OpenSciEd Unit 7.1 · Lesson 08 · 8.A
Look for: preparing to engage in the reading by recordi…
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Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
Building towards
8.A Ask questions related to the development of alternate models for what is happening to the matter at a particle level (patterns) when old substances interact to produce new substances by combining or rearranging parts/particles (systems and system models), and determine ways we might go about investigating these ideas.
What to look / listen for
Students
preparing to engage in the reading by recording the individual questions they have before starting it, in their individual Progress Trackers,
annotating the reading as they read or after a second pass, and
recording what they feel they have figured out from the reading in their individual Progress Trackers.
What to do
Though we expect that given an opportunity to create individual questions many of these questions students generate will be in the space of “can particles of a new substance be formed out of the particles of an old substance in the ways we’ve come up with?”, you might find some students develop a different line of questions. That is OK. As a reminder, individual Progress Trackers are not an assessment to be graded. The purpose instead is as a space for students to organize their thoughts. Here we want students to have that space before they go into the reading so that the purpose of it is student-question driven.