Force and Motion

Now that we are all scientists, I figured it was time to put our knowledge to use.  I gathered all the children together and showed them two words:

Force and Motion

I didn't preface these words with anything and let them know I wanted their first thoughts.  What did the words mean?  Where have they heard them?  I took their ideas and wrote them on post-it notes.  Nothing was wrong or right. We would get to that later on.

After getting our ideas on paper, I let the children know the plans.  I was going to keep the papers saved on the board for a few weeks while we learned more about those two words.  We were going to discuss them, read about them, plan and experiment about them.  This is what scientists do to learn more about ideas.  

Throughout all of this when a new fact was discovered, we were going to write it down.  When we finished experimenting/reading/planning/discovering, we were going to reflect and look at out first ideas.  THEN we would see what was a misconception.  

This is how the children get a chance to reflect.  They can literally see their organized learning on the classroom wall.  We will refer back to it weekly and add/move around more post-it notes.  I will keep you updated with the new learning and how we figured it out!