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Ms. Coufal reading workshop

From watching the video, I was able to see that Emma Coufal is an amazing teacher. She teaches her students lots of different strategies. Her students seemed like they really enjoyed learning and reading. Ms. Coufal makes her lessons engaging, motivating, and fun for all her students.

Ms. Coufal used “picture power” to predict a word based on looking at the picture, and the first letter. I really enjoyed the game “popin” where students “pop” the first sound in a word. This helped them with phonemic awareness. They used the picture in a book to determine an unknown word.  She uses the concept of “super heroes” to use with “super powers”. I liked the idea that she makes her students wear “witch pointer” on their finger. This makes it exciting for students to follow along and be engaged in the lesson. During independent reading and when the students are with their partner, Ms. Coufal goes around the classroom and assesses her students (informal assessments). She observes her students reading and marks down the students reading level. She explains to her students what it means to be a good partner, students sit side by side so they can help each other. I liked that at the end of the lesson she makes her students pat themselves on the back for doing such a wonderful job. Ms. Coufal creates an environment that makes school a lot of fun, she is a teacher that puts in a lot of patience and effort in her students.

Rubric

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Human Impact on Water Quality

Desired Results:

Students will be able to

  Identify the key factors that influence water quality

·         Explain how human activities can change the balance of a water ecosystem and affect the survival of organisms

·         Identify the relationships among factors affecting water quality

·         Explain how a factor affects the living organisms in a water ecosystem

·         Use credible cyber resources for data collection

·         Use ICTs to facilitate the process of identifying scientifically testable questions and locating valuable and accurate information

·         Use ICTs to support data organization, data analysis and data presentation, and draw conclusions

·         Use ICTs to communicate findings to the learning community using various media formats

Acceptable Evidence

·         Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem

·         Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.

·         Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

Learning Activities

Day one- Pre inquiry discussion

·         Students will be grouped and brainstorm using their prior knowledge the effect of water quality on human activity.

·         Teacher will provide the students with overall strategies for conducting effective internet searches.

·         Students will research the direct and indirect impact of human behaviors on water ecosystems.

·         Students will then discuss its findings with the rest of the class.

Day two- Model the structured inquiry process

·         The teacher will model to the class the inquiry process.

Day three- Scaffold students guided inquiry research process

·         Teacher should guide students to develop scientifically researchable questions through researching on the internet and formulate the hypothesis by asking questions.

Day four- Initiated open-inquiry research process

·         Students will form a research question and a hypothesis.

·         They will then collect water-quality data from public cyber databases and examine their hypothesis using the evidence.

·         Students will enter their data in a spreadsheet and analyze it, create charts. They will examine their hypothesis and own conclusions. They will then share their findings with the rest of the class.