Series Ecosystems: An NGSS-Designed Unit : Use Posters to Encourage Collaborative Thinking

Ecosystems: An NGSS-Designed Unit

People and Animals Interacting

Ecological Interactions

Patterns of Interaction Among Organisms

Living and Non-Living Factors in Ecosystems

Analyzing Patterns in Ecosystems

Disrupting Ecosystems with Wolves

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Use Posters to Encourage Collaborative Thinking

Lesson Objective: Engage students in learning about a new topic

Grades 6-8 / Science / Collaboration

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What type of questions are students asked to answer?
How do students reflect on the responses on the posters?
How could you adapt this strategy for use in your classroom?

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Michael Burnett Jun 12, 2020 2:19pm

What type of questions are students asked to answer?
Basic Who/What/When/Where/Why questions that proide a wide range of answers.
How do students reflect on the responses on the posters?
They observe the other posters and look for similarities and differences. They then comment on their work and others' work.
How could you adapt this strategy for use in your classroom?
This would be good for introducing new concepts in tech theatre at the beginning of learning units.

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Cade Patterson Aug 23, 2019 12:32pm

Using a poster before starting a new chapter or concept is a great way to get students involved. Using the posters allows the students to get engaged and see what they know about the topic and what they would like to know. This strategy is a great one to keep in mind for new teachers like myself to gets students involved.

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Pauline Vidrine Sep 26, 2018 6:37pm

Student Engagement:

Lessons should be planned with activities that engage all students. Using small posters in any subject area can create a classroom which involves and engages all students. Students that are not engaged, sit passively during lessons and become occasional discipline problems. More importantly, they do not learn the content or skills involved in the lesson if they are not engaged. Watch the video(Use Posters to encourage collaborative thinking) and then discuss how you might use this strategy in your classroom (in the subject area that you teach).

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Use Posters to Encourage Collaborative Thinking Transcript
Sabrina V.P.: People and animals interacting. That's the beginning of our unit.
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Use Posters to Encourage Collaborative Thinking Transcript
Sabrina V.P.: People and animals interacting. That's the beginning of our unit.
Sabrina V.P.: We're going to start off with making a poster to answer all these questions as a team.
Sabrina V.P.: After you finish this in 10 minutes, we are all going to tape our posters on the very back of the room and observe our answers to these questions.
Sabrina V.P.: The person who is going to be recording on the poster today is person number four. I don't need it to look pretty.
Speaker 2: Okay let's get started.
Speaker 3: Some of the living things in Central Park are horses, geese, there's [crosstalk 00:00:53].
Speaker 2: Trees give oxygen.
Speaker 3: Geese eat bread.
Speaker 2: These non-living things by-
Sabrina V.P.: Eleven seconds to get this done.
Sabrina V.P.: Step a little bit further back, semi-circle. Raise your hands once you noticed some patterns of answers that you see that were similar or things that were interesting. Anya?
Anya: I noticed a lot of people who put like birds and squirrels live in trees and use trees as homes.
Sabrina V.P.: Very good, so it's like the habitat.
Sabrina V.P.: Has Central Park changed over time? Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 5: It's changed because we added parks and buildings.
Sabrina V.P.: Anything else Thomas?
Thomas: I'm adding on to [Saudia 00:01:41], because, so they added man made structures that sort of affected the environment for habitats for different living things.
Sabrina V.P.: Very good point. Great discussion. We're going to transition into our next part.

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