1. This summer what has worked well is that we review the nights reading in class so we understand what we read. What also worked is that we have time in class to do homework so we do not have as much when we get home and are not as overwhelmed.
2. For next years course I recommend that the nights when we have very little homework we can get ahead so that in week 6 we are not so overwhelmed with homework.
3. I think we can make the economist more interesting if we can branch out to other science articles because a lot of kids in the class repeat articles because we run out of options.
4. We can use blogs more effectively if we focus on not just doing the homework on them, but also add extra things related to what we are learning for the fun of it and not for the letter grade.
5. The instructor should check that we did all the homework but he/she should not grade on correct or incorrect answers because in homework we make mistakes because we haven't talked about it in class yet.
6. I think we should have more experiments that are fun and creative and we should have art projects related to chemistry instead of homework and tests everyday. I think we should also travel away from the book as much and learn the same things in other ways. It gets really boring reading chapters every night and then taking a quiz on it the next day. We could all get a section that night then the next day each of us teach from that section to the whole class. It is said that if you teach something you learn it better.
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