Level Of Inquiry Plan

For my science lesson, I taught heat energy. During this lesson, students had to investigate what objects were going to melt when placed under the sun and why certain objects did not melt when we placed them outside. For this lesson, the level of inquiry that was implemented was level two because I told students what they were going to investigate and explore during the experiment, but students had to make their own conclusions based on what they observe.
For this lesson, I planned to have students conclude their own conclusion based on what they observe in their experiment. Before taking the student outside, I told them what they had to investigate in their experiment and each group receive the same objects in a plate. Then, when students were outside they were able to write down their predictions and then observe their plate to see what happened to their objects. Instead of me telling my students my conclusion I told them to talk to their team members and discuss what they observe and why they thought some of the objects did not melt. The level of inquiry plan was to have students create their own conclusion based on the question and methods given to them.
The planned level of inquiry did match the actual practice because students were asked to formulate their own conclusion based on the experiment that they did. In my first …show more content…
The aspects of nature of science were explicitly implemented in my lesson because students learn what heat energy is. Students were able to learn about heat energy by doing a hands-on activity and exploring what heat energy is. In my lesson, I had my students exploring heat energy and letting them conclude their conclusions before telling them what heat energy