What Do You Think Might Cause The Moon To Change Its Pattern?

Questions are a valuable tool for teachers to motivate and encourage inquiry, discussion, and reflecting thinking. They use questions to focus on investigations, probe for prior knowledge, and provide for scaffolding. It is also important to increase open ended questions during the lesson, which encourages all students to make useful contributions to a discussion and build towards understanding (p. 186). With questions, teachers can shift student’s observations into explanation and lead their lesson through the 5E model. In our lesson plan our objectives focuses on the locations, movements, pattern, and shape of the moon. We will use questions to during each stage of our 5E model to
Engage: During the engage phase we would begin the lesson with a small group …show more content…
At night or can you see it during the day?
Does the moon always look the same? What observations have you made?
What do you think might cause the moon to change its pattern?
Explore: We we would begin our experiment during the explore phase. The students would record their observations and discuss amongst their small groups what they noticed or predict?
What objects were involved in the investigation? (p. 190)
What are some of the changes you noticed on the face of the moon?
What did you see that you thought was interesting?
Explain: The students would discuss what they observe and explain and define the phases of the moon and their position in the Earth’s orbit. We would walk through each phase along with a video and compare their results.
Why do you think the moon’s surface in completely dark during a new moon phase?
Can you explain why it might have happened? (p.193)
What are some of the differences and similarities between moon phases?
Elaborate: Now that we know the moon phases and what they are, we will build or transfer their understanding to a new situation.
How do you think the moon phases applies to time?
How can we use this principle to explain a lunar