I am currently working as a tutor for a school that has many international students. Although I help them with any homework they may have, we mostly work on their English. This past weekend I was working with a student on a Science 10 assignment about force. Now I like to think I remember my Science 10 fairly well, but I’d be lying if I said I needed a bit of a refresher. What was so fantastic about this assignment is that it was supported by an online simulator. This was so helpful because we didn’t need to have a shared language to understand. The clear representation of force made the assignment more accessible to her.

Here is the link to the force simulator. https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/forces-and-motion-basics/latest/forces-and-motion-basics_en.html

This ties into today’s discussion in class about the multimedia learning hypothesis. My teachable is French, and one technique for language learning is to reduce as much of the students’ first language as possible. One way this can be achieved is by showing images instead of translation. For example, if a student asks what fromage means, we can show them an image of cheese, instead of saying cheese.

Here is a vocabulary sheet I made on Canva to help with vocabulary about travel!