8staters and a quick recap of what they already knew about the heart I
asked them to create a mind map of what they knew about the heart.
They ink think paired and shared their ideas as a whole class. A few of
the children were called upon to give feedback. The
The formative assessment helped me to understand and informed me a
range of children in the class . Some of them had basic knowledge and
some had quite advanced knowledge using high level
technical.vocabulary to describe the heart
5 MINUTES
To engage and hook the students I have them read the following
statement.
A City of Cells
Think of your body as a city of cells. Each cell is like a house. A house
needs fuel, energy, water, and raw materials. A house must also have a
sewer system and garbage pickup to get rid of wastes. Your body must
take in needed materials and get rid of waste materials just like a house
does.
Once students have read the statement, they complete a Journal Writing in
their science notebook.
Journal Writing (5 min)
What makes a delivery system efficient? Imagine you are in charge of a
package delivery service. What things might make your job harder? What
things might make your job easier? What would be the most
important parts of a successful deliverycompany? Write a paragraph to
explain your ideas, and include any lists, diagrams, or drawings that help
your explanation.
The objective of the journal writing is for students to begin to start thinking
about efficient delivery systems. In this lesson students will be introduced
to our delivery system, the circulatory system.
After writing, students volunteer to share their writing with the class.
I end this section of this lesson by telling students that we have a delivery
system in our bodies that is as efficient as it's important. I show them the
picture Of the curculatory and tell that that we they will be introduced to the
circulatory system in todays lesson.
Explain
10 MINUTES
In this section of the lesson I show students an animation, which discusses
the three main components of the circulatory system (blood, blood vessels,
and heart). Animation does a great job of explaining how all three parts
depend on one another to create an efficient system. I had 1hr 30 minutes
hence my decision to use 12 questions to ensure I actively engage the
children for 30 minutes for this exercise. I played the video in between the
lesson paused and replayed to ensure the children wete able to get most if
not all if the answers which the high achievers were able to do. This was
where my differentiation was introduced. I expected All children to answer
5 questions. Most should answer 7 to 8 questions and some could answer
all 12 questions.
As students watch the video, they answer the following questions:
1) The red blood cell ride the highways of the _____________
_____________.
2) What shape comes to mind when you hear the word circulatory?
3) What circulates around our bodies everyday?
4) What is the name given to the small "tunnels" found in our bodies?
5) What do arteries carry? What do veins carry?
6) How does our blood move?
7) At least how many times does your heart beat?
8) Name all the "rooms" found in the heart.
9) What do red blood cells need to pick up before making deliveries?
Where do they pick up this package?
10) What color does the red blood cell change to after it's dropped
oxygen?
11) What does the red blood cell pick up after it's dropped off all its
oxygen?
12) Where does this new package end up in? What do you think the lungs
do with this package?
Note: The reason I chose this video over one that goes into more detail is
that this is an introductory lesson to the circulatory system. Each of the
components will be discussed in more detail in other lessons in unit.
We take a moment to look at the meaning of the image. I said
circulatory system is like the streets of a city, with lots of blood flowing
through the streets to and from different destinations to all parts of the
body.
Plenary- I asked the children to write 1 thing they learnt in the lesson and
1thing they would like to learn in the next lesson.
The lesson ended at 2.p.m
I would like to request Mr Anderw mann to conduct a science workshop or
inset or even teach snd model a science lesson ehich sre part of his
responsibilities as thr science coordinator but of course he xanobly submit
robust end of year robust board reports with great ideas on paoers but lirtle
or no effect on teachinganf lrarning in thr.school.or as a teacher ehta
positive inpact as ge had. This is an era of lies and more lies to cover
ignorance and persecute perceived
Maths lesson
I was
As the childrn walked into the classroom I asked them to complete anagrams to decode words
related to the topic that will be taught. This was to immediately hook the children wuth a thinking
and reflectivw activity to catch tjeir attention and become eengaged which thoroughly worked. All
tje children started to crack their brainto decipher what the words meant. A few of the choldren
were able to unscramble the anagrams as chords, arcs and tangents after giving them multiple clues
none if them were able to decode tangent .
We moved onto the starter
