Team+21

Team 21
Member Names: Yi Cheng Shengying Yang Yunkui Zhang

Wednesday
Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy With your Partner reflect on the following questions: What content areas do you teach? What content strengths do you have? What content do you find difficult to teach? What do you consider your role to be as a teacher? What instructional methods do you use as a teacher? What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction? With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap.
 * Physics, Mathematics, Economics, Accounting, & Chemistry **
 * Teaching Economics, Accounting, & Chemistry **
 * Preparation of Cash flow statement, Organic Chemistry **
 * Motivate the students to study hard, organize the teaching activities, and spread the knowledge **
 * Lecturing & ﻿presentation & group discussion **
 * Students' English is poor, their learning capacity is limited **
 * Teaching vision, Teaching Methods, Teaching Tools **


 * Reflection Notes:**

Thursday
Guiding Questions I. What is the compelling question you would like your students to answer? Do you have any sub-questions to engage students?
 * As a student in 21st Century, what's your mission? **
 * What objectives are you planing to achieve in next 5 years? **

II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question?
 * The Project-based learning make the students more creative to fullfill their mission. **

III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI?
 * Divide students into several groups, and assign a different case to each group to study. Finally, through brainstorming approach, let the students share their experiences to make a conclusion for each case. **

IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI?
 * Depends on the background of each case. Some cases may need economic, financial, accounting, pharmaceutical, historical etc knowledge respectively. **
 * Let the students learn the concepts and techniques of PBI inquirement. **

V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process?
 * Ask them to focus on the specific topics. We take step-by-step approach, by the end of each approach, we'll access their performance. **

VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process?
 * Give them rewards to every new idea. Record every new idea and give a review to them every time. **

VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc).
 * Checklist **

VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product?
 * Vedio, presentation slides, and etc. **


 * Reflection Notes:**

PBI Lesson Plan
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PBI Compelling Question:
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 * What's the best molecular geometric structure for CH4 (methane)? **

Content:

 * Before the PBI begins, the students need to know about the concepts of electron pairs, covalent bonds, centra atoms and the atoms around the centra atoms. Also, they should have a basic physical knowledge that electrons are negative charged and they repel each other. Based on these knowledge, they can understand the molecular geometric structure of CH4 is built because of the repulsion between the electron pairs. The PBI lesson will help their understanding on these subjects. **

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Learning Outcomes for this PBI:

 * The students can reach the aim to build the reasonable molecular geometric structure of CH4 and make acceptable explanation. **

Method:

 * The students will be divided into several groups, and each group will be given a set of hand-based Molecule Model and related Molecule Model software(Computer based), which will help them to image the structure. They may access the Wiki, google, or baidu website for searching resources to find a general idea. And also according to their understanding and group discussion, they need to use both the hand-based Molecule Model and the Software to conduct a molecular geometric structure of CH4. Later, we will compare all the Model Structures and ask each group to explain why they build it like that. **
 * PS: We may use Voki Website to do some work for us! [|www.voki.com] **

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Assessment:

 * Each group will receive an A, B, C,or D accordingly. And the group which give both the best structure and **** explanation can keep the hand-based Molecule Model as a reward. **


 * ** category ** || ** 4 ** || ** 3 ** || ** 2 ** || ** 1 ** ||
 * ** Scientific knowledge ** || ** Explanations by all group members indicate a clear and accurate understanding of scientific principles ** || ** Explanations by all group members indicate a relatively accurate understanding of scientific principles ** || ** Explanations by most group members indicate relatively accurate understanding of scientific principles ** || ** Explanations by several members of the group do not illustrate much understanding of scientific principles ** ||
 * ** Information gathering ** || ** Accurate information taken from several sources in a systematic manner ** || ** Accurate information taken from a couple of sources in a systematic manner. ** || ** Accurate information taken from a couple of sources but not systematically. ** || ** Information taken from only one source and/or information not accurate. ** ||
 * ** Appearance of the structure ** || ** Exactly Tetrahedra ** || ** Almost a Tetrahedra structure ** || ** Not a Tetrahedra structure ** || ** No structure at all ** ||
 * ** Total Score ** || ** A: Above 12 ** || ** B: 8-11 ** || ** C: 5-7 ** || ** D: 4 and below ** ||

Technology Tools Used:

 * Wiki Website, Google, Baidu, the Molecular Model Software, Rubistar Website, Voki.com **