May+11,+2011

Group 3 Experiment day Wednesday May 11, 2011 Today was the final day of experiments with group three. Group three has nine students and four different experiments. These experiments were very self directed and fun to watch. Like all of our other sessions, we started the lesson with a review of the scientific method. This group had a good memory and remembered all of the different parts of the method. The only things that they needed help with were what was included in each part of it. After the review, the students wrote out their procedure. It was funny to see how different groups took the words “be specific.” One of the groups was writing out every little step from here to put your finger when you pull tinfoil to how you place a boat in the water, while other groups were much broader. Once a group had their procedure approved by one of us, they began their experiments. The only group that needed assistance, besides explanation, was a group that needed very hot and very cold water. We provided the students with feedback and thought provoking questions to make them think about their results. Each group today had a chart already made for their results. One of the groups did not have time to compete their experiment today. This group was very upset and thought that they wouldn’t be able to do an experiment at all. We are going to have this group complete their experiment tomorrow. All of the groups had written out hypothesis that were correct. So during the experiments, we had them think of different things they could try with their experiment and try one of them. This gave the students more information to work with and gave them another perspective on their experiment. Today we only had an hour with the students and it was very rushed. This group wanted to explore their experiments and all the different things they could try but we had to cut it short because of time. Our response to the group who wanted to try other things out was for them to try it out at home and then give us feed back. After class, we went upstairs to get the rest of group ones posters. We ended up not getting any of group ones posters but we did get two of group twos posters. We were very disappointed in groups one but told them they had until tomorrow before we would start deducting points for them.