ScienceLesson

PlanningMaking Learning Meaningful

Objectives of Today’s Session:

To enable the participants to:

• Identify the basic steps of inquiry based teaching in a lesson plan

I do and I understand.

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

Chinese Proverb

Structure of the Inquiry Process

Inquiry Starters

- Engage the learner’s curiosity about phenomena related to content

goals- Stimulate a range

of questions

Focused Investigation

- Interacting with materials, making observations and

proposing explanations

- Making and texting predictions

Sharing Understanding

- Consolidating ideas to

communicate to others

- Building upon each others ideas -Facilitator/ teacher

summarizes the concepts

QuestioningOBSERVING

Predicting

COMMUNICATINGPlanning & Investigating

Interpreting

Hypothesizing

Science Process Skills

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Micro Teaching• Model the lesson plan

• Connect the lesson to structure of inquiry, Bloom’s taxonomy and science process skills

• Reflect what we learnt and discuss what can be improved!

Connecting the Dots

Analysis, Reflection &Feedback

ICT Resources• http://

www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/workshops/fundamentals/index.html

• http://www.csun.edu/science/ref/plans/learning-objectives.html

• https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=lgUaHyFB31AC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=Forces+and+Motion+on+Earth+by+Glen+Phelan,+level+V&source=bl&ots=H39YsOzsD-

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/physical_processes/friction/play/

• http://www.amplifon.co.uk/interactive-ear/index.html• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr_gatewa

y/periodic_table/atomstrucrev5.shtml

• http://www.thunderboltkids.co.za/Grade6/02-matter-and-materials/chapter3.html#