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In my science classroom, my students engage in inquiry-based learning where they ask a lot of questions and create conceptional models based upon real-world phenomena. To facilitate this style of learning, my students will use a large whiteboard. The whiteboards will provide a medium on which my students can use both words and pictures to demonstrate their thinking, collaborate with their classmates, and make revisions as their understanding of the science behind the phenomena grows. After observing a specific phenomenon, students will work in groups of 4 or 5 and create an initial conceptional model to explain the science behind what they saw or heard. Each student will have a whiteboard marker of their own so they all have the opportunity to contribute to the model. The students will return to their whiteboards throughout the unit, and make revisions and add details as necessary. By the end of each unit, the students will have constructed a conceptual model that uses both words and pictures/graphs to accurately explain a concept that once seemed foreign and complicated.

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In my science classroom, my students engage in inquiry-based learning where they ask a lot of questions and create conceptional models based upon real-world phenomena. To facilitate this style of learning, my students will use a large whiteboard. The whiteboards will provide a medium on which my students can use both words and pictures to demonstrate their thinking, collaborate with their classmates, and make revisions as their understanding of the science behind the phenomena grows. After observing a specific phenomenon, students will work in groups of 4 or 5 and create an initial conceptional model to explain the science behind what they saw or heard. Each student will have a whiteboard marker of their own so they all have the opportunity to contribute to the model. The students will return to their whiteboards throughout the unit, and make revisions and add details as necessary. By the end of each unit, the students will have constructed a conceptual model that uses both words and pictures/graphs to accurately explain a concept that once seemed foreign and complicated.

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