STEM

In a classroom at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, inmate students had an opportunity to do something “outside the box.” Instead of the usual books, paper, pencils, and calculators, the students used toothpicks, wooden splints, colored marshmallows and red and black licorice to learn about and construct DNA molecules. The kinesthetic learning exercise was an idea to make the material interesting. I had worried that the lab would be too complicated for my inmate students or that they would struggle to assemble the model or … [Read more...] about GED class develops handcrafted DNA