Students will understand lecture material. Students learn to take meaningful notes or create documents that can communicate scientific information. Students ask questions during lecture either to clarify or to bring in new ideas. Students taking lecture notes. Students making scientific drawings.
Teacher asks course-related questions and also requires that students ask the teacher questions.
Students will be expected to describe, explain, and predict events. Students will participate in classroom discussions. Weekly use of both formal and informal cooperative groups. We use cooperative groups for completing several tasks including cooperative quizzes. Completing a cooperative quiz requires classroom discussion.