December Reflection & February Preview Task

Hi all,

After reading your reflection on the December session, I have made some decisions about where we will go for the next two sessions.

I agree that inquiry is an incredibly important piece, especially for science teachers. I'll devote at least half a day to that process. I will also provide you with a couple of lesson plan templates that you could use to make sure that your lessons are more inquiry-based and less teacher-driven. No one will be successful, yourself or your students, if you plunge headlong into full inquiry lessons right away. Hopefully the session on Valentines' Day will give you some place to start. Remember it's new to the kids as well!

Here is a link to 3 articles. Choose one to read and comment on prior to the next session:

http://www.brynmawr.edu/biology/franklin/InquiryBasedScience.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/classroom/inquiry_based.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquiry-based_science


Chris, don't forget the chocolates!! :)

I will also help you look at blogs and wikis, although I might not get to that at the next session. I will give you someplace to start looking at exemplars of classroom use of these tools for the final session.

See you in a month!!
Martha