Ok so here it is. I respect that the 5E’s are one of the best ways to plan a lesson, but every school in every district does this differently. Therefore fitting my lesson that I use for my district into this format was stressful. It made me feel like I had to clue as to what I was doing or typing. I know that most of you reading this are saying that it is just restructuring and reorganizing the information, but let’s face it, I know how to lesson plan, I have been doing it forever, and when you change my current training on that it makes me feel like I have no idea what is going on!
On the lesson front, I have already implemented the lesson I presented many times and the students enjoy creating their own talking doll. The worst issue I have with this lesson is because of testing being done on the computers throughout the district, it is hard to find consecutive days to allow the students to get into the media center and work on their projects. This is the most frustrating part of the whole thing, finding the time to get into the places we have to help out students because they are booked up by various other test and so forth. I hope that eventually we will find the funds to create another computer lab and allow all teachers to be able to get into the labs for their testing and free up the media center for research and not testing.
I love the 5E model of the lesson plan. It seemed awesome to me for science. While making a lesson plan based on this model I get a chance to explore the whole topic and cover each part of the lesson. Wish you all the best.!!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea why some of you are having trouble--but make sure you are using the google reader if you are and sign in under a google account-those who are doing this seam to be the individuals who are able to post--UGHH sometimes I really hate technology!
ReplyDeleteThis week we were asked to summarize the answer to number nine of the inquiry experience. Well what will happen if the polar ice caps melt is that we will upset all artic ecosystems, including ocean ecosystems. We will see a dramatic increase in the ocean levels, and we will see many of our costal ecosystems under water. The question I have is when I only have my students for approximetly 35 minutes, it is hard to do a lab and make sure to do a wrap up with the kids, what can I do to help my student get through this lab, while having the whole inquiry experience.
ReplyDeleteJennifer-Your second blog posting is actually showing as a comment you wrote. Not sure if you want to move it? I will put my comment here, so if you move, let me know & I will rewrite it.
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When you did your experiment, did you see a dramatic rise in water? I was surprised I did not. I think I would do this as a demonstration instead of all students having their own cup and ice cups. It is very difficult to get it perfectly filled up. You can still have your students go through the inquiry, though.
Its interesting that we are all having different results from the same experiment. Could it be that our results are skewed by our biases and expectations about what will happen? This sentiment seems to be echoed in the science community when it comes to global warming and what the results will be. It would be interesting to do the experiment again, with us all using the same volume, to see if we can reach a consensus about the results of the polar caps melting experiment. This would be helpful for us to make an informed hypostasis based on observation and shared , repeatable ,results.
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