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Monday 30 April 2018

Call Back Day

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 - 

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 

2 comments:

  1. I'm finding the PD very interesting. And the children enjoys it just as much.

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  2. I'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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