Class: 6 Extreme
Date: 8 May 2008
Day: Thursday
Time: 8.00 a.m. - 9.00 a.m. (1 hour)
Number of Students: 35 students
Prior Knowledge: Food that is not kept properly can get spoilt and become inedible.
No. 1 – encourager
No. 2 – recorder
No. 3 – reporter
No. 4 – checker and runner.
III. Restructuring Teacher sets up different stations Each group goes to each • Observing.
Ideas around the class. Each station has sets station and makes their • Define
(25 minutes) of the same kind of food (some fresh, observations and conclusions. operationally.
spoilt/rotting and dried). The students They cooperate in doing • Communicating
Spoilt food has one or go to each station in their cooperative different things like discussing, • Responsible for
more of the following groups and record which food is spoilt recording their observations safety
characteristics: and which is still good in the form of a and drawing their sketches. • Work
• An unpleasant table which they design themselves. cooperatively
smell They also need to record the reason Using the Team Stand-N-Share
• A changed colour they say so and where possible sketch method, students present their 5 Stations of food.
• A changed texture the good and bad food using colour findings while teacher facilitates
• Mouldy pencils. Teacher gives them a few their presentation and gives his Teacher provides
minutes to discuss and draw up their feedback when necessary.
Teacher’s Reflection:
I found that the various groups could carry out their observations but they had some trouble drawing their
sketches especially in getting the right colour as they had limited choices of colour in their pencil case. I
had to really keep an eye on them so that they do not taste any of the food. I had to keep reminding them
not to taste at all and was rather worried when I saw some students dipping their finger and touching
some of the spoilt food. That was difficult to control as children being children they were sorely tempted.
Apart from that, some groups took longer in certain stations with their work and thus could not complete
in time before the signal to change happened.
Nevertheless, I was happy that the students were able to design their own tables and make their
observations. I was pleasantly surprised at their creativity and resourcefulness. This gives me confidence
to allow them more autonomy and independence when they do the investigation for the next lesson.