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Title: Planning and Managing Strategies and Quick Checks for the Classroom


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Planning and ManagingStrategies and Quick Checks
for the Classroom
  • Middle Grades Science Methods

2
Scope of Science Curriculum
  • National Science Education (NSE) Standards
  • Topic Standards
  • Unifying Concepts and Processes in Science
  • Science as Inquiry
  • Physical Science
  • Life Science
  • Earth and Space Sciences
  • Science and Technology
  • Science in Personal and Social Perspectives
  • History and Nature of Science

3
Unifying Concepts and Processes in Science
  • Identifies broad science concepts that are needed
    to tie the other content areas together
  • Systems, Order, and Organization
  • Evidence, Models, and Explanation
  • Change, Constancy, and Measurement
  • Evolution and Equilibrium
  • Form and Function

4
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skillsfor Science
  • Introduction for Grade Level
  • Scientific Processes
  • Scientific Concepts
  • Organized by Themes
  • Systems
  • Properties, Patterns, and Models
  • Constancy and Change
  • Form and Function

5
Sequence of Science Curriculum
  • Three guidelines to consider
  • Favor those topics that will generate the most
    learner involvement and interest.
  • Organize learning experiences from the child
    outward. Select experiences that relate first to
    the child and then to the science content.
  • If concept can be considered concretely or
    abstractly, use the concrete approach first.

6
Lesson and Unit Plans
  • Writing Good Objectives
  • Specify the behavior the child is likely to
    exhibit as a result of the learning process
  • Specify the action the child will be asked to
    perform
  • Attempt to answer the question What will the
    student be able to do?
  • Some Key Performance Words
  • Write, Plan, Select, Measure, Name, Solve, List,
    Define, Construct, Explain Orally, Label, Sing

7
Classroom Organization
  • Distributing Materials
  • Providing Work Space
  • Providing Flat Surfaces as Needed
  • Providing Clear Directions

8
Strategies
  • Cooperative Learning Strategies
  • Elements of Cooperative Learning Groups
  • Teach for Positive Interdependence
  • Teach for Individual Accountability
  • Teach Interpersonal and Small-group Skills
  • Using Cooperative Learning Groups
  • Create and use quick checklist for cooperative
    learning group elements
  • Determines level of cooperative learning going on
    in science instruction

9
More Strategies
  • Questioning Strategies
  • Convergent questions
  • Students focus on basic knowledge or
    comprehension
  • Example How many planets orbit the earth?
  • Divergent questions
  • Students focus on a number of different anwers.
  • Example What are some ways we could reduce the
    amount of water and electricity wasted at our
    school?
  • Evaluative questions
  • Students offer a judgment based on some criteria.
  • Example Where would be the safest place to be
    during an earthquake?

10
And More Strategies
  • Wait-Time / Think-Time Strategies
  • Allowing more time
  • Create and use Quick Check
  • Active Listening Strategies
  • Structure physical environment to minimize
    distractions
  • Have students listen for key science words
  • Have students create questions for the speaker
  • Practice summarizing what the speaker has said

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Strategies
  • Demonstrations
  • Can be an important tool for classroom inquiry
  • Can raise many questions and can be addressed in
    greater detail by individual science activities
  • Create and use demonstration quick check
  • Consider safety factors important in activity or
    lab using science equipment and lab materials
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