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In the start of the lesson the teacher signaled the students to the carpet to let them know they
would be doing a planet scavenger hunt. The classroom management from the teacher was evident
from start to finish of the lesson. When she introduced the lesson, she sounded very enthusiastic
which then had the students engaged and excited to start the scavenger hunt. She set clear
expectations for the students and let them know they would have a total of twenty minutes to go
around the room and write down the facts for each number listed on their paper that she handed out
in the beginning of the lesson. This lesson was an independent lesson which was also addressed
before she let students out on their own to complete the scavenger hunt. During the lesson she
repeated guidelines to remind students of their expectations as well as how much time they had left
throughout the lesson. The teacher would sit with some students and ask elicit questions about some
of the facts that the students were finding to try and see what their prior knowledge was on the
specific fact on the planets or space in itself. At the end of the twenty minutes students were signaled
to the carpet which then they paired up with a shoulder partner to share one interesting fact they had
learned throughout the lesson and were then asked to share to the class their interesting fact they
had discovered to recap. Discussion after an independent lesson is something I feel like is important
because it gives students time to think on their own but then repeat part of the lesson to a partner
that may have missed that fact or maybe just did not quite understand something. I think its also
important for students to learn from their peers other than their teacher at times to get different
perspectives.
This lesson was not a inquiry based lesson. I say this because the teacher did not pose a question in
the beginning of the lesson and also because all the facts were different and it analyzed different
planets so students would not have been able to make a hypothesis on facts on various amounts of
planets for a scavenger hunt. I think to make it a inquiry based lesson the teacher would’ve had to ask
the class why Jupiter has a red spot in which case students could make a scientific guess on why it
Jupiter has a red spot but since it was on multiple aspects and the teacher did not pose a question for
Something I would’ve changed for the lesson would’ve been to make it a small group lesson and have
posed questions for the students to look up and find certain aspects of the planet. At the end of the
lesson I would have each group make a poster board of their findings and present to the class that
way students are more involved with the research of the planets and it also allows the students to