Team+18

=**Team 18**= Member Names: Jie Zhao Jing Bian

Wednesday
Design Studio: Reflect on your content and pedagogy With your Partner reflect on the following questions: What content areas do you teach? Physics What content strengths do you have? Mechanics and Electromagnetism What content do you find difficult to teach? Quantum Physics What do you consider your role to be as a teacher? Not only have we to teach physics but also to teach students the methods of problem solving. What instructional methods do you use as a teacher? Using multimedia to assist the teaching activities. What are some of the persistent problems you encounter in your instruction? Short of teaching resources. With your partner, identify possible areas of overlap.


 * 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? What quantities effect the period of single pendulum? Does mass or length of the chord (or both) effect the period of the single pendulum? II. How are new literacies featured in your compelling question? Students are given an opportunity to discover the law of Physics by designing an experiement themselves. III. How will you organize or group your students for the PBI? Students are grouped in 4 people. Students can decide their roles in the group. They can put forward their own experimental procedure, and equipments they needed in the experiment.. IV. What prior knowledge do your students need to have to complete this PBI lesson? What lesson(s) would come before the PBI? Students should have the prior knowlege of simple harmonic motion (SHM). V. How will you scaffold and support your students' gathering and analyzing of information? How will you monitor this process? Teacher will provide any propriate equipments for the students. Also teacher will monitor students' process by walking around and guiding students through the project. VI. How will you scaffold and support your students' creative synthesis of information in their PBI product? How will you monitor this process? Teacher should support any synthesis created by students, and encourage them to be more creative about designing their experiments. VII. What intellectual elements in students' PBI product will be evaluated. What forms of assessments will you use (e.g. rubrics, checklist, etc). The abilities of analying and solving problems will be evaluated in this project. VIII. What technology tools will students use in creation and sharing of their PBI product? Students can use multimedia (such as Powerpoint or Poster ...ets) to present their own presentation of their projects. They can also tape their work as part of their evaluation of their projects too.


 * Reflection Notes:**

Content:
Students are given an opportunity to discover the law of single pendulum by designing an experiement themselve. Students are grouped in 4 people. They can decide their roles of doing the experiment in the group. Students should have the prior knowlege of simple harmonic motion (SHM) and basic lab skills. Students are encouraged to arise questions and make hypothesis about single pendulum.

Students identify the independent and dependent variables.They can propose their own experimental method, equipments and procedure. Students work in group to collect data; analyze data and make conclusion. Students are required to complete the experimental report individually.

Teacher will provide any propriate equipments for the students. Also teacher will monitor students' process by walking around and guiding students through the project. Teacher should support any synthesis created by students, and encourage them to be more creative about designing their experiments

Learning Outcomes for this PBI:
Students are encouraged to arise good questions and make hypothesis. Students will enhance their knowledge of SHM through this experiment.. Students will improve their abilities of analying and solving problemsby means of this project. Students will improve their physical experiement skills.

Method:
Teacher demenstrate the motion of single pendulum and put forward some good questions to encourage students' thinking of single pendulum. Students are encourage to propose their own experimental method, equipments and procedure. Teacher will provides students with the Flip camera.so students can record their own working process for their reflection.

Students are required to complete the experimental report individually. In the group, students are encouraged to do self reflection, and share in the class.

Assessment:
Students' outcome will be assessed by rubric.


 * || ** Level 4 ** || ** Level 3 ** || ** Level 2 ** || ** Level 1 ** ||
 * ** Experimental Hypothesis ** || ** Relationship between the variables and the predicted results is clear and reasonable based on what has been studied. ** || ** Relationship between the variables and the predicted results is reasonable based on general knowledge and observations. ** || ** Relationship between the variables and the predicted results has been stated, but appears to be based on flawed logic. ** || ** No hypothesis has been stated. **  ||
 * ** Experimental Design ** || ** Experimental design is a well-constructed test of the stated hypothesis. ** || ** Experimental design is adequate to test the hypothesis, but leaves some unanswered questions. ** || ** Experimental design is relevant to the hypothesis, but is not a complete test. ** || ** Experimental design is not relevant to the hypothesis. ** ||
 * ** Analysis ** || ** The relationship between the variables is discussed and trends/patterns logically analyzed. Predictions are made about what might happen if part of the lab were changed or how the experimental design could be changed. ** || ** The relationship between the variables is discussed and trends/patterns logically analyzed. ** || ** The relationship between the variables is discussed but no patterns, trends or predictions are made based on the data. ** || ** The relationship between the variables is not discussed. ** ||
 * ** Conclusion ** || ** Conclusion includes whether the findings supported the hypothesis, possible sources of error, and what was learned from the experiment. ** || ** Conclusion includes whether the findings supported the hypothesis and what was learned from the experiment. ** || ** Conclusion includes what was learned from the experiment. ** || ** No conclusion was included in the report OR shows little effort and reflection. ** ||

Technology Tools Used:
Student can do online research. Students can use multimedia (such as Powerpoint or Poster ...ets) to present their own presentation of their projects. They can also tape their work as part of their evaluation of their projects too.