This week we were metacognitive about our schema! Schema are all of the things we know. All of our experiences help define what we know and how we feel. We looked at how our brain works like a file cabinet; housed with many individual file folders full of information. (You'll see a orange file in one of the pictures - that housed all of our Schema about spiders.) I wanted them to see how their schema helps them in many ways . One of our next steps was to use what they know about spiders (their spider schema) and predict the vocabulary that would be in the text. They came up with words like: venom, fangs, brown recleuse, black widow, poisonous, jump, bite, insect, etc. The next step in the lesson was for me to show them what happens to our schema while we read/learn. I showed how sometimes our schema is wrong and other times it just needs to be updated/changed. I told them we had to not only take stuff out of the files, but we had to be prepared to add stuff to the files. So, while we read, we were sure to stop and record new schema about spiders. At the end we went through our first round of Spider Schema (that was in the Orange File) and sorted through it. We needed to see what could stay in the file and what needed to be shredded (those things are our misconceptions). The misconceptions were put in the spider web - hopefully being trapped there forever. Some of the misconceptions were: spiders are insects (new schema:they are arachnids), spiders are black (new schema:some spiders are black - we have to be very specific), and spiders are poisonous (new schema:many spiders are poisonous and few are dangerous to humans).
Finally, we wanted to fill our web of understanding. I wanted the children to understand that we now all have new schema (and some of our old schema) but we all walked away from the text with different thoughts. We all had to share something new we learned from reading and with each new fact, the yarn was handed to the next person to form our Web of Understanding!
Observing Rocks. We used our Inquiry Skills to Observe Properties of Rocks and recorded them in our Science Journals.
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