This model worked out better than I had expected. Students did a good job of coming up with a list of words for the concept of roller coaster. As we worked through the process there was some serious conversations going on that you could tell they were giving some thought to their lists. Several words were ones I ask for a reason and I got back some really good reasons for including them. One group put "pregnant women" and I am thinking they can't ride a roller coaster, and that was the reason the group listed them along with little children.
When ask to group the words students did so and several groups labeled theirs as they went. The hardest part for the students was regrouping although several said they thought some of the words could go in more than one group. I wish we could have spent a little more time on this part of the lesson. As it was the bell was ringing as the best generalization was said. I would use this model to introduce other lessons. I believe this model is one that once you have used it several times with students it could really promote the thinking we are encouraging out students to do.
The movie was easy to put together this time, and Dr. H it is 11 minutes, I am getting better:) See you in class.
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This lesson flowed better and had more discussion. The students took the concept another direction than I thought they would. It is interesting to see how their minds work.
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