This has been a great semester! I was so excited to take this course and now that it's almost over, it's been everything that i've wanted it to be.
I liked how the assignments weren't boring or monotonous. The Stranger Paper, Play-doh activity, poster (extrinsic/intrinsic motivation), S/P science fair, and of course the blog were fun and helped learn the chapter. Other assignments, such as the vocabulary note cards and the Chapter at a Glances, helped study for the quizzes and tests. The IQ test was also an experience, since i had never taken one before.
My favorite activity was the plah-doh project. Looking at the terms of the Brain Chapter seemed so complex and stressful, but this activity made things easier. I also liked the Sensation &Perception science fair. It was great to work in a group because it was so easy to distribute the work among the three of us.
I didn't like the long chapters, because it was too hard to read the whole unit the night before! But when leaving out procrastination, one should read some of the unit every day and use the night before the quiz/test to review.
Hmm... What is there to leave out... If i had to pick something, it might be the Stranger Paper. But when i think about it, that paper taught us APA style, which you said would be useful in College. So i suppose that the Stranger paper should be included next year.
Maybe for your future AP Psych classes, you could incorporate more of the free-response prompts. But they don't have to be on the tests. You could maybe give students the free-response question before the test and have them turn it on the test day for extra points or something. Or maye you could just give a bunch of free-response questions at the end of the semester so that they can practice on their own.
Well i dont know much about Economics and i wont be taking it for another year. It seems like it would be a hard subject with a lot of studying and unfamiliar terms, but i'm sure that it wont be a boring or a tedious subject.
Thanks for a great semester Mrs. Halfen! Good luck with teaching AP Econ :-)
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very expressive. the iq test was pretty cool i think, too.
I enjoyed the sensation/perception fair too! Maybe because I had such hard working partners :-)
Great job Hussain. You were very thorough in your analysis of the course. I agreee that Mrs. Halfen's creative projects ( like the Play-doh brain and the Senses Fair) were both fun and educational, which doens't happen a lot. I also thought your idea to have the free-response be an extra-credit to turn in on test day was really creative, and I think that Mrs. Halfen should seriously consider it.
wow long paragraph lol. now that i think about it the stranger paper could have been left out. i felt really awkward watching people, but then again it was kind of funny. good job!
good post, the creative project was very interesting and fun to do, and yea i didn't really find the stranger project fun.
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