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Title

Out of Disaster Comes Opportunity: Initial Lessons from Teacher Mentoring in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Author(s)

Joy Lesnick, University of Pennsylvania
Katherine Schultz, University of PennsylvaniaFollow

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of this Version

January 2006

Comments

Reprinted from Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2006, 13 pages.
Publisher URL: http://www.urbanedjournal.org/notes/

Abstract

As a science educator, I have learned that teachers sometimes feel like they can’t teach science without specialized equipment. In my experience, however, there are many science concepts that can be demonstrated with very basic tools. Building a sundial is one activity that is rich in content and requires very few materials.

Building sundials had been a successful activity for me with both students and teachers in the U.S, so I was excited to share the activity with teachers in Aceh during our two-week professional development session.