Activities:

• Help children identify inquiry questions and see the importance of these questions to the topic being studied
• Help children learn how to plan a project or method of problem solving and/or data collecting in response to their questions
• Help children learn to summarize and present the results of the project
• Assess what children have learned

Students:

• Pose problem or questions
• Collect data
• Summarize data
• Draw conclusions

You:

• Reflect on how students respond to the project
• Take field notes
• Reflect on student interactions
• Reflect on your teaching
• Discuss the project with 2 students (one should be your case study)
• Write an assessment of the project which includes:
  • Numerical assessment of student learning
  • Describe what went as planned, what surprised you, what you would do differently
  • What you will do next

  Include in first group of lesson plans.

Scoring Rubric

Field notes                                2 points

Reflections on teaching            2 points

Reflections on students            2 points

Assessment            

        Numerical                         2 points

        Descriptive                       2 points

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