The Living, Nonliving, Dead lab was a nice introduction to the instructional shift of providing opportunities for students to figure out concepts on their own. It is hard for most of us to not correct students as they go through this process. However, the final class list of characteristics of living things culminates the activity to make sure students do not walk away with misconceptions and the student created slide shows at the end provided evidence of their accuracy in understanding.
I know that Lynn found one station where she stayed while the students rotated through. This allowed her to connect with every student, look at their characteristics and begin addressing misconceptions. And of course, they had them!
We will add more to this on Monday when Jen and I meet.
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