My SCMT Student Lesson Plan

For me, the best thing about this third lesson was the interesting content. There was so much to talk about and do. The experiments were fun to watch and brought an amazing amount of student thinking into the lesson. My group was a pleasure to work with. We had great communication before SCMT day and we worked as a team to make sure we each had what we needed as we did our lesson. Too bad we don’t get to have three willing science assistants at our disposal when we are teaching science for real! I felt that my group members were able to predict the moves the kids might make based off our lesson plan. This a change from our first SCMT lesson. I can see how our SCMT lesson experiences have connected us with how students and teachers interact with in the five E lesson format. Our experience and knowledge from class helped us to
In my video I can see that students are paying attention to what is happening at our table, asking questions and actively engaged in group or partner conversation for as much time as possible. Each student had their hands on the material either mixing, pouring or dissolving and eagerly watched other students when it was their turn. The students seem excited to see what each new experiment would do and seem just as interested in figuring out why the substances acted the way they did. I think this is evidence that our learning tasks aligned well with our instructional outcomes. I would really love to do this lesson for thirty minutes. I think this lesson has the potential to more deeply connect the students thoughts and experiences with the experiments they were doing but still, our lesson pacing felt comfortable and the students responded well to the lesson’s structure. I think this lesson format was engaging and the students learned a lot from it. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the students went home and tried to do the experiments