Reflection STEM Strategies Lesson Plan (Week 2 Assignment 2)
Hello everyone thanks for checking out my first blog post! Today I'll be reflecting on a lesson plan I recently created to introduce the concept of waste to Grade 4 students. While writing my lesson plan, I took into consideration the 5 Es of Science (shown below): Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate. I found this strategy useful in explicitly recognizing the critical components of a fluid science lesson (plan). While a good science lesson very likely covers all or most of the Es already, being aware and actively conscious of them is a valuable tool in effective lesson planning. For example, I will engage the students by holding up the classroom garbage can and stating that every single day of the year each Canadian produces enough trash on average to fill up this garbage can. This gets the students thinking about the trash they produce and is probably shocking. We'll then go on to explore what waste means in a scientific sense and then explain that it is more th...