Teaching Group 3: Inquiry Lesson

Group 3 continued teaching their topic of Victory and Independence in the American Revolution using an inquiry approach to teaching 4th graders.

The group focused on the famous people of the revolution as students wrote books on heroes of the time.

The group began with a quick review of the information covered previously.  The 5 E modeled was followed to engage students in the learning process.

5E's:

1. Engage: A review of information and the introduction to a puzzling event or problems.
2. Explore: The identification of the information processing model or indirect strategies being used.
3. Expand: Student are actively engaged in a learning discovery task.
4. Elaborate: Time for independent work by students.
5. Evaluate:  Formative and diagnostic assessments on both the content material and the inquiry process.

The group did good job of setting up a scenario of an author who has lost pages of a book and asks the class through a Voki to help her write the pages.  Each researched and wrote a book on an assigned hero of the American Revolution.

• Good idea, students were interested in finding out more
• The students worked together well
• Provided materials to help students find and organize information and create a finished project.

                                                                                Learning & Sharing Together

     

The teachers did  a great job of guiding student learning.  It may have helped to provide more instruction on how to implement the specific steps of the inquiry process and in completing the outline.

Well done activity!!!

"Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the process, ignorance the end."

                                            -Michel de Montaigne