Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Students create experimental designs.
Objective: To have the students and the teacher evaluate the lab activity for the criteria presented in the lecture.
Activity: In a whole-class format, the students analyze their lab activity for the steps in the scientific method. Their task is to identify how the scientific method format helps insure the validity and accuracy of their experiment.
