Blog Just like we mentioned in our article about Cognitive Biases, pre-built-in biases in your student’s minds can disrupt their learning experience. It can be difficult to break these biases when teaching, and it’s important to not just tell your students they’re wrong and move on. If a student is gonna learn to resist bias thinking, […]
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Five Cognitive Biases to Avoid when Teaching
When you are learning something new, it is easy to be influenced by a built-in inclination. These inclinations may help you determine if the new information is useful and can be trusted. However, It may also cloud your judgment. This is known as Cognitive Bias. Everyone has Cognitive Biases so you may assume that it […]
A World of Language: Examples of Figurative Language in Media
Language is a powerful tool. It allows us to communicate complex ideas and emotions with one another. An important aspect of language is figurative language. It allows us to convey particular ideas without directly stating them. This can make our speech more interesting and simplify complicated concepts. Figurative language is used all of the time, […]
Presidents’ Day Basics: Explaining the Role of the President to your Classroom
As we celebrate Presidents Day this month, it might be wise to explain the basic responsibilities of the presidency to your classroom. Luckily, we at Classhook have found videos that can help. In this post, we’ve separated it into three categories: What the President Does and How He/She works with the rest of the government, […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Results
We’ve reached the final step of Scientific Method: Analyzing the Results. The information you receive from observing your subject and experimenting is only useful when compared to your hypothesis. By comparing the experiment results with the hypothesis we can determine if our original assumptions were true or false. Mythbusters The Mythbusters give a perfect example […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Experimentation
Experimenting is critical to the Scientific Method. It is through experimentation that we test our ideas and hypotheses and ultimately discover more about the world. We use experimentation to gather more information and prove if our hypothesis was true or false. Testing a claim can help us learn more about a subject and its properties. […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Hypothesis
Previously, we explained the importance of asking questions. Now let’s talk about what to do with that information. Using the information that we gathered from our observation we can make a Hypothesis. This is a possible explanation to a phenomenon that was identified earlier. It is important to remember that a hypothesis must be a […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Questioning
In the previous post, we established the first step of the Scientific Method: Observation. Now let’s go over what follows next. Questions are what drive us to learn more about the world. Through asking questions we are led to new ideas and new solutions for complex problems. Questioning is at the heart of science. Nightmare […]
Teaching the Scientific Method: Observation
The Scientific Method is the driving force behind our advancement in science. It is the process through which we build upon our existing knowledge and push ourselves to discover new things. For thousands of years scientists have used the Scientific Method to better understand the world around them. This method has been the guiding hand […]
Teaching ELA with Popular Media
For thousands of years we’ve understood that stories can teach us both ethical and factual lessons. Now, popular media carries on this tradition. We learn important lessons from television and films everyday. At ClassHook we strive to help you utilize the power of media to better teach these lessons in the most effective way possible. […]