Talk and Writing
At this stage in the unit, the students will be Expressing Ideas. The table below shows specific talk and writing goals for this phase of the unit.
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Talk and Writing Goals for Expressing Ideas Phase |
Teacher Talk Strategies that Support this Goal |
Curriculum Components that Support this Goal |
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Treat this as brainstorming and elicitation. |
Remember, there are no “right” answers at this point. We want to hear all ideas. |
Unit Pretest My Students’ Answers |
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Listen for ideas about what is happening to matter and energy at different scales. |
Where did the energy come from? Where does the matter go next? Are you talking about matter or energy? What about the atomic-molecular scale? What about the cellular scale? |
Unit Pretest Expressing Ideas and Questions Process Tool |
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Listen for a wide range of student ideas. Press for more complete ideas. |
Who can add to that? What do you mean by _____? Say more. So I think you said _____. Is that right? |
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Have students compare, contrast, and document their ideas. |
Who has a different idea? How are those ideas similar/different? Who can rephrase ________’s idea? Let’s record our ideas so we can come back to them and see how our ideas change. |
Sticky notes on the class poster Activity 1.2 Presentation |
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Encourage students to provide evidence for their ideas. |
How do you know that? What have you seen in the world that makes you think that? |
Sticky notes on the class poster. |