Erin Garcia: Science Teacher
About Me
Classroom Climate
Curriculum
Instruction
Inquiry and PBL
Daily Instruction
Lessons follow a 5E format
Engage: "Hook" into the lesson, activate prior knowledge, raise questions for investigation
Explore: Experience with experiments and investigation into the content and concepts
Explain: Learn scientific explanations of concepts, connections between investigations and scientific theories
Elaborate: Use and apply concepts to new situations to gain a deeper understanding
Evaluate: Students show and reflection of understanding and learning
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Science Journals
Use of interactive Science journals to promote the ownership and transfer of knowledge along with reference skills.
Included within the Science journals:
Guided notes
Experiment notes and conclusions
Foldables
Student Reflections
Uses of SIOP strategies in each lesson to promote the needs of ELLs
Daily Content and Language Objective posted and reviewed
Unit Board for student reference of destination of unit
Leveled readings based on Lexile
Peer tutoring
Partner and group work
Chucked instruction with hands on activities to reinforce new vocabulary
Use of direct instruction for confusing grammar and new words
Ex: Deposit/deposition/depositing pronunciation
Ex: Weathering vs Weather
Written and verbal instructions
Open and closed questioning techniques
Guided notes and Foldable notes
Sentence stems
Visual Vocabulary
About Me
Classroom Climate
Curriculum
Instruction
Inquiry and PBL