Final Flashcards
Planning for Teaching
Requires long, medium and short term plans
Science Concepts
You must be able to get at science CONCEPTs in order to teach with intent.
- A science concept is an important scientific idea phrased as a statement
- you may have to do research to find, identify and make sure you understand science concepts
Conceptual frameworks for planning
The first step in planning a science unit involves identifiying the conceptual goals for the unit:
- what are the specific SLE’s for the unit?
- what are the main science concepts for the unit?
- how do the main science concepts relate to each other?
- how might these relationships influence sequencing of the lesson in the unit?
Long-term planning
- planning shouldn’t just be be for one subject, should look at planning cross-curricularly
- sequencing is a challenge in both long and short term planning
- LT plans are built from conceptual frameworks, PoS and available resources
5E Learning Cycle
Instructional design model for sequencing activities in inquiry-based lessons
- Based on constructivist approaches to learning
ENGAGE
EXPLORE
EXPLAIN
ELABORATE
EVALUATE
Engage
- teacher driven
- focus students’ attention on the topic
- PRE-ASSESES students’ prior knowledge
- inform the students about the lesson’s objectives
- remind the students of what they already know they will need to apply to learning the topic at hand
- Pose a question/problem for the students to explore in the next phase of the learning cycle
Exploration
- More student driven
- Students active, EXPLORING PROBLEM, COLLECTING AND ORGANIZING DATA to solve a problem/answer question
- teacher facilitating process as needed
Explanation
- Students use collected data to make conclusions and report what they did
- Teacher introduces new vocabulary, phrases or sentences to label and reinforce what the students have already figured out
- ASSESS REASONING; COMPREHENSION OF CONCEPTS, VOCABULARY
Elaboration
- Extends learning by posing more questions or problems (teacher or students)
- TEACHER MAY POSE PROBLEMS/ASK QUESTIONS THAT STUDENTS SOLVE/ANSWER BY APPLYING WHAT THEY HAVE LEARNED (May include more formal evaluation).
EVALUATION
- Occurs throughout the cycle, it is both formative and summative/formal and informal
Variables
- DV: the factor that represents the results
- IV: the factor that is changed to see how it impacts the result (or DV)
- CVs: anything that is kept constant
Experiments
- fair tests that involve identifying and manipulating variables to demonstrate their effect
- Experiements allow for the identification of causal relationships
- Experiments should include replication in order to increase the reliability of the results
Teaching about experimentation
- recognize that experimenting involves a variety of inquiry skills (observing, inferring, collecting data, analyzing data, making predictions)
- Students cannot be expected to learn how to do all things things at once
- Move from more teacher guided to more student guided experiments over time
Productive Questions
- productive questions take a student forward in his or her thinking
- There are six types of productive questions: (attention-focusing, measuring and counting, comparison, action, problem-posing, reasoning)
Attention focusing
What have you seen?
What do you notice?
What is it doing?
What you can hear, feel, smell…?
Measuring and counting
How many/often/long/much…?
Comparison
How are these the same/dif? How do they do together?
Action
What happens if…?
What if?
What would happen if…?