Working things out together: Waveform parameters
Learners often know more than they think! When they approach a new topic, they may expect their teacher to tell them about it right from the start. But there is often an effective alternative.
Watch learners on the video clip working together to combine their guesses, their fragmented pieces of prior knowledge and their intuition and coming up with some answers.
The learner activity offers a way of introducing this topic and illustrates an approach that can be usefully adapted to other topics, too.
Follow up the pedagogical aspects in the CPD builder.
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Working things out together: Waveform parameters activity guide (PDF, 129.07KB)
Application cards (PDF, 283KB)
Waveform diagram cards (PDF, 17KB)
Waveform definition labels (PDF, 20KB)
Waveform diagram labels (PDF, 19KB)
Related Links
To set the activity in a wider context, go to Planning the learning. There's a partially completed example for Ohms' Law to get you started
Go to CPD builder: Challenging topics for suggestions on the CPD implications of this activity
You might also like to look at Using observation to explore another useful outcome from this activity