I asked my first graders the same question. My first graders did far better than my fourth graders. They came up with all kinds of ideas and connections. My fourh graders were stumped. As a teacher, it has been hard at times for me to adhere to both a research and instructional agenda in the classroom.
Students are so diverse, and they are all in different learning modes.
I often find myself drawing on all kinds of ways to do a lesson so that it reaches a variety of students. At times during this project, I found it difficult not to jump over to another way of doing a lesson when kids were having a tough time. Another way may have clouded up the research, but it also may have helped my students understand. Next time, we'll need to think about how to design the research so we can get our results and collect data while maintaining a lot of instructional flexibility. Old Rochester Regional School Department.