Chapter 6 case study

1. I think that the students will remeber how it felt to pack all of the stuff and actually get to "act" out actual things that they would have had to do if they were in the war. I think that in "acting" out the war, they were probably more engaged and actually wanted to participate and learn more. Whereas if they would have just read about the war in the text, most of them would have been bored and disingaged. To many students, war/history is a boring subject. This is especially true when they are just having to read it...I think that getting to actually feel how it would've been is more interesting and gives them a better idea and they will want to learn more.

2. I think that his use of Civil War re-enactment engaged students' emotions because they were probably feeling tired, excited, nervous, ect... because they were actually having to experience things. I think that the relationship between emotions and learning is that when students actually get to experience things they connect it to the emotions that they were feeling. When they have to take a test or a quiz, they are able to go back to their emotions and think of what they were doing and then from that point they could connect to actual facts or things. When you read a text book most of the time you don't get those emotions so sometimes it's hard to recall some important information.

3. Well i'm not completely sure what dual-coding is, but I think that with him showing/having them participate in the re-enactment, that now he needs to do more of a lecture/verbal type of follow-up. So I think that maybe he could do a lecture but still make it more fun and in doing the lecture, the students will be able to connect to it more because they've already had the experience of the re-enactment/visually and physically getting to see what it was kind of like to be in the war.


4. My first thought was that Mr. Dunkin provided better instruction because his students knew what they were doing ahead of time so that if they were gone they could still get homework done, but all of his work is done by lectures and from the textbook. So my opinion is that Mr. Richards provides better instruction because although he isn't organized in anyway, he incorporates different types of learning strategies. That way all of the students will get to do certain things in the way that they learn best. Mr. Richards provides many different learning environments and that will allow all of his students to learn better than Mr. Dunkin's students...

5. Like I stated above, I think that the students in Mr. Richards class will learn more than the students in Mr. Dunkins class because they'll experience many different types of learning environments and they'll all get to experience their strongest types of learning (visual, hands-on, ect.)