Observation

Instructional Lesson
Classroom: Frederich
Grade: 3rd
Curriculum Area: Science

Observer: Kinsey Reber

Date: 03/17/16
Time:

What I notice

Thoughts, Questions, Connections to

Methods Classes

- Students were creating solar ovens.

- I loved this lesson and would love

to do this with a future class of
mine. I may shorten the length of
how long the testing spans for
calendar purposes in the future.

This lesson takes approximately a

week and a half with two rounds of
testing the solar ovens.
- Students go through the Science
Design process: ask, imagine,
create, question, and improve to
create their solar ovens.
- Students had to create their own
solar ovens and were not allowed to
look up other designs.
-The teacher offered materials to
students they needed and may not
need to build the ovens. It was up to
them to decide what they think they
would need and give a specific list of
everything they would use.
-Students had two days to plan and
build their designs.
-The hottest oven got to 115 degrees
Fahrenheit on the first round of
smores testing.