UM: Teaching

On the UM Teaching Fellows Community blog, Erik Yusko writes about his challenge to teach biology to 9th graders at Ypsilanti High School. “In addition, to keeping students focused I was trying to remember what 9th grade was like for me with my limited views of science at the time. I realized that any activity or concept that could relate what scientists actually do, what other tools they may have, and in general what types of questions scientists are really addressing may help motivate these students or at least elicit appreciation.” [Source]