We did have to work on putting our explanation in a paragraph. This lesson really brought to light the area of weakness for my students, which is writing a good scientific explanation. Since this lesson I have included writing scientific explanations in my writing block.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Lesson Reflection
My students had a blast with the inquiry lesson on building a series circuit. They loved the hands on learning and I think their explanations were better with the hands on experience than they would have been had we only read the text. They enjoyed using the materials. They were more interested and engaged. I plan to continue using hands on approaches in my classroom.
We did have to work on putting our explanation in a paragraph. This lesson really brought to light the area of weakness for my students, which is writing a good scientific explanation. Since this lesson I have included writing scientific explanations in my writing block.
We did have to work on putting our explanation in a paragraph. This lesson really brought to light the area of weakness for my students, which is writing a good scientific explanation. Since this lesson I have included writing scientific explanations in my writing block.
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Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the experiment worked well. When I taught that unit, my students love it and excelled at it. I contribute this mostly to the fact taht so much of it was hands on experiments. Did you have any student work samples? I would love to see them to see the students thinking.
I did have student work to post, but when I uploaded the document something went haywire and I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I even had one of my friends help me and it still didn't work. Any suggestions?
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