Lesson+Four-+Final+Product

Today the students finished up their experiments by writing conclusions and preparing the information for their posters.

** Lesson Plan 4: Step 3 –Final Product ** April 21st, May 5th, and 12th, 2011

**Purpose:** Students will write out their results and conclusion and transfer it over to the six block worksheet. As homework, the students will put all of the information onto a tri-fold.

**KUSD Standard:** B-2: nature of scientific process and knowledge Standard C: science inquiry—students will investigate questions using scientific methods and tools, revise their personal understanding to accommodate knowledge, and communicate those understandings to others. C-2: Make connections to prior knowledge. C-3: Gather background knowledge related to the questions being investigated. C-5: Safely use appropriate senses, equipment and tools to make observations and gather data. C-7: Summarizing, synthesizing, inferring, and building explanations

**Context:** Students will complete the scientific method as they write up the last part of their experiment. This step is the third and final step in the process: writing up the results of their experiment, writing a conclusion, and put the information on a tri-fold for the Science Expo.

** Planning Ahead: ** **Materials:** -18 tri-folds (13 for the students, 3 for the 7th/8th graders, 1 example, 1 for our experiment) - Copies of worksheet - Example tri-fold - Science Expo Flyers

**Motivation:** Students will be having a Science Expo for their friends, family, and other classes once all three groups have finished their posters. Students will have the tri- fold to explain their experiment and to show their knowledge of the scientific method.

**Development:** Students will begin the lesson with a review of the scientific method. Then the students will write up their results and their conclusion. There conclusions will have three sentences: 1) if their hypothesis was correct or incorrect, 2) why, and 3) if they were to do the experiment what they would do next time. Once all of the groups have had their conclusion approved, we will hand out and go over a rubric for the posters with them. The rubric will be based on just what we expected and approved at each step of the process. As we explain the rubric, we will have an example poster for the students to see that goes back to the first day with the scientific method and the bubbles. We will use the review that we wrote on the board as a checklist to make sure that each group has everything completed. Once they see that they have done everything, we will hand out a worksheet that they will copy all of the information from their lab notebooks onto as a rough draft. The worksheet will then be edited by one of us for spelling errors before they are given a poster. When the students have their poster, they will return to their classroom.

**Expectations:** Students will complete the results and conclusion in their lab notebooks and then transfer all of the information over to the worksheet. All the members of the group should have everything written in their lab notebooks but each group will only be given one worksheet to complete. As homework, the students will complete their tri-fold.

**Assessment:** Students will not receive a grade for this lesson. We will be looking at the completion of their conclusion in their lab notebooks and a completed worksheet as a rough draft. The tri-fold will be completed as homework and graded then based on the rubric.