Purpose of Lesson: Kate Summers, the teacher of this biology class in Hayward, created a Project Base Learning activity for students where these students would teach each other key concepts of Chemistry.
How are students learning: One of the first things that caught my eye during the video is that students were actively collaborating with a partner on this project. A lot of the work was done through google docs or google slides but there was plenty of verbal communication and use of resources like textbooks and internet. Another piece of evidence of how students were learning was the time of their presentations. Chemistry is a subject they will be taking next year, so the simple fact that they were giving their classmates notes on this topic was new to them and they had a level of “mastery” in key concepts of Chemistry if they had to teach the class. What is the teacher doing: Attached to the video is a PDF file of what Kate hands out to her students in regards to the expectations for the project. She is very specific on the items and topics that students need to cover on their lesson like what key words they should teach, they type of visual representation, the handout they will give their classmates and to create an engaging activity for the class. In the video she is also seen walking around the classroom helping students. But it seems that there is more independence among students as they work with their partners throughout the project. Can I use this lesson: I really like the structure of this lesson and it could work in my Math 1 class and even in my AVID class. I like the idea of how students explore key concepts of a subject they will be involved in the following school year. I can do something like this as well where students can look into the world of quadratics since in Math 1 we focus on linear equations. Or since we do look at the Pythagorean Theorem in our current unit, they can explore the basics of Trigonometry, which they will explore next year as well.
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