First, let me apologize for posting so late. I thought I had finished this. For my visual of inquiry, I used Tagul because the other two sites would not work on my tablet. Tagul was fun to use and easy to use. For the definition, I think inquiry is letting the students go with guiding question. The teacher's role is to give some background information and to activate the students' curiosity. The students need to find their path to discover the process of learning all they can learn. I really like when Laramy compared the teacher to Yoda. That is our job in a nutshell. We need to let the students find their path, with the teacher pushing them to keep going, to dig deeper.
For my mini-lesson, I have been contemplating different ideas. I believe I am going with a science lesson on completing a science experiment. First lesson, I will let the students come up with a topic for their experiment emphasizing the point to make sure it is something they could actually complete. Next lesson, I will talk about plagiarism and let the students work through the curated list of plagiarism resources. The final lesson, I would take the students on a field trip to the public library. Once there, the librarian will show the students around so they can find different types of information. The rest of the time I will let the students find information on their topic. The assessment would be to host a science fair for the school so the student can display their experiment and their results. I will be adding and thinking through different ideas for the eight principles.
I am thinking now that maybe I will do my mini-lessons with a social studies theme. I think I will have the students choose a person from history to research. This will be for a third grade class. The students will research the person and create a timeline of important events in the person's life or maybe the students can write a story about the day in the life of the person and then decorate a memory box with 3 things that are significant to the person. I will start with the lesson on plagiarism, then have a field trip to the public library to find out where they can find the information and then end with the student dressing as the person and reading their story and showing their box and inviting different grades to come on different days to act as the audience along with parents, grandparents or friends.
For my mini-lesson, I have been contemplating different ideas. I believe I am going with a science lesson on completing a science experiment. First lesson, I will let the students come up with a topic for their experiment emphasizing the point to make sure it is something they could actually complete. Next lesson, I will talk about plagiarism and let the students work through the curated list of plagiarism resources. The final lesson, I would take the students on a field trip to the public library. Once there, the librarian will show the students around so they can find different types of information. The rest of the time I will let the students find information on their topic. The assessment would be to host a science fair for the school so the student can display their experiment and their results. I will be adding and thinking through different ideas for the eight principles.
I am thinking now that maybe I will do my mini-lessons with a social studies theme. I think I will have the students choose a person from history to research. This will be for a third grade class. The students will research the person and create a timeline of important events in the person's life or maybe the students can write a story about the day in the life of the person and then decorate a memory box with 3 things that are significant to the person. I will start with the lesson on plagiarism, then have a field trip to the public library to find out where they can find the information and then end with the student dressing as the person and reading their story and showing their box and inviting different grades to come on different days to act as the audience along with parents, grandparents or friends.