions and clarity and sometimes you will need to just write these thoughts in the margin on the activity sheet. During class, we will use the material taught in the video to enrich our time together. This means we will have more time for labs and activities. We will also have the opportunity for more inquiry based learning, HOT questions, and rigor. Sit back and enjoy the videos.

Click on the video or the link below to see the introduction to Flipping in Science. This is the first one. The volume is low, but audible. I will work on that. :)
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An article about FLIPPING:
Should You Flip Your Classroom? By [|Ramsey Musallam] 10/26/11 //Ramsey Musallam (@ramusallam on Twitter) is a high school chem teacher in San Francisco and teaches in the Masters of Ed. program at the University of San Francisco. He blogs at FlipTeaching.com.//

At its core, "flipped instruction" refers to moving aspects of teaching out of the classroom and into the homework space. With the advent of new technologies, specifically the ability to record digitally annotated and narrated screencasts, instructional videos have become a common medium in the flipped classroom. Although not limited to videos, a flipped classroom most often harnesses different forms of instructional video published online for students. Despite recent buzz, catalyzed primarily by Salman Khan's TED talk, flipped instruction is by no means a new methodology. In the early 19th century, General Sylvanus Thayer created a system at West Point where engineering students, given a set of materials, were responsible for obtaining core content prior to coming to class. The classroom space was then used for critical thinking and group problem solving.

The Pros
Advocates of the flipped classroom point to its potential as a time-shifting tool. Jac de Haan, author of the blog Technology with Intention articulates this well: ". . . the focus of flipped teaching is different from other examples in that the technology itself is simply a tool for flexible communication that allows educators to differentiate instruction to meet individual student needs and spend more time in the classroom focused on collaboration and higher-order thinking."