Corners

Corners by Sarah Carver

** Corners ** - Cooperative activity used to introduce a topic. The teacher poses a question or topic along with four choices. On a 3x5 card students write their choice and the reasons for it. Students go to the corner of the room representing their choice. In their corner, students pair up and share their reasons for selecting that corner. The topic is discussed. For example, the corners could be labeled cone, cube, pyramid, and sphere with information about each figure provided. Students go to the corner, learn about the figure, and return to teach other team members. ** Interactive activity that demonstrates the strategy **  A third grade teacher is Conducting a lesson plan on the processes of experiments. After giving a brief description of each of the following terms the teacher lists 4 on the white board. Along with the question “what step do you believe come first?”. You can Place any of the steps on the board as long as the correct answer is in front of the students. Ask a Question Do Background Research Construct a Hypothesis Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion Communicate Your Results This is when the corners Strategy comes into play. The students each have their own plain white flash card in front of them. The students will each write there answer to the question and there explanation for why they think that. When the students are finished they will go to the corner of the room that is labeled with the step they have chosen. When the students are in there corners they will divide into groups and discuss there reasoning. After ten minutes or so of discussion each group will take a few minutes and present there case to the class and there reasons. At the end the class will take a vote as to what step truly does come first.
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Topic Choice: Ask A Question Reason: I think the “Ask a question” come first in the aspect of the scientific Method because you need to have a question before you can answer anything or debate anything!

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 * This is an example of the Index card **