Chapter nine covered the topic of meta cognition, study strategies, and thinking strategies all based on studying and learning. This was an interesting chapter to me because I find the idea of meta cognition absolutely interesting and a very fun topic to cover. The idea that we think about our thinking to find a better way to do things is an awesome idea and it takes a lot of self reflection and helps you understand how you work a little more. It's interesting thinking about how meta cognition can be a core concept in learning and I never thought of my teachers teaching it to me let alone me as a teacher teaching it to my students.
Create:
The Sodium Potassium Pump Project
This is a project that can be done in small groups aimed at high school students in which they design a diagram or physical representation of the sodium potassium pump. This lesson would include them researching both the actions and causes of the sodium potassium pump and make them replicate them in a project to the point of understanding the concept. This works as a transfer of knowledge because of the fact the students can work together and make a physical copy of a difficult concept and use each other's knowledge to come together and figure it out.
Evaluate:
I used www.google.com to search "high school science lesson plans" and clicked the first three options.
www.teach-nology.com/
https://sharemylesson.com
http://betterlesson.com/
What are the strengths of these websites? What are the weaknesses?
The strengths of these websites depends on which you're visiting. Some of them are moderated by the owners of the website who review and edit the lessons for inaccuracies while others are peer reviewed and give you an insight to how the lessons will work in your class. The weaknesses on the other hand are just the opposite. These lessons can be very class specific and might not be as effective in your class and it won't allow you to refresh your memory on certain topics before teaching in the class, making it harder to teach.
Who created these lesson plans? Is there any way to submit feedback to find out about the success of the lesson plans?
These lesson plans are all created by former or current teachers. There is a way to submit feedback on most of these sights but not all of them, meaning that you can't see how effective the lessons were.
Relate:
http://www2.uwstout.edu/content/lib/thesis/2011/2011hoveg.pdf
Developing Critical Thinking Skills in the High School English Classroom by Genal Hove
"Repeated student exposure to critical thinking practices will assist students in all academic disciplines, as well as translate to life beyond high school"
This sentence pretty much sums up the article and how this could be used in my future classrooms. The more a student uses critical thinking, the more comfortable they will be with it, and the more they will use it in their every day lives. This makes me want to make sure my students use critical thinking as much as possible in their every day lives.
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