This week, my major student-led activity was an inquiry-based activity in my physical science classes. Each group got to design their own experiment involving measuring the forces exerted in some situation. Again, I set some specific expectations regarding the final product, which helped organize student thought. My students are getting more used to the flow of inquiry, and classroom management is becoming manageable. I tried to include a few more thinking-based results- students had to relate their experiment and results to Newton's Laws in written form. This went reasonably well, but I obviously need to include more practice for putting thoughts in written form.
I'm having a bit of difficulty in Chemistry- we're dealing with relatively abstract concepts right now, and I need to find some inquiries which are related to the content, while still having obvious results.
Today in our PLC we discussed management issues related to technologies.
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