- Now consider your role as
facilitator. Can you construct the ‘scaffold’ of the lesson? For example what resources will you need to help the students investigate your questions?
- Are there sufficient books in the library?
- If so, which ones are worthwhile? Identify them.
- Can you book time in the library for the students?
- Will the children have access to the Internet? Do you need to book the computer lab?
- If so, can you focus the students on a number of quality sites? Which ones?
- Are you going to encourage them to look for information at home?
- If so, should you alert the parents to their needs?
- Are you going to encourage them to create their own evidence using digital cameras, video or cell phones to document their environment?
- Again are you going to alert parents to this requirement?
- Once they have collected data you will need to facilitate the reporting of their findings and helping them draw conclusions.
- Do the students have a range of tools to help them organize their data? (Remember Gardiner’s theories?)
- Do they have a range of choices on how to report to the class? What is acceptable?
- How will you organize them so that they have opportunities to work together to organize their reports.
- Are the students required to present their findings.
Teachers should be able to implement collaborative, while providing guidance to students towards the successful completion of their projects and the attainment of a deep understanding of key concepts (KD.3.f).
Total 8 hours
