STEM
On our call back day, we had a day with Susan Heeps. This was an expansion of our science teaching and understanding.
Importance of introducing scientific practices/ vocabulary during the day.
Classifying things to help us understand it.
Looking at the relationships between different things.
Students page - Shows their thinking. Get them to share- this will help them explore their own thinking and giving them agency.
All things in the natural world that have a structure have a purpose. '
'Parking some ideas' - there are many ideas and concepts - Sometimes you need to park ideas and focus and go deeper with one particular idea or learning area.
Austin Butterfly -
Austin Butterfly -
Science Lesson Ideas:
1.Exploration of different objects- Compare and contrast ( Introduce- Venn Diagrams, focused observation, inferencing) Shells, bones, rocks.
2. Cartesian Diver
3. Classifying shells
Sort specimens/ shells into groups/ categories.
Look at others. Post it note questions you have. Group or students share, photo on TV - talk to the picture. Develops key competencies, building science knowledge - classifying, communicating your thinking, thinking and inferring. How can you convey to others the categories you created. Recognising patterns, protect sample set.
4. Candles
4. Candles
I'm finding the PD very interesting. And the children enjoys it just as much.
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to introducing Venn Diagrams in class as well, I might use them to compare and contrast for reading activities as well.
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