Biome Challenge Breakdown
Goal: To teach the rest of the class about your selected biome and assess their understanding.
Lesson plans due May 28th.
Products: A lesson plan detailing what you will teach and how you will assess student knowledge.
Process:
- Determine the top 3 biomes you would like to research with your group: Savannah, desert, tundra, rainforest, grasslands, or deciduous forests.
- Within group, research the various parts of your biome, such as: people, climate, plants, animals, locations. You decide what the most important parts are.
- Use sources from the library as well as from our LiveBinder to research.
- You can team teach or you can do it by yourself. Each lesson has to have its own lesson plan.
- Work on extension project for teaching, ideas are: PPT, Prezi, Animoto, Posters, diorama, terrariums, movies. You are the teacher, how would you like to be taught about a biome? Make it interesting.
- Work on how you will assess the students learning. How will you know you did a good job teaching them about your biome? Ideas for assessment include: question sheet, asking questions, have students write what they learned, have students draw/diagram their learning, have them write a song, create a concept map, do a compare/contrast, check their pre-knowledge and then their post-knowledge, true or false, word search, definition match, crossword, write a blog post that talks about your learning, solve a problem, student choice
- You need to know your facts as the teacher, figure out who will do what etc.
Day of presentation:
- Students will be asked to do a mini-reflection on how the lesson went: Was it interesting? How was the speed/pace? Could you hear/see? Did you learn something? Suggestions?
- Group presents and then meets as a group to start their group and individual reflection. Questions to reflect upon include:
- What went well?
- How successful was it with the audience?
- What didn’t go as planned?
- What did not work?
- Did the tools created help support the learning?
- Was your lesson hands on?
- If not?
- What would you do differently?
- Once group has reflected, they meet with me to discuss how it went, how they would improve etc. We also use this time to digest student evaluations.
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