Group 1 Inquiry Lesson Plan

 Group 1's Lesson 2!

    What is a inquiry lesson? This is where students must analyze work in order to come to a conclusion for something.  This was the type of lesson plan that Jessica, Emmalyn, and Nayely did for their second lesson plan.  They started off by discussing what they learned in the previous lesson.  This is defiantly smart for the student teachers to do.  The students learn a lot in between each lesson, so it is very good that they review the last lesson because they might have forgotten stuff in between the week.  They had 5 questions to review with the class.  After that they go into the lesson, their assignment was to imagine that they are cartographers during the age of exploration. They had about 10-15 minutes to complete this assignment in groups. After that they went onto do another assignment, the students had to create a map of exploration routes taken by countries during the Age of Exploration. They had majority of the rest of the period to complete this assignment. One thing I think the group can improve on is making the students present their work. This gives them something to be excited about to ensure that they complete the assignment.


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