Video Professional Development Series:
Was the Scientific Revolution
Revolutionary?
Guiding Reflection Questions
Please use any and all reflection questions to guide your conversation around this video
Lesson details:
Lesson Title
Was the Scientific Revolution Revolutionary?
Teacher, School
Greg Ahlquist, Webster Thomas High School
Grade
12
Content
European History
Standards of Focus
RH.12.1
RH.12.6
RH.12.7
1. Standard Specific Questions
What evidence can be collected from this video that shows the standards addressed in
this lesson?
RH.12.1 – Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary
sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the
text as a whole.
RH.12.6 – Evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event or
issue by assessing the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.
RH.12.7 – Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in
different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words in order to
address a question or solve a problem.
CORE ACTION 1: Focus each lesson on a high quality text (or multiple texts). What
evidence can be collected from this video that a high quality text was selected?
1. What evidence can be collected to reflect how the text(s) build knowledge relevant to the
content being studied?
CORE ACTION 2: Employ questions and tasks that are text dependent and text specific.
What evidence can be collected that the teacher used questions and tasks that are text
dependent and text specific?
2. What types of questions and/or tasks from this lesson require students to cite evidence
from the text to support analysis, inference, and claims?
CORE ACTION 3: Provide all students with opportunities to engage in the work of the
lesson. What evidence can be collected that shows that student were given opportunities
to engage in the work of the lesson?
3. In what ways did the teacher expect evidence and precision from students and probes
students’ answers accordingly?
OVERALL Extension Question: What feedback would you provide this teacher to continue
growing toward stretching students toward increased independence?
See text from ELA standards, "competencies of a literate individual":
Students can, without significant scaffolding, comprehend and evaluate complex texts across a
range of types and disciplines, and they can construct effective arguments and convey intricate
or multi-faceted information. Likewise, students are able independently to discern a speaker’s
key points, request clarification, and ask relevant questions. They build on others’ ideas,
articulate their own ideas, and confirm they have been understood. Without prompting, they
demonstrate command of standard English and acquire and use a wide-ranging vocabulary.
More broadly, they become self-directed learners, effectively seeking out and using resources to
assist them, including teachers, peers, and print and digital reference materials.