It was a 100% YES! from the class when Mrs. Brinza has the class if they felt they had answered the Driving Question for the unit: Where does our clean water come from and where does it go once we make it dirty?
So when asked if they wanted to go big or go home, students said, GO BIG!
We brainstormed parts to the answer to our DQ (our model trackers really helped with this), assigned parts of the model tables, and each table was responsible for creating that part of the model. We put all the pieces together to show our our scientific models and explanations...AS A CLASS...could answer our Driving Question! Here are the students working at the beginning and middle of model-making:
So when asked if they wanted to go big or go home, students said, GO BIG!
We brainstormed parts to the answer to our DQ (our model trackers really helped with this), assigned parts of the model tables, and each table was responsible for creating that part of the model. We put all the pieces together to show our our scientific models and explanations...AS A CLASS...could answer our Driving Question! Here are the students working at the beginning and middle of model-making:
And here are our FINAL models!