Roller Coaster
by Curt Wyman
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Assessment: Formative Assessment: Formative assessment
will consist mainly of asking good verbal questions in a logical sequence
that will enable the students to construct their own understanding of the
topic at hand. The questioning process will be utilized during labs, classwork, and
discussion periods. The time
when it is most effective is when a student comes to the teacher with a
question. The questioning strategy that will be used will be patterned after
the strategy presented by Penick, Crow and Bonnstatter in their article,
“Questions are the Answer,” that was published in the January, 1996 issue of The
Science Teacher.” Here are the key elements of the strategy: Which questions to ask? When to ask them? What order to ask them
in? Where to begin
questioning? How one question easily
leads to another? Where the questions are
leading? Clear, non-threatening
questions. Teaching strategy must
insure that student can answer the first pivotal question. One possible logical
order for categories of questions:
HRASE History
- Getting Students to talk is always one of your goals. What did they do, see? Relationships - Seeking patterns and
relationships Applications - Applying
knowledge is a true test of understanding. Speculation - Constants,
variables and evidence. Explanation - Hardest task in science: Communicate an idea to clarify the
nature of
the phenomenon and how it occurs. Avoid the ultimate and
threatening “WHY” questions. Teaching goal: To help students develop new, more
accurate conceptions to replace their old ones. Develop: Create an environment where a concept
is available for exploration, analysis and consideration. Language precedes
logic. As individuals learn to
verbalize about a phenomenon, they build logical structures and ways of thinking
about it. Students copy your
behavior. Demonstrate a logical
problem solving process. Summative Assessment: The summmative
assessment of the students work on this project consists of the grade plan
for the six weeks. The grades
during this period will be equally weighted between the standard classroom
activities like homework and tests and the project activities like the
milestone completions, the performance of the final model and the
presentation of the final paper.
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