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Using simulations as tools to promote more powerful learning
Roberta L. Ross-Fisher
"Hey, Simone! Look! I found another artifact!"
"Yeah! Me too! This is SO much fun!"
The temperature may have been nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit that . day, but my seventh- and eighth-grade students didn't seem to mind at all. Beads of sweat poured down their faces, they were covered from head to toe in dirt, and they were having the time of their lives. For a while at least, they even forgot they were actually learning - but learn they did. My students had been studying about ancient civilizations and how various aspects of their respective cultures had been created over the years. One day one of my brightest, most inquisitive thinkers raised a question. She asked, "How do you think those people back then really created their own civilizations? Why don't people create civilizations today?" This piqued the interest of my other students, and with their input a major class project was born.
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