My colleague and I met Thursday after school. We decided that we would begin our unit the third week of September 2009. Wanda will provide Language Art instructions, while I will provide the Science instructions for our students. Our students will be switching classrooms during this instructional time. We reviewed the three facets of understanding that she will base her teaching instructions on.
1. Students will assume the role of a Monarch Butterfly and/or caterpillar and write a story about their life.
2. Students will document their observations from a microscope picture of an aspect of a Monarch’s life.
3. Students will analyze facts from Nonfiction text and Websites.
The essential questions for Language Arts are:
How do we search for information/answers on a specific topic?
How do we analyze facts into our words?
How do we document changes in living organisms?
I explained the WHERETO’s to my colleague and we discussed the seven learning styles. She uses the seven learning styles in her teaching, but found the language different.
The first two weeks of school we will be introducing the attributes of insects. I will demonstrate how to use my Kidspiration template on the Smart Board. I have used this template in the past to help my students rethink their new learning. Wanda and I decided to do a cooperative project with our students. Working in groups, they will create insects out of a variety of materials.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Working on Stage 3 with colleague
4/7/09
I met with my colleague after school to discuss Stage 3. She was impressed with the websites that I have incorporated into our Science unit. I will be using these sites to instruct both classes. She asked why I did not included a microscope as an observation tool. She was not aware that the microscope we have used in the past, has software that we can not upload on to our computers. She suggested that I have students use a digital camera to take pictures of the caterpillars during observation times and use the pictures to create a slide show or a class book. My colleague stated that she does not use the Stage 3 format to create lesson plans and found it too complex to incorporated.
I met with my colleague after school to discuss Stage 3. She was impressed with the websites that I have incorporated into our Science unit. I will be using these sites to instruct both classes. She asked why I did not included a microscope as an observation tool. She was not aware that the microscope we have used in the past, has software that we can not upload on to our computers. She suggested that I have students use a digital camera to take pictures of the caterpillars during observation times and use the pictures to create a slide show or a class book. My colleague stated that she does not use the Stage 3 format to create lesson plans and found it too complex to incorporated.
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