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Daily Lesson Organization: A general overview of daily lesson organization.

 

Teaching Model: A learner centered conceptual Change construction model.

 
Unit Objectives: Unit objectives, main ideas, and benchmarks

 
Unit Concepts: Ideal Student Response to the central questions: How do plants get their food? What is food for plants?

 
Student Ideas : Students ideas about plants, their beliefs and conceptions.

 
List of Activities : Teacher and Student Activities developed from the Phases of the Conceptual Change Model
Engage and Elicit Activities: Engage student's interest in a central question and Elicit their ideas about the question.
Explore and Challenge Activities: Explore phenomena to test and challenge students' initial ideas
Present and Contrast Activities: Present new ideas and Contrast with student's Initial ideas.
Apply Activities: Apply and Use new ideas in multiple and varied contexts with Teacher Modeling Appropriate Thinking, then Coaching student, then Fading Support.
Reflect and Connect Activities : Reflect and Connect initial ideas and new ideas, tracing each student's conceptual change.
Pre & Post Tests : Gauging responses

 
Sample MEAP Questions : What students need to know

 
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