The PowerPoint activity did not support the assigned Project-based strategy because the reading talked about how teachers use opportunities to guide students through a series of steps including asking good questions, generating hypotheses and predictions, investigating through testing or research, making observations, and finally analyzing and communicating results. The Powerpoint project had a set of directions and we were let loose on the project. We could not ask any of our peers what they thought, we could only ask the teacher.
The project could be changed so that the it was a Project-based strategy by using questioning strategies. The reading talks about a couple strategies and the last one was Use questioning
strategies. Ask questions throughout the inquiry cycle—when students are posing questions, while they are investigating, when they analyzing results or presenting conclusions. At
each stage, challenge them to explain their reasoning and defend results.
Citations:
Generating and testing hypotheses. (2005). Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/strategies/gene.php
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good critique of the activity! There was no opportunity to support inquiry learning!
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