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Unit Porfolio Presention : What’s Your Question? Become an Expert! Steve Williams

Unit Porfolio Presention : What’s Your Question? Become an Expert! Steve Williams. Unit Summary:.

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Unit Porfolio Presention : What’s Your Question? Become an Expert! Steve Williams

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  1. Unit PorfolioPresention:What’s Your Question? Become an Expert!Steve Williams

  2. Unit Summary: Students will generate a question that will be explored through the scientific method. Students will develop a hypothesis, materials and procedures, observations, and conclusions related to their question. This process will be summarized and presented in a poster format for a culminating science fair in April, 2011.

  3. Curriculum-Framing Questions Essential Question How do you prove something to be true? Unit QuestionsWhat are some steps or methods that might help you answer a question? Content QuestionsName the steps involved in the scientific method? How would you describe each step of the scientific method?

  4. The Science Fair Project • This project will help my students develop 21st century skills by: • Collaborating with peers. • Analyzing data related to their investigation and drawing conclusions to answer their original question. • Solving problems and making decisions about their experiment. • Communicating their results during the science fair.

  5. Gauging Student Needs Assessment • Purpose of the Assessment • To gather information about what students already know about the scientific method and developing a hypothesis. • What I want to learn from my students? • I want to find out what they already know about the Unit Questions and what they know about setting up experiments. • How I have tried to promote higher-order thinking? • I ask students to find relationships relating new information to prior knowledge. • How the assessment information helps me and my students plan for upcoming activities in the unit? • If students have misconceptions about how to set up experiments, I can provide scaffolds. If students have different levels of understanding about the importance of using a structured method, I can provide various examples. We will revisit this assessment throughout the unit for students to add their knowledge. • What feedback or additional ideas I’d like? • I would like help on my assessment. I think I need to elicit more higher-order thinking, but I’m not sure how.

  6. My Goals for the Course Find ways to get my students more interested in learning science Experiment with effective use of different kinds of technology my students and I can use Share ideas with other teachers

  7. Goals for My Students To learn how scientists collect and think about data To become more independent learners To be individually accountable for what they produce in class

  8. Request for Feedback Alternative placements for my students to work within the A.N.L.C. community Ideas for helping students to take over responsibility for their own learning

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