science041812



For Thursday's Science lesson: What will you be looking for in assessing their posters? Are their specific guidelines you will give them?

4/18/12 - The book really touched on everything I wanted them to know for this lesson. Therefore, labeling the plant was easy for them. They enjoyed coming up to the board and labeling parts of the plant. - I thought the acrostic poem was a bit challenging but they did come up with some creative words (evergreens, waving in the wind....)to put in their poems. - I have not received all of the poems just yet. - I think it would have been more effective if I had created a bigger web on the board rather than using chart paper. The words were too small that students were crowding up in front of the board with their papers to copy. 4/19/12 - The book contained some interesting information but the text was too long. It took a while to read than I thought so I skipped through a lot of the pages. The last two pages about poisonous frogs and weird looking frog caught their attention. - They were so excited to make the posters. The idea of tearing up paper was engaging and fun for them, especially for JM. - I think the only part I would change is to have them start cleaning up a little early. It took a while for them to clean up so we were late for art.