FINAL REFLECTION LESSON PLAN’S 1-3 Nadirah Abdallah Inquiry One: Exploring the Sandbox • For my first Inquiry I told the children that we would be mixing water with dry sand. In the sandbox I had a barrier between wet sand and dry sand, by having small containers filled with water and a eyedroppers. • The students were discovering how when water touches the dry sand it turns to wet sand. • I had the students observe the way the sand feels to them, and explain to me what it felt like to them. I also had the children explore the sand by mushing the sand together to see if it would stick easier with wet or dry sand. Inquiry One: Pictures Inquiry Two: Building In the Sandbox • For Inquiry two the children were building different types of shapes using small/large containers • The children were building different shapes using wet sand. • The big idea in Inquiry Two was seeing if the children could build using different sizes of containers. • Children enjoyed Inquiry Two, because they were role playing while building using the containers. For example “Two of the girls would say that they are baking small cupcakes using the small containers, because it was a shape of a circle”. • Other children were using the large containers to create towers, because they were building their own sand castles. Inquiry Two: Pictures Inquiry Two: Pictures Cont. Inquiry Two: Videos Inquiry Three: Building with Cornstarch Popcorn • For my Inquiry Three I continued working towards the big idea which was “Building using different types of materials”. • I brought in Cornstarch Popcorn for the students to build with using water as a tool to stick them together. • They had a sponge cutup into little pieces so they could damp water onto them so they could stick the popcorn together. • By this the children were able to create different shapes. I had a student build a person that looked like a snowman. • Some of the children enjoyed just mushing them together and exploring how it feels to them. Inquiry Three: Pictures Final Reflection • The big idea with all three lessons was to explore on building using different types of materials • Each Inquiry tied into each other, because I built on the concept of building . • I’ve learned that the children understand on building off the concept of lesson tieing into another. • What I didn’t know about the big idea is the level developmental that children have, because I wasn’t sure if they could think beyond the standards that I was giving them to work on. They were building on concepts beyond just building on basic shapes.
