beginning a chromatography

We began in the Science Center with

Dr. O’Connor

Team 3Tamara Miles, Documenter

With Sandra JacquesAnd Christina Wood

We then moved to the “Authentic” building in the South West corner

Where Tamara (the documenter) and Sandra

and Christina (participants) met and

discussed…

… “Beginning a chromatography study”

Tamara and Sandra were not able to view the movie, but

Christina, who had voice issues in the beginning, could

play it on her end.

How do we fix it? We have no idea…

First: He Identified the concepts, activating the student’s prior knowledge

Then he arranged the information so patterns could be found while he explained the components of the experiment

Last, he guided the students to the objectives, promoting social interactions and allowing them to advance schema construction

What scaffolding does the teacher do to present the chromatography?

We began with question number

one:

“These are the suspects, let’s start with the

crime scene…”

“These are actual chromatography

papers”

“Why don’t we

all do it at once…”

Hold on! Wouldn’t some examples be

helpful here?

How about a lap top with some real-world

Chromatography playing on YouTube?

Or even a handout with some

explanations.

What other questions might you ask to ensure that students are

understanding the process?

On to Question number two:

What do these colors we see

actually represent? Why is it

important that the paper not touch the sides of the

beaker?

Every student benefits from identifying the objective

Closure completes the process of schema production

Finally we discussed question number three:

What suggestions might you make to the teacher to get more participation

from the students?

“Which one do you want

to talk about?”

There was a lot of excitement!

“High five!”

The objectives were clear and

they produced an outcome.

The approach was very good!

Presenting to the judges was a great way to show cooperation and understanding!

But wait a minute, couldn’t the teacher have asked more questions to get everyone involved?

Maybe if they had a list to follow it would have

been easier for everyone to participate?

At the end of the day we all agreed that this was a

fantastic, well thought out activity that engaged the

students and created healthy interactions

between them!

Case Closed!