After sharing statistics on cell phone damage with 6th graders, the stories about their own phones or others phones getting damaged were flying around the room! We agreed we wanted to recreate some of these scenarios, and instead of using real phones, some CD cases would suffice!
So a lucky two students from each class got to recreate their "cell phone breaking" story!
So a lucky two students from each class got to recreate their "cell phone breaking" story!
From these experiences, we all agreed we had related experiences. Everyone had a chance to think about a time when two things collided and either produced damage, or didn't produce damage (surprisingly)! We categorized our related phenomena into three categories:
As always, we try to explain what's going on, so students were asked to make initial models for a collision of their choice, regardless of damage:
After sharing with a partner, students are seeing that there are lots of similarities, differences, and questions that are coming out! Next steps: Our Initial Consensus Model and DQB!