Name:_Victoria Pecot___________________________________

Weekly Log / Reflection

Weeks of: Week 12 and Week 14 (By the way this is 1st grade) # of hours logged: 2
hours (1 hour science lab each week)
Activities: write in a narrative form exactly what your students learn about science. Be as specific as possible so I will get
a good idea of how you spent your time in the classroom.
Week 12: For week 12, they were learning about shadows. The science teacher was teaching them to
inquire on how shadows happen, why we have them, and where they show up. Also about what has a
shadow. I really like the teacher because she always starts her lesson with asking questions and defining
issues about what they will be learning, and then give an example of it to show them. Then she will
have them think about it more, come up with an argument for it somehow, and then they normally test
this argument in an experiment the next time she sees the students. The day I saw her, the students
were doing a worksheet on shadows. They had to make a model and compare the two and say why in
the model.

Week 14: For week 14, the students were learning about caves! This was really interesting to see
because I was able to see students in the dark, with glow in the dark things that the teacher provided,
or non-glow in the dark things to represent the cave and what they could see in it. They took a quiz at
the end of the week which is what I attached.

Students’ Work: Take pictures of students’ work (at least 3 that illustrate different ways of solving a problem), insert the pictures, and
interpret how students think about the problem.)
Reflection: (Your reflection should include comments on the things in the classroom that impress you, surprise you,
concern you or puzzle you. You should also comment on any links you make from the topics you discuss with Dr. Kim
during lectures to what you are observing in class. Pay particular attention to children’s conversations and discussions
about science and how children approach science questions.)
Week 12:

This artifact was pulled from a student I observed for 1st

grade science lab. The class had to be in groups and have a soccer ball each. They went outside and
saw if the soccer ball had a shadow in the sunlight, and then they observed the soccer ball in the
classroom with the lights off (but had to imagine it as if it was outside at night). They had to draw a
model and basically answer why phase A has a shadow but not phase B, with their drawings. I feel as
though this student did not understand the assignment. She understood phase A but not phase B or
how to draw it. She did not make an answer to the question or engage in the evidence she saw. Her
labeling was good, however.

This was pulled from a 1st grade girl I observed in science

class. The class had to be in groups and have a soccer ball each. They went outside and saw if the
soccer ball had a shadow in the sunlight, and then they observed the soccer ball in the classroom with
the lights off (but had to imagine it as if it was outside at night). They had to draw a model and
basically answer why phase A has a shadow but not phase B, with their drawings. I feel as though
student 2 accurately represented what they saw in class this day. She correctly drew one soccer ball
outside and one in the dark. This means that she correctly evaluated the question and her
observations. I think the labeling could be a little better, especially in terms of describing what is
actually in the model.
 This was pulled from a student in my 1st grade science
class that I observed. It was the same as every artifact before. The class had to be in groups and have
a soccer ball each. They went outside and saw if the soccer ball had a shadow in the sunlight, and
then they observed the soccer ball in the classroom with the lights off (but had to imagine it as if it was
outside at night). They had to draw a model and basically answer why phase A has a shadow but not
phase B, with their drawings. I think he accurately represented shadows in day and night, with the
models of being outside and the models of it being inside. However, this student did not label at all. He
used no scientific thinking or even listening to pay attention to the directions. This shows that he is not
quite on target as his other classmates with correctly making models and labeling.

Week 14:
 I pulled this from a student in the 1st grade class whom I
observed this week. This is a quiz he took about caves, which is what they learned about that week. He
correctly remembered that you can see glowworms in a dark cave because they give off their own
light! This is awesome because he really struggled with understanding that! I am excited to see that he
could tell where the cave wall was in the photo on the quiz, because they did go over that a lot, so I
see that he connected this. He forgot to quite answer why he can see the light and where it came
from, as she took points off because of this. I think this means that he still has to master being able to
construct an argument to answer a phenomenon question.

I pulled this from a boy in 1st grade who’s class I have been
observing in science lab. This is his quiz, which I am sad about because he received a 7/10 D on. I see
that he correctly answered number 1, so he remembered learning about this from class. However,
even though he correctly answered the first part of number 2, he did not correctly evaluate and make
an argument for why he can see the cave in those two places. He simply only said that he can see C
and D better than A and B, which is why she took three points off.

This was pulled from a girl in 1st grade who’s class I had been
observing for science. This grade of hers made me SUPER upset, because they went over this for so
long. The fact that she made such a low grade tells me she is below average on target for where her
class is at this time for science. She probably needs extra time or more individual support learning
science topics. I see that she completely missed the first part of number 2 and said she can see the
cave wall on place A and B. I suppose she put this because the photo confused her, which I can see
because it kind of confuses me too because I do not know what is the cave wall. However, if I was her
and I was learning about glow worms and caves the whole week, I would be able to know that it is C
and D because glow worms illuminate the cave. I am super confused on her answer for the second
part of number 2 because she answered correctly, but for if it was C and D. A and B are not bright, so I
am unsure why she said this.

Extras from the last day I was there at school, and what they were learning about: (no students did
work)
They were learning about shadows more, and about Wayang shows and puppets.