i am a new teacher, how can i motivate the topic about galileo and aristotle about freely falling objects?
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Do an activity that allows students to drop objects in order to demonstrate the theories.
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perhaps start with your science teacher at your school.
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You can make notes.You can try asking your teachers about the questions which you are unable to understand.Also you can discuss the lesson with your friends.It helps you somewhat.
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Plato/ Aristotle were leading scientists in their day.\n\nYou should just start by going to any major year college and earning a B.S. Degree. This will lead you in the right path.\n\nGood Luck!
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That's a pretty specific need. AOL has a section you might want to check out called AOL @School geared primarily toward the educator: Click on the educator link for activity ideas...\n\nhttp://www.aolatschool.com/
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How can we help you if we know nothing about the teacher?  Would it help you to know why I liked my favorites?  OK:\n\nI had a history teacher in junior high who had us act out little scenarios from history, to make the whole thing seem real.  That was very good.  One of my math teachers used to give use wonderful little math puzzles, including some that were extremely funny, like those based on the works of Lewis Carroll.  My favorite French teacher gave us little gifts for spelling bees, and I won a package of five tiny (sample size) bottles of real French perfume!  My Latin teacher had us reading the "naughty bits" in the old bawdy Latin plays, but that was in college, and we were all very mature.\n\nGenerally, the teachers who put some creativity into the classroom, and who draw creativity out of their students, get the best ratings and teach the most.  But the other thing is the teacher to expects a lot, but plays fair.  My sixth grade teacher gave us lots of homework, and graded exams very uncompromisingly.  But she always answered the questions we had, and never played favorites.  She just imperiously assumed we all had the ability to learn, and would not accept laziness.  The lazy students hated her, but the ones who wanted to learn, learned a lot.  She was also very systematic, did the same pattern of exercises every day, so we always knew what to expect.  We had ten questions on the blackboard to write down in our notebook to answer in history and social studies; we had 20 vocabulary words in spelling, ten sentences to diagram in English . . . does anybody diagram sentences anymore?  Sometimes a very old-fashioned teacher is the one from whom you learn the most.  (Not "the one you learn the most from," because a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with!)
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dont give up on it, and definetly DEFINETLY DEFINETLY DEFINETLY go for it.  find a tutor-and because it will cost a lot in the long run, offer your service in return, like, find someone to give you extra physics help in exhcange for your teaching them chemistry or math or a skill like drawing or how to read musical notes.  whatever you do, don't give up.  i'm cheering for you!
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Hopefully you'll find something in there it's over 55,000 teacher reviews on lessons plans and planning.Best Wishes.  \nhttp://www.lessonplanet.com/login.html?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lessonplanet.com%2F%3Fgclid%3DCMb7rbeRlYQCFSkMGgodz2ATpQ
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Depends a bit on what grade you're in.  I'm gonna guess that since this assignment is about measurement in experiments, you're at a pretty basic level in science.\n\nA pendulum is a great thing for doing experiments involving measuring.  All you need is two or three small weights of different masses, a piece of string to tie them to, and a fixed point from which to hang it and let it swing.  With this you can do experiments measuring distance, time and mass.  Does the pendulum's period (the time it takes to swing back and forth once) change as the length of the swing shortens?  Does it change if you change the mass of the weight?  How about the length of the string?  Or, measure how long it takes to go from one swing length (say, 6 inches) to almost standing still (about 1/4 inch for the cutoff).  Does this change with the length of the string, or the mass of the weight?\n\nYou could have a whole table of measurements of the different factors (length of swing, length of string, mass of weight) and determine wich factors are constant and which are variable.\n\n\nA similar experiment is the one where Galileo tested to see if a heavier object actually falls faster than a lighter one.  The old story is that he dropped balls of different weights off the Tower of Pisa.  But what he actually did, is he took balls that were the same size but different weights and rolled them down a ramp, and timed them to see how fast they rolled down.  Can you figure out why he did it this way, and didn't just drop weights from a height?\n\nGood luck!
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You might ask Aristotle the following questions:  \n\n"What were the most valuable things you learned from Plato, your teacher?"\n\n"Did Plato ever refer to things he learned from Socrates, his teacher?"\n\n"What are the most interesting things you have found, working in the court of Philip of Macedonia?"\n\n"You have a precocious young student, Alexander.  What do you think he might do with his life?"
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Use your imagination.\n\nAnd maybe you could  ask someone else in your class what they think about the whole thing.
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Act interested! In the topic that is! Seek time with them during their office hours and ask them for additional readings. READ them and discuss them with the professor. They love students that are interested and can express an opinion, even if it differs from their own.
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Check out http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-gb there are smart board lesson plans and resources on there that might be able to back up your proposal. Smart boards are a great way to get children involved and enthusiastic about a lesson. I hope your school takes up your idea.
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How about writing about the problem of choosing a topic for your composition?  You could discuss how you used this site to help develop a topic and other ways you brainstormed topics...depending on the sense of humor of your teacher, and the specifics of the assignment, might make for a perfectly creative composition.\n\nGood luck.
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Put together a demonstration whether drawn or model form of how air pollution affects the atmospheres and the rest of the world. \n\nUse the green house affect to show them how the entire world is dependant on all of our actions. \n\nAlso make sheets asking them to answer general question about the subject so they can interact with you during the demonstration. \n\nThen as you go through the demonstration answer each of the questions using the model or diagram to give them a visual of what they are being taught.\n\nAt the end of class go around the room and see what each of the students learned from the demonstration and have them or have them write a short essay on what other ways we can help the environment.
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My father, making this same presentation to my class when I was in the first grade, spent half an hour on this complicated hypo about a stolen bike.  When he was done, the only question from the entire class was one kid who wanted to know if all judges have white hair.\n\nFor kids that young, try to find a rule and a dispute about the rule that they might understand.  Maybe something like:  The best student gets first pick of the toys at playtime.  Then you could talk about all the definitions of "best student" - highest grades, tries hardest, most attentive, etc.  And you could talk about things like whether she gets to pick once at the beginning of playtime or just can keep picking up whichever toy she wants. \n\nThat should lead to a discussion of rules, disputes, the role of lawyers to help people make their arguments, and the role of judges to decide them and why it's all better than just two kids fighting over a toy in the middle of the room.\n\nThat's how I'd do it, anyway.
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Well, I don't know how to motivate you too much, maybe try taking to a friend or parent, maybe the teacher. Ask them to help you stay on track. But remember that even if you are not motivated, you have to do it. Once you start doing, that usually helps with the motivation. And keep in mind that it's ok to get a bad grade every once in a while.