Breaking the ice
Thinking routine: The garden gate
We are going to start a new project which is going to take us around two weeks of our Science lessons. To start with it we will do the following thinking routine to discover all the things we know about matter before starting the whole topic.
The routine it is called The Garden Gate (download in editable odp format, download in pdf).
- At the graphic organizer write down the topic: MATTER.
- Watch the following video.
- At the graphic organizer try to write down some ideas you can get from the video, you can write each idea into board of the gate. They will be ideas that will open your mind to the new topic.
- Share your ideas with your mates.
Thinking about my learning
One of the most important things in our learning processes is to reflex about it to improve as much as we can. For that purpose we can create a Learning Diary in which we are going to reflect about how everything is going along this project.
For the learning we can choose different options:
- Create a shared document with our teacher.
- Use any tool like padlet to show our progress.
- Use a notebook in which we can write.
Everyday at the end of each lesson we will write on our Learning Diary answering the following questions:
- Date.
- What have I done?
- What problems did I have? How did I solve these problems?
- What have I learnt?
- How can I improve my learning for the next lesson?
- Do I want to learn a bit more about something?
Our teacher will check it and give to us some feedback to help your improvements.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License 4.0