Think about the resources available and how the teachers actually used them.
1.How well are they matched to the instruction?
2.What role do technology based
resources play?
Wallace McManus is introducing the scientific method to his fifth grade class. He has used his computer to create a worksheet for his students that identifies steps in the process, including formulating and testing hypotheses. Learning stations are set up around the room where students find containers of water, several dry and wet ingredients, a heating element, and some ice. Wallace plans to have the students propose hypotheses about how the different materials will react to each other and at different temperatures. The students will write down observations in their lab notebooks as they walk around the room and later record their responses on their worksheets. Wallace knows this is a good lab for students to experience, although inevitably some of them tend to be kind of messy while completing the various activities.
