May+12,+2011

Reflection 5-12-11 Group 3- Poster Day Today was the last project day. Group three came down and one pair from Group two that had to go over their results because it was a longer project. So, we had five groups today. It was kind of disorganized because two groups were still working on results while everyone else was ready to go on to conclusion. One of the groups from group three still had to do their experiment because it took them longer to write their procedure and the group from group two was seeing their results for the first time. We did a review of the scientific method and the six different parts that we have been emphasizing for the past few weeks. Then, the students finished writing up their results and moved into their conclusions. The conclsions we had the students write was three sentances long and focused on wether their hypothesis was right or wrong, why, and what they would do next time. The third part of the conclusion was much easier for this group becasue they had already thought of different ways they could complete the experiment. We checked all of the conclusions and then went on to the rubric. Most of them have never seen a rubric before so it was interesting to try to explain. Once the group go the point of the rubric and udnerstood the basics of it, we moved back to our review. We went through the scientific method and checked off the parts that we have already completed. They were excited to see that they had completed everything already. Next, we had them transfer everything to the chart sheet (see attached) and we checked for spelling. Once we approved their rough draft, we gave them their posters, and a due date of May 17th. Today went fairly well. Two of the students were a constant challenge. One is a classic “know-it-all” and likes to challenge our every move. The other is a classic “prep” and likes to act out in class as a class clown. When he realized that we were not going to accept any of his antics, he calmed down a little. He would mutter words under his breath at us but stopped when he realized that that didn’t affect us either. The “know-it-all” kept challenging us; things like “I think it should be this way,” or “wouldn’t it work better that way?” were common statements from this student. Once the lesson was over, we went upstairs again to pick up the other three posters from group one and the four poster from group two. Today we got four posters. One of them was from group one and the other three were from group two. This means that we are still missing one poster from group one and one poster from group two. Hopefully both of these groups and the five groups from today are ready on Tuesday for the Science Expo.