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

Context: I collaborated with Casey Thompson, a colleague in my GS 4401 class.  This class was taught by Ms. Bastarache during the Fall 2005 semester.  Casey and I relied on a pre-packaged science kit for the basics of our lesson, but many of the elements are original. 

Impact: As a teacher I will be expected to teach science, which can be an enjoyable experience for both student and teacher if taught by someone knowledgeable and familiar with the resources at her disposure.  Planning and teaching this lesson was helpful because it undoubtedly prepared me to do the same in my classroom.

Alignment: I have met the following NCDPI standards:

Standard 10 because throughout the lesson plan, the students are asked to engage in a variety of active inquiry experiences.  During the first activity, students predict what will happen.  Students are also asked to interpret the data they collect, analyze it for validity and reason, and synthesize their results into concrete ideas about electricity and the use of conductors and insulators.  Casey and I also included quality questions throughout the lesson that address many of Bloom's higher order thinking skill