Review for:How Stuff works

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posted: on December 10, 2006 at 9:54AM

My rating of this resource: ****

My experience using this resource:
Biology

Topic I was teaching:
Homeostasis

My learning goal for which this resource was used:
The two-fold learning goal is for students to learn the parts of the heart and the basics of the circulatory systme - The second goal is to have students learn how to garner information from reading non-fiction text

Course Level:
Intro or Regular, Remedial

How I/my students used the resource:
I introduced the unit with the short video. Students had a question sheet and unlabeled picture of the heart. As they read through the material they were able to answer the questions.

Value Added:
Provides visualization or animation, Reading for information

Strengths:
High quatity information, good illustrations, information in small chunks

Weaknesses:
none

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