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Primary Subject - Science
Grade Level - 1-3
POSE A SCENARIO:
The teacher will read the following scenario to the students:
There once was a creature who just loved to go for walks, go swimming, or just lie around and do absolutely nothing. He even liked to go bungi-jumping on sunny summer days. However, there was something strange about this creature. Whenever anyone would come over to see him, they would never be seen again! Whenever he would come outside to greet his neighbors, they would run away. He just couldn't understand why no one liked him. You could find this creature spending many hours constructing his own home.
The teacher will pose the following questions after having read the above scenario.
1. Why do you think no one liked this creature?
2. Why do you think he had a hard time making friends?
3. When he had friends over to visit, why were they never seen again?
4. Where do you think this creature lives?
5. Why did he have to build his own home?
PROCEDURE:
The teacher will go over to a chart where she already has a list of questions that she will pose, one at a time, to her students (see the five questons listed above). The students will try to formulate a tentative hypothesis about the lesson. Then the teacher will ask how many of the children are ready to look at the clues that would help them to begin to solve the mystery of this unknown creature. The students should remember to keep in mind their tentative hypothesis while the clues are being read. They must be reminded that the clues must support their hypothesis and if they don't, they have to be willing to change their hypothesis. The clues are then passed out to each group.
The students will be arranged in groups of four and they will decide who will distribute the clues, who will read, record, and be in charge of keeping the group on task. The students will gather and record this information in their own individual notebooks.
CLUES:
· Some look scary
· Some are harmful, some are not
· Some are helpful, some are not
· Some are big, some are little
· Some are brown, while others can be red, yellow, or even black
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