Relate Content to Real World

Keep going back to applications in the real world. How is it that geckos can crawl up a wall, and sit on the ceiling without falling off? How is it they’re able to stay there with gluey legs or something? How do they maximise the attractions between the molecules in their feet and the molecules in the ceiling? Show applications that are powerful, and hopefully interesting, of the ideas that are important. So for students to engage and to feel that this is worth hacking their way through the jungle of detail to be able to understand it, is to zoom out and show them how this topic relates to all of the other topics. It’s called scaffolding. 

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