SESSION 2 

Session 2 Focus Question: How can we engage students in making their thinking visible?

Prework

• Spinach Leaf Disk Investigation

• STeLLA Strategies 1, 2, and 3

• Meta Moment

Session 2 Agenda and Resources

• Opening

• Getting Hands-on with the Power of Sunlight Experimental Results

  • Synthesis Jamboard

• STeLLA Strategy 1, 2, 3 Discussion

  • STeLLA Jamboard

  • ECP Question Video Transcript

• PoS Module: Spinach Leaf Disk Experiment Part 2 Introduction

• Personal Reflections

Asynchronous Tasks:

Prior to the next session, complete the  following activities:

Team Tasks

• Investigation
  Conduct the experiment for the Hands-on with the Power of Sunlight activity: Spinach Leaf Disk part 2

  • Design your experiment using the spinach leaf-disk floatation method. 

  • In general, the design will be to compare what happens to leaf disks in light compared with dark (including a carbon source). 

  • Work with your team to think about your experimental design (student guide, step 4, page 21). 

  • The second part of this investigation focuses on the questions in Step 7. In step 8, work with teammates to determine some of the details of the investigation. 

Individual Tasks:

• STeLLA Strategies 5, 7, F 

  • Strategy 5: Engage students in analyzing and data and observations

  • Strategy F: Make explicit links between science ideas and activities

  • Strategy 7: Engage students to construct explanations and arguments

• Video

  • Watch the Lessons from Thin Air Video  and respond to the discussion forum post below

• Discussion Forum Posts (This link will take you directly to the group forum for Session 2.)
  Respond to each discussion post in the forum

  • S2 Forum Post #1: How is what you have experienced in this module so far similar to and different from how students usually learn about photosynthesis & cellular respiration?

  • S2 Forum Post #2: Lessons from Thin Air Video (segment 3:21 - 17:38)

    • As you watch the clip from the Minds of Our Own video think about the investigations we have done and the conversations about student thinking

    • What are the implications of the information in the video on student thinking and sense making in the classroom?

            When you are done, go back and comment on at least two of your colleagues' posts.

• Daily Survey

• Complete the Meta Moment (5 min)
  Reflect on today’s learning experiences in  your journal:

  • What did you learn?

  • How did you learn it?

  • What do you want to be sure to remember as you implement the module?

  • Revisit your initial response to the focus question: How do we engage students in making their thinking visible?