Blog Post Week 4

Week 4

At the beginning of lab this week we were able to look at our fast plant from last week. This was very cool to see the difference between the seed we tried to grow in the cotton.

After we discussed what a good question is with small groups, and shared our reading and reflection responses. Then we were able to share out loud with the rest of the class what our ideas area as we do every class. This was nice to hear everyone's varying responses and add onto my own ideas that I had while originally responding.

Then Dr. You showed us the importance or lack thereof of the order of lesson segments in a lesson plan. She was able to do this by giving us the segments in random orders and then asking if we could use that order in certain lessons.

Next, we explored the 5E teaching method through a video, direct instruction, and our own investigating.

5E - teaching method with five parts. Engage explore explain extend and evaluate (makes learning active fun and effective) learned through video and discussion

1. Engage- student interest is piqued (can find student prior knowledge as well)

2. Explore- students explore the concept through hands-on activity

3. Explain- the direct instruction phase presented in a collaborative fashion (vocabulary could be introduced during this phase)

4. Extend- generalizations about the new learning is applied to previous investigations (hypothesis can be tested)

5. Evaluate- students can evaluate their own learning 

Non-traditional assessments - concept maps, journals, presentations, projects, portfolios, performance tasks, models

To apply our new knowledge we created slideshows to present this information to the class in our table groups. I appreciated this activity as applying the new information was more effective to ensure I remember the 5 Es/