Whereas when you use block scheduling, it encourages an interactive atmosphere. With this problem I chose to enter the modeling workshop sponsored by Arizona State University in the summer of 1995. I entered because I had some concerns about what was happening in our school and was hoping the modeling method would be a good fit to block scheduling. It is highly integrated and systematic. The student's classroom experience is more closely related to the physicist's.
Students design their own experimental procedures and they justify their interpretations of data.
The models created from experimental interpretation are deployed in problems and activities. Another main reason I entered the modeling program is that I knew that my instructional methods would be evaluated through my students' results on the Force Concept Inventory. Now let's consider time management. If I don't use that time properly I lose it, because I don't have them for a whole year. So those 90 minutes can be very difficult to plan.