OpenSciEd Unit 6.3 · Lesson 10 · 10.B
Look for: Students should clearly identify what is repr…
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Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
Building towards
10.B Evaluate the limitations of the thunderstorm simulation, identifying which aspects of the system are represented in the model and which additional aspects could be added to account for thunderstorm development.
What to look / listen for
Students should clearly identify what is represented in the model related to storm development, and also ideas for things that could be added, such as sunlight data, ground absorption, presence of CCN, and so forth.
What to do
If students struggle to represent other ideas in the simulation, challenge them with questions such as, Where is the energy coming from that heats the ground? The air? How does water in the air form a cloud? What does it need? Prompt them to look back in their science notebook at previous lessons to pull in other ideas they recorded earlier in the unit.