Types of Adaptive Curriculum Middle School Math Activity Objects
- Concept Development: These math Activity Objects focus on conceptual learning and help students comprehend difficult to understand problems.
- Problem Solving: Designed to engage students in problem solving scenarios based on Polya's Problem Solving cycle:
- Simulated Exercises: Real-world simulations that encourage students to practice mathematical concepts through a series of leading questions.
- Visual Proof: These Activity Objects walk students through the process of developing formulas, theorems, and special relationships.
- Dynamic Modeling: Students become more responsive as they learn math by changing variables and observing the results in real time.
Types and Examples of Adaptive Curriculum Middle School Science Activity Objects
- Concept Development: These science Activity Objects focus on conceptual learning and help students comprehend difficult to understand problems.
- Experiments: These Activity Objects improve students’ scientific inquiry skills by performing virtual experiments in a safe environment, using virtual equipment in
realistically rendered settings
Five-Step Pedagogical Model
Proven instructional design principles create a structured, personalized approach to math and science instruction that incorporates activity-based tasks, immediate feedback, and assessment. Each activity object focuses on a learning objective tied to national and state standards.
At the core of our concept mastery approach is a research-based pedagogical model developed in partnership with ASU faculty. Students go through five learning steps to build engagement and deep understanding:
- Engage - initiating the learning task
- Explore - developing current concepts, processes, and skills
- Explain - focusing attention on one aspect and defining concepts, processes, skills, or behavior
- Elaborate - challenging and extending conceptual understanding
- Evaluate - determining progress toward proficiency of learning objectives
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