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Learning about the Constitution

Group 1 Inquiry!

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On Thursday, February 12, Group 1 conducted their Inquiry lesson plan where the students followed a WebQuest. To begin the lesson, the teachers had the students log onto Google Classroom. This took much longer than they expected and it really took away from the lesson. At first, I thought it was taking so long because the students were doing a pre-assessment on there. However, after they finally logged on, the teachers had the students do a Kahoot! for a pre-assessment. The idea was good, but it didn't turn out so great in practice. The students, as you might expect, got too excited playing the game and I think it got the teachers a bit more frazzled after their technical difficulties. This lead to some chaos in the room. I must commend them on how they were able to recover and get the students to be so quiet while they were working on their independent practice. All of the students were practically silent and diligently working. The students seemed very interested in what they were learning about the constitution. I wish the students had the opportunity to collaborate with each other. I felt like 40 minutes of silence was much too long for fifth graders. Group 1 had mentioned at the end that they had planned for the student to have an opportunity to share what they found with each other, but they did not have enough time because of the set-up. Overall, I think the objective of the lesson was meet, which is the most important part. The students who presented their newspaper articles to the class had very intelligent and well-informed answers about the constitution. Congratulations on two lessons done Group 1.

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