Chapter 6 Case Study

1. After participating in this activity, what do you think the students will remember? How might those memories differ from those students would have if they only read about the Civil War in their textbook? They will remember how cool it was and how much fun history can be. They will get a more personal view of what history was like and what people really went through.
   
2. How does Mr. West’s use of a Civil War re-enactment engage students’ emotions? What is the relationship between emotions and learning? When people associate a thought memory or event a long with a strong emotion they retain it a lot more. It enhances their learning.
   
3. Based on the principles of dual-coding theory, what activities would be effective for Mr. West to use as a follow-up to the re-enactment? I think that a great activity is to do a mini re-enactment in the class, and write a paper about the life of someone in that time period.
   
4. Who do you think provides better instruction for his students? Support your answer from an information processing perspective. The second teacher would provide better teaching because of the different ways that the information is getting processed. Many different paths are being created to the same information.
   
5. How would you expect the students’ learning outcomes to differ depending on which teacher they had? I think it would depend upon the student but that generally the students from the second teacher would have a fuller understanding that would last with them for a longer time. Because of the variety of ways that they were able to learn the material. This way is aimed at many different learning styles instead of just one.