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ED 109.02 February 8, 2012

Demonstration: Fun with Soda/Pop Cans

Notes on Lesson Plan Format

Revisiting Lies to Children

Critique a Science Lesson

Teaching Lesson Overview

Photosynthesis

6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy C6H12O6 + 6O2

Respiration

C6H12O6 + 6O2 6CO2 + 6H2O

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Transpiration

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You and a partner will teach the class a 30 minute science lesson appropriate for an elementary level of your choice. I will videotape your lesson and digitize it and give it to you the next class. Two weeks after you teach the class you will hand in your lesson plan and a reflection on teaching the class. Next Monday, I will model what a 30 minute science lesson could look like 3rd Grade.

In the front of the room, there is a sheet to sign up for a day to teach a science lesson with a partner. Sign up!

9 groups of 2 (30 min. lesson)

the importance of leading students through a logical chain of evidence, of showing them a variety of phenomena that can be explained by the same basic principle, and of providing students with a chance to put to use the ideas they have learned. And it is also how science actually works: Science is not just facts to be memorized or terms to learn, but a process for building up a picture and explanation of the world from evidence.

Four Things to Consider

when looking at and designing lesson plans:

Engagement
How does it engage students?

Inquiry
How does it actively involve students in investigating the topic?

Closure
How does the lesson bring everything together at the end?

Flow
Does the lesson have coherence and connections? Are there 1-3 big ideas that students walk away with?
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In groups of three (relatively same grade level), find a lesson online.

Critique the lesson in terms of the 4 characteristics we discussed earlier (Engagement, Inquiry, Closure and Flow).

What changes might you maybe make if you were teaching this lesson? Or is there anything you would keep that I got rid of? What would influence your decisions?

You and a partner will teach the class a 30 minute science lesson appropriate for an elementary level of your choice.

I will videotape your lesson and digitize it and give it to you the next class.

Two weeks after you teach the class you will hand in your lesson plan and a reflection on teaching the class.

3 things not in pre-prac template:

Learning objective

Time (e.g. 30 min), Misconceptions, References

Verb (Not know, understand, learn) + content

Examples of science verbs

Students will define that a chemical reaction is Students will analyze data to determine if a chemical reaction occurred by Define, Identify, Describe Predict, Design an experiment, Make observations, Collect Data, Analyze data Create a model, Write a explanation

A question which arose for you based on the class session, and what led to that question;

How your thinking has changed based on the class session;

A write-up synthesis or concretization of the class session.

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