Week Seven: Science Lesson Concept Analysis

Now that you have taught your first inquiry science lesson, take a moment to reflect on the experience in your grade bands.

What were your lesson goals, both in terms of content and process skills? What strategy did you use to help students reveal and reflect on their own science ideas? What patterns did you observe in students' science ideas, writings, or drawings? Were any ideas particularly difficult or easy for students? Why was this? In what areas did students' science understandings grow? If you were going to teach a follow-up lesson to this one, what would it be and why? What question do you still have about teaching science?