Deck 3: Planning Units and Lessons

Question 1

Which of the following is not included as one of the stages in the 5E learning cycle?

A) Exploration
B) Engagement
C) Enumeration
D) Explanation

Answer 1

Enumeration

Question 2

In which stage of the 5E learning cycle would a teacher most likely present the essential question?

A) Exploration
B) Engagement
C) Enumeration
D) Explanation

Answer 2

Engagement

Question 3

If your instructional techniques included teaching children to learn to confront the differences between what they believe and what they discover with their own senses so that their existing mental model must be modified, which of the following principles would be employed?

A) Naïve conceptions
B) Accommodation
C) Assimilation
D) Rebar

Answer 3

Assimilation

Question 4

Which of the following teaching principles is centered on the premise of providing learners with various ways of acquiring information and knowledge?

A) Multiple means of engagement
B) Multiple means of expression
C) Multiple means of representation
D) Multiple means of accommodation

Question 5

If you were planning a year's worth of science for children and debating whether to include the study of mammals, which of these terms would best summarize the curriculum issue with which you were dealing?

A) Scope
B) Sequence
C) Learning Cycle
D) Inquiry Process Skills

Question 6

A teacher decides that a unit on arachnids should follow a unit on insects. In previous years, arachnids were taught first. Which of the following best describes what the teacher has done?

A) Affected the scope of the curriculum units
B) Affected the sequence of the curriculum units
C) Affected the learning cycle in the curriculum units
D) Affected the inquiry process skills in the curriculum units

Question 7

To which of the following ideas is curriculum scope most related?

A) The range of resource materials available
B) The range of student abilities to be dealt with
C) The extent to which homework relates to class work
D) The integration of earth/space, life, and physical sciences

Question 8

Which of the following would most likely be considered a lesson topic?

A) Second Grade Science
B) Objects in the Sky
C) Weather
D) How the Human Lung Works

Question 9

Which of the following considerations of the place of science in the overall curriculum describes how learning is most optimized?

A) Making content relevant for the learners in the classroom
B) Organizing learning experiences from the learner outward
C) Providing a sequence of topics that is logically connected
D) Using the concrete approach first when teaching a new concept

Question 10

Which of the following is not a component of a performance objective?

A) A condition for learning
B) An measurable performance
C) Criteria to rate the level of performance
D) A statement of assumption about prior knowledge

Question 11

In two or more sentences, briefly define the term scope as it relates to elementary science curricula. Provide an example of how knowledge about the scope of the science curriculum will be important to you as a teacher.

Question 12

In two or more sentences, briefly define the term sequence as it relates to elementary science curricula. Provide an example of how knowledge about a logical sequence of the science curriculum will be important to you as a teacher.

Question 13

In two or more sentences, briefly define the term unit planning as it relates to elementary science curricula. Provide an example of how advanced knowledge about the components of a science unit will be important to you as a teacher.

Question 14

Write a lesson performance objective and a sketch of one daily lesson plan for the science unit topic "About Our Food".

Question 15

Write a sketch of one daily lesson plan and a list of unit assessment strategies for the science unit topic "About Food Webs".

Question 16

Imagine that you are teaching a group of elementary students the criteria for classifying certain plant life as fruits. In a paragraph, describe how, during your instruction, you would use the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) strategy of providing students with multiple means of representation.

Question 17

Continuing to think about the teaching scenario in question 6, describe in a paragraph how, during your instruction, you would use the UDL strategy of providing students with multiple means of expression.

Question 18

Continuing to think about the teaching scenario in question 6, describe in a paragraph how, during your instruction, you would use the UDL strategy of providing students with multiple means of engagement.

Question 19

The concept of using kits to teach science is presented in this chapter. Outline the considerations to which a teacher should attend when provided with a science kit to use in the classroom.

Question 20

In a paragraph, discuss the pros and cons of the use of textbooks in science unit planning. In your discussion, be sure to include information about what textbooks do and do not provide for teachers of science.