{"id":89,"date":"2017-02-25T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:29:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T17:29:53","slug":"acorn-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2017\/02\/25\/acorn-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn-Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=tomlinson_thom\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The \u201cAh-Ha\u201d or \u201clight-bulb\u201d moment is one of the most rewarding in all of teaching. Sometimes those moments require a bit of work to make happen. A recent \u201cAh-Ha\u201d moment occurred in my class as a direct result of my applying components of the engineering design process to student learning.<\/p>\n<p>I had students compare the size of an acorn with the size of full grown oak tree. I asked students, \u201cWhere did the tree get all of the \u2018stuff\u2019 that makes up the full-grown tree?\u201d Students then brain-stormed ideas and made lists of those ideas. As in years past, the student responses centered on nutrients and other things absorbed from the soil.<\/p>\n<p>After the question and brain-storming session students researched the chemical composition of the \u2018stuff\u2019 that makes up a tree. Students identified the primary elements that make up a tree.\u00a0 We then cycled back for a quick review of photosynthesis. Students were then asked to see if there was a connection between the equation for photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>In group after group the realization that the carbon that makes up the bulk of a tree came from the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide. A true \u201clight-bulb\u201d moment for the students. Several students made a connection with the idea that trees serve as carbon sinks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cAh-Ha\u201d or \u201clight-bulb\u201d moment is one of the most rewarding in all of teaching. Sometimes those moments require a bit of work to make happen. A recent \u201cAh-Ha\u201d moment occurred in my class as a direct result of my applying components of the engineering design process to student learning. I had students compare the size of an acorn with&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2017\/02\/25\/acorn-tree\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}