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This lesson will explore the themes of molecule motion and surface tension. While these themes may seem very complicated, we will break down the topic so the class learns a basic overview. Our audience is guided towards a sixth grade class, therefore these are still lower level thinkers. We will start off our presentation with the creation of a KWL chart on the white board. The K sections, which stands for previous knowledge, will be filled out prior to the beginning of the Power Point. This will be done by asking the class what they already know about molecules in general. The next section of the KWL chat is the W, which stands for what they would like to know. Once again through a group discussion, to engage the entire class, we will write questions that through discovery learning we will find the answers to.
Our presentation will then kick into action with a Power Point presentation with the backgrounds about molecules. This will be in a basic lecture form, with both key points and visuals on the powerpoint. The Power Point is aimed to engaged auditory and visual learners as it is important for teaches to adapt their learning strategies to the students needs. Keywords and concepts will be introduced and explained to build upon the already determined prior knowledge. The students will all be given a hand out to fill out for the discovery learning section of our presentation. This will be done through an fun colorful experiment.
The work sheet is broken down into three sections, a hypothesis, an observation in both a sentence and a picture, and questions. The hypothesis and observations will be done in class by students, as well as the actual experiment. The questions will not be done but simply are an example how we would ...

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... help the lesson sink into the students memory even further, as well as show us, the evaluators, if they are understanding the concepts.
The experiment is know over and the class will use discussion as the final method of evaluations. Students may refer back to their worksheets to state what they saw. Going back to the KWL chart, the L section, standing for what the class has learned, will filled in through out this discussion. Visually the students are able to see what they have discovered by organizing their thinking. The hypothesis in the beginning of the experiment will be briefly touched upon again to compare and contrast how the results differed. Finally, the class as a whole will conclude how this applies to what we have learned in the Power Point and ultimately real life. Teachers will then collect the work sheets, and clear the materials off of the table.

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