Lesson 1 - Monday, Feb 5 (All periods)
Focus Question: Why does the temperature of the liquid in some cup systems change more than in others?
What We Did…
Dr. Merritt returned students’ CCT #5 Google Doc to students with an Effort grade of 1 to 5. Students then had a chance to improve and resubmit their Doc before the end of the lesson.
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Lesson 2 - Tues, Feb 6 (B & E) & Wed, Feb 7 (G)
Focus Question: Why does the temperature of the liquid in some cup systems change more than in others?
What We Did…
With their 60-minute lesson, half of B period’s students were asked to perform their student-designed CCT#5 during today’s lesson. The reason only half of the class did so was because of the need for teams to share the (8) available digital thermometers. Those students unable to do their investigation today were asked to support the active, investigating teams.
With their 40-minute lesson (which was shortened due to an afternoon drama performance), E period students collected their materials and began amending their Google Documents with additional writing (in this case a “Introduction” section), so that they can perform their investigations in the next lesson.
With their 60-minute lesson, G period students completed their CCT#5 investigation.
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Lesson 3 - Wed, Feb 7 (B) & Thurs, Feb 8 (E & G)
Focus Question: Why does the temperature of the liquid in some cup systems change more than in others?
What We Did…
The remaining half of B period’s students were asked to perform their student-designed CCT#5 during today’s lesson. Those students who managed to do their investigation in Lesson 2 were either 1) asked to support an active, investigating team, or 2) begin answering, in their science notebook, the 8Ia: Hot stuff questions in the Exploring Science 8 book (pp. 120-121, 1-7).
E period students completed their CCT#5 investigation.
G period students were asked to transfer (but also to properly format) the temperature measurements made during their investigation into the data tables in their Google Doc. In the last part of the lesson, Dr. M asked students to create a new section in their document called the “RESULTS” section, and to write one-sentence summaries describing what happened to the water–or air–temperature during their experiment. In other words, students were asked to write a sentence based on the temperature results seen in each column of their data table. Because many students did not know how to create this type of sentence in the scientific style, Dr. M said we would practice writing these together during the next science lesson.
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Lesson 4 - Thurs, Feb 8 (B) & Fri, Feb 9 (E & G)
Focus Question: Why does the temperature of the liquid in some cup systems change more than in others?
What We Did…
B & E period students were asked to transfer (but also to properly format) the temperature measurements made during their investigation into the data tables in their Google Doc. In the last part of the lesson, Dr. M asked students to create a new section in their document called the “RESULTS” section, and to write one-sentence summaries describing what happened to the water–or air–temperature during their experiment. In other words, students were asked to write a sentence based on the temperature results seen in each column of their data table.
Half of the G period students were absent today. This meant that the attending students were able to work in teams of three and challenged to perform a CCT investigation, CCT#6, of their own design with the limit of a 60-minute period. The two teams had mixed success in terms of design and execution with neither team able to design and execute an investigation that yielded much insight into our Driving Question (see pink box below).
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The DRIVING QUESTION of our current unit is: How can containers keep stuff from warming up or cooling down?
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