With all our thoughts and questions becoming vivid after establishing our initial consensus model, we needed to publicly document students' questions! We agreed that this would help with our norm focused on equity, and hearing from everyone would hold stake in our figuring-out process.
Each student shared a question about the window-mirror phenomenon, their initial model to explain how it worked, the consensus model we established as a class, or the related phenomena list we created. Look at these great questions!
Each student shared a question about the window-mirror phenomenon, their initial model to explain how it worked, the consensus model we established as a class, or the related phenomena list we created. Look at these great questions!
How do we figure out the answers to these questions? By coming up with investigations, of course! After a thoughtful conversation about how real scientists answer their own questions, we agreed that "looking up answers on Google" isn't something that scientists do to answer their questions, as what they're trying to figure out often doesn't have answers out on the internet. We agreed to answer our questions like real scientists do (our phenomenon is age and developmentally appropriate), and check out these investigation ideas!
We agreed to use the scale models again, and this time focus on what's happening when we switch the light. We've got some ideas about what might happen, and we'll be using what we find to hopefully gather more evidence about how the mirror-window works!