Reflection On The Concept Of Forces And Motion

I chose to develop a lesson on the topic of forces and motion. The intended rationale for this topic is to insure that students understand the force, motion and the relationship between them. I developed this lesson by making sure I followed the ISL philosophy that I personally believe in. Some of the main components I thought about were engagement, socializing, and active learning. All throughout this lesson activity, students would be actively engaged, moving around the classroom in groups discussing the activities that they would partake in. Students would also openly discuss their own personal thought process and experiment with the manipulatives that they would have in every station. In the beginning I made sure to have all of the manipulatives, …show more content…
Due to time constraints I was unable to do that. Initially the idea was to have students develop a cardboard poster presentation or PowerPoint and tell me everything they know about force and motion. Each group would then show their own unique example of force and motion and explain everything that went into this demonstration. Students would have the chance to explain the demonstration and how it connects to our daily lives and what we do in our world. Teaching the lesson I tried to cover more scenario and the basics of force and motion things they make need to take with them later on in school. I reduced the amount of questions in the summative assessment to seven questions, these questions measured their level of understanding and how well they think critically. The students that I took the assessment with did fairly well on the assessment. Some students had a difficult time explaining how they got to the correct answer and what made their answer right. I believe the main problem with developing the lessons was that students could not focus completely on the lesson when there was so much going on around them. The students were interested in the actual lesson activities (circuit activity), but I believe the students did not fully grasp the idea of force and motion and all the technical pieces that were involved in it. I was impressed with their ability to understand and hypothesize what would happen if they chose to do a certain thing over something else. The students were very intuitive about what it took to make sure their goal was reached. Some of the students even took it upon themselves to use materials in the classroom that I had not provided to see what would happen if they used other