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Darla Donia Rowena and Reliann Jessica Curley and Bireen Mehrun Diana Gayle Marie

Engrade provides the ability to deliver multiple choice quizzes to students. While I have reservations about the use and abuse of multiple choice evaluation, well constructed questions and answers can help a student understand what they know and do not know. Finding an assigned quiz was not intuitive for my students, so I prepared the following screenshots to assist both students and instructors. After log in, the student lands at the class selection screen. Select the course in which the quiz was assigned. Hover the mouse over "more" to see the Quizzes menu item. Select Quizzes. If there is more than one open quiz, select the desired quiz. Start the quiz if you have a good Internet connection. Do not use the forward or back buttons on the browser during the quiz. A quiz screen with a time limit upper right. In this case the question referred to supplementary material that the students had with them. A detail view of the count down clock. This student...

Math curriculum support workshop number six was held on Friday 01 March 2013 at Madolehnihmw High School. The session began just after three in the afternoon. With the COMET test and the term completed, a change in schedules for the final term shifted the instructors to junior year algebra II. The seniors do not have mathematics in their final semester. This may also reflect the importance of the COMET and the weight given those areas which are tested - English and mathematics. MHS redeploys their best senior year mathematics instructors to the junior class after the COMET administration and . Whether that is coincidental or COMET driven is not stated.  The COMET drives curriculum in the high schools of the FSM. Expanding the COMET to include social sciences and natural sciences would likely help drive curriculum in those areas as well.  Shifting to looking at student learning outcomes accomplished by the high school students in their courses would be the idea...

On Monday, through a question and answer session, I determined what the students knew or thought they knew about latitude and longitude. I used a globe and asked about various lines - the equator, the prime meridian. I then did a brief outdoor demonstration of turning on a GPS and changing screens. Just enough to determine that they had some vague notions about latitude and longitude. On Wednesday I hid at N 06° 54.604, E 158° 09.308'. The students picked up GPS units from Yolina this term. My camera GPS recorded my location as N 06° 54.606, E 158° 09.317', the other Etrex units were in closer agreement to the Etrex Venture HC I used for the initial geolocation. Senioreen checks to see if her GPS latitude and longitude agree with the handout . The lesson is really a discovery learning session where the students begin to learn to use a GPS and begin to get a physical familiarity with latitude and longitude. Maria-Asunsion checks her GPS readings. The class...

The week started off with a heat and temperature video done in 1980 by Ontario TV in Canada that still does a nice job of covering the difference between heat and temperature for an ESL audience. The video tape is apparently no longer available, but the video lives on in YouTube space, at least episode 20 and 21 . A search for the other videos we watch (16 to 21 inclusive) can be done to find the rest. Wednesday I covered movement of heat in liquids (convection), movement of heat in solids (conduction), and movement of heat as electromagnetic radiation. I then did a series of demonstrations of temperatures, including my own. As usual the room temperature was 28 Celsius. Senioreen watches for temperature rise in laboratory six Laboratory six had the students exploring conductivity of heat and then presenting chart choices to the class. Larry being authoritative.  Maria-Asuncion presents her group's chart choice Sepe Valton Palsis presented with her usu...

The SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany class visited the Pohnpei state botanic garden at Pwunso to see the gymnosperms and angiosperms. To my delight and surprise one of the clove trees was in riotous bloom and full of cloves. Possibly the prolonged sunny weather of January-February encouraged the bloom? Or the trees have simply aged enough? Initially I climbed one tree to try to obtain cloves. While I was up the tree, the class started to arrive. Cheryll, Mae, and Liona-Leigh. My students, being more observant, noticed that cloves were all around on the ground. I probably should have looked there first myself, but climbing the tree seemed like so much more fun. Besides, in all the years I have visited Pwunso, there have never been cloves on the ground. Melsina, TJ, Markina, and Virginia view the cinnamon trees. I presumed the gate would be locked, but I did not use the "counter-clockwise" walk I have proposed using when the gate is locked. Starting with the clov...