Grade 2 Science - Boats and Buoyancy: jeopardy Review
Rationale: For many of my students English was a second language, they struggled with reading, reading comprehension and writing. Taking this into consideration I felt that a unit test was an in-effective form of assessment. Instead of a unit test I decided to do a unit review game. This gave the students and opportunity to support each other and co-construct knowledge in a fun way. This also allowed me to ask the students some higher order questions.
Notebook Boats and Bouyancy Jepordy Review Game | |
File Size: | 8659 kb |
File Type: | notebook |
Lesson Reflection:
Overall this was a good lesson, the students enjoyed the review and it allowed me to see how much of the content they could remember, understand and apply. Using this information I was able to address issues immediately and re-teach anything that was unclear.
Changes I made during the lesson:
Changes I would make for next time:
Overall this was a good lesson, the students enjoyed the review and it allowed me to see how much of the content they could remember, understand and apply. Using this information I was able to address issues immediately and re-teach anything that was unclear.
Changes I made during the lesson:
- In order to hook the students I hid all of the boat exemplars I had collected under a towel at the front of the class. On the board I wrote: NO PEEKING. As the students filed in from recess I could see them buzzing with curiosity. The students knew my expectations and respected my request; they did not peek. That being said this did not stop the students from trying to guess what was under the towel, they knew it was for science and were determined to figure it out.
- Students were separated into team and given the chance to come up with a team name. They LOVED this! It got them excited.
- The students took charge of the reverse stick-pick. When their turn passed they remembered to come up and hand me their stick. It was great; the students took responsibility for their behaviour and helped me keep track of who had gone.
- Students were encouraged to talk with their groups even when it wasn’t their turn. I went around and would ask each group for their answers as if it was a great secret. This got the students engaged, supporting each other and reinforced topics as well as allowed me to formatively assess them through observation and discussion.
- To end on a positive note, the students had to go around and high five everyone.
Changes I would make for next time:
- Have 20 questions, so that every student has a chance to answer.
- To avoid conflict, I would keep a tally of how many questions they answered instead of point.
- Test Notebook activity on the school technology.