In science, we started our 5 Minute Review. Students take the first 5 minutes of class to jot down their thinking from the previous day's lesson. Their thinking can be in pictures or words. After they write on wipe off sheets, they walk around and silently read other's responses. After the 5 minutes is up, or everyone is in their seat, I ask the students to share what stood out as a WOW! The students told me they liked this activity because they were moving around, they saw their friend's thinking, and they were corrected if their thinking was a little off. For instance, today someone wrote "We did a sweet potato experiment" while another wrote "We studied about plants." This allowed me to see there were a few who understood and a few who didn't. We cleared up the objective of yesterday's lesson. It was to learn about simple experiments, where sweet potatoes were one of the controlled variables. Everyone responded with an "Ohhh, that's right." I can't wait to see tomorrow's responses, my guess is they will be great!
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