Great Job Lynn! I think the Lynn feels that writing is very important. He uses it in a way that incorporates very important scientific concepts into writing in a subject area that normally one would not think of incorporating writing.
I think that the group comparisons were helpful and I think that students would like those as well. It allowed the students to work alone, but also allowed them to have some sort of check and balance to their work by seeing what their neighbors had written. I think that the hands-on activity that then lead into the writing activity made the writing seem more real life and the students would see it as a more worthwhile activity.
I think that this hands-on activity leading into a writing activity could be adapted for any type of subject area. I really liked this a lot. Lynn did a very good job, and I think that most any teacher could use this for any subject. I can think of many ways that I could have used this in my business classes and it would have been useful because of the immediacy of the writing response after the activity.
The group work was definitely cool. It allowed for people to catch up and bounce ideas off one another if they didn't get the science terminology right off the bat. Good accountability too, with the group work. Liked it!
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