Lauren Hayward

NY

Using the 5E’s to structure any unit is beneficial. If I introduce a topic that the students haven’t learned and I allow the students to engage with each other is important because it allows the students to ask questions and share ideas. Allowing students to use their prior knowledge to connect their past learning to the present learning helps them understand better. Allowing the students to expl...

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After reading Turning on the Lights: What Pre-Assessments Can Do, I learned that pre-assessments can be both a positive thing and a negative thing. Pre-assessments can help educators learn more about what the student might already know about certain things. This can be a negative thing because giving the pre-assessment can take up too much of instructional time, which gives educators a shorter a...

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In this article there were two activities that were presented to show what science means. Having students observe their surroundings can help them get a better understanding of what is going on. One activity was the Mystery Tube Activity. Having students make drawings of what they think is going on in the mystery tube can help them really think it out and come up with ideas. Even if they come up...

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