Process Circus Rationale

Artifact: A Project Circus developed to use within my future classroom.

Grade Level:  3rd Grade

Context: This project was developed for my CI 4401 class under the advisement of my instructor Dr. Jeff Goodman. It was completed during my Block II semester of Elementary Education at Appalachian State University.

Impact: The Project Circus that I have created will be used within my future classroom. I will be able to set up the center and allow students freely to investigate the area of absorption. This project will allow students to better understand what absorption means.  Students can follow the directions easily, while other students are finishing up other work. I could also have the area set up, along with other projects, so that students may choose which one they would like to investigate.  This project can be easily adjusted to fit any grade level within grades K-6.

Alignment: This Project Circus assignment satisfies the requirements for the North Carolina Elementary School Teachers by the following:

Standard 10: Teachers provide active inquiry experiences in the teaching of science by using various questioning skills and developing science process skills (predicting, classifying, measuring, inferring, interpreting, analyzing, and synthesizing.

I met the above standard by providing a project circus center to help students learn how to predict, measure, and analyze the area of absorption. Students will have a hands-on experience in determining which object could absorb more liquid.