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ENGAGE

1. Create a model to explain a scientific phenomena.

2. Add a picture of you model in the green space below.

3. Revise your model to reflect your new learning.

Phenomena

Initial Model

Updated Model

✅ Small Group Models

Create a model to show your initial thoughts about the scientific phenomena. Add a picture of your model here.

Update your model after some learning. Add a picture of your revised model here.

Revise your model or draw a new one of your gained scientific thinking around the phenomena. Add a picture of your revised model here.

Final Model

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EXPLORE

✅ Sticky Note

Peer Feedback

Green=

Revising

an

Idea

Orange=

Adding

an

Idea

Purple=

Posing

a

Question

Helpful Feedback gives

Someone ideas to think

more about to improve

their work

Before adding comments, Ask Yourself:

Is it Helpful or Is It Nice?

Add Picture of Model Here

Insert -> Image -> Camera

Review your peers’ models.
Use the appropriate colored sticky note to give different types of feedback to the model.
Take a picture of your model with stickies add to work area.

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EXPLAIN

Teacher draws basic representation of the scientific phenomena.
Then teacher adds students’ thinking to the models including labels.
New learning is periodically added to the model throughout the unit.

Initial Class Model

Revise Class Model

New Evidence

Experimenting

Learning

✅ Whole Class Consensus

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ELABORATE

✅ Sentence Frame Self-Reflection

Choose 1 Sentence Frame. Copy it and elaborate in the student work space:

My first version of my model taught me…

The biggest change from my first version to my current version was…

My current version reflects....

Choose 1 sentence frame to use to guide your reflection.
Copy it into the student workspace and elaborate on your learning process.

Add Sentence Frame And Reflect (where you started and where you are now)

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⚡️

EVALUATE

Create a table to summarize the changes represented by your models over time.

Activities We Did

What patterns did we observe?

What do you think caused those patterns?

How do these patterns help us think about the Phenomena?

✅ Summary Tables

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