What is the value of having students pose and investigate their own questions?
-This allows students to make it a question that excites them and is something that interest them. Instead of the teacher assigning a standard class wide question. It also teaches the students how to work together to make a decision. Once they decide on a question as a class and start investigating it allows them to talk to classmates that they might not usually talk to or find out that they have something in common with a fellow classmate. Along with forming great data collecting skills it is over all a great lesson for students of all ages.
—How could this lesson be modified for use with older students?
- I could be modified to older students by making the graphing part more advanced depending on the grade level. You could also do what we are doing in class if it is fifth grade and make it for each individual student and make it into a project a poster type of lesson.
If you were implementing this lesson with students, what would you change? Why?-
-I honestly would not change anything, I think this teacher did a great job of making it grade level appropriate with the pictures and the coloring of blocks for the graph.
