Constructing a lesson including Natural Disasters can be a useful tool in captivating the interests of our learners at the primary, intermediate, and high school levels. It seems crucial to the future of our next scientists, as children lose interest when not being truly challenged in thinking and exploring. Therefore, as facilitators we must expand our resources to construct a lesson that involves each learner to adequately discuss the topic of Natural Disasters, but also complete the necessary research using 21st Century Thinking as the foundation.
As the topic is presented, learners will be given the opportunity to choose a group of 3-4 students to brainstorm a Natural Disaster of choice. The information or questions presented contains different sources of knowlegde through multi-media; then students are asked to brainstorm ideas of how and why a Natural Disaster takes place. Eventually, the groups will be responsible for covering each disaster will throughout the week; however, the learning process is initiated as information is being presented from internet sources, websites, daily news updates and history. The final objective is based upon presenting new and innovative ways of increasing knowledge of Natural Disaster.
For my blog I was more concerned on describing the type of inquiry lesson that would be presented to the class. I felt the objecive for this week was based upon explaining the format for the lesson as oppose to describing step by step the process. The different components of research including multi-media, internet research, and book resources provide foundation in the direction to building foundation for the future.
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