Session 6: Teacher Task and Quiz

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Resource Development

If you show learners a picture of earth from space and ask them, what do they see, their responses will vary. Some key words to look for in their responses are: oceans, water, land, mountains, clouds, soil, rocks, plants, desert (and maybe rain, animals, people). When grouping the observed features, learners may come up with any combination of the following groups:

Air (atmosphere) including rain and clouds.
Water (hydrosphere) including oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.
Soil (pedosphere) or land.
Living things (biosphere) including plants, animals, people, etc.
Snow or ice (cryosphere).
Rocks (lithosphere); and
Sunlight for energy.

At this point the emphasis changes slightly to how these features make Earth habitable and able to sustain life. Reasons given may include that Earth has:

Water.
An atmosphere with oxygen.
Soil with nutrients.
Carbon.
Gravity.
Sun that helps plants make food that we can eat; and
Right temperature.

Natural Science: Evolving Planet - Teacher Task

Assessment Task

Question 1: As a teacher, (using the information above) develop a lesson plan outline with the following details. • What materials will be used and why. • What pedagogy to use? • How will you link this to ESD coverage? • How will you source equipment? (10 Marks)(Required)

Changing Cognitive levels

Question 2: The CAPS Natural Science Grade 7 Term 1 suggests as an activity: “Describing conditions that sustain life”. What cognitive level is this activity most likely to assess and why? (5 Marks)(Required)

Question 3: Find an existing activity on this topic in a textbook. Analyse the cognitive levels of the questions. Re-write the existing or create new questions so that you have at least one question at each cognitive level. The ‘useful verbs’ listed in Activity 4 should indeed prove useful. (5 marks)(Required)

Question 4: The CAPS Natural Science Grade 8 Term 4 suggests as an activity: “Writing about why the conditions on Earth are ideal for life”. What cognitive level is this activity most likely to address? (2 marks)(Required)

Question 5: Identifying process skills

The CAPS Natural Science Grade 8 Term 4 suggests as an activity: “Interpreting a table of facts about the Solar System” and “comparing and writing about the conditions on other planets in our Solar System including their special features”.

a) Create a worksheet with a memo/rubric that would incorporate these two activities and also include assessment of five of the process skills. b) List the process skills that you have incorporated into your worksheet justifying each skill by referring to the question number in the worksheet. (10 Marks).

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Complete the following task by answering all the questions in the spaces provided.

Resource Development

Natural Science: Evolving Planet - Teacher Task

Changing Cognitive levels

Question 5: Identifying process skills

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