POE done digitally (that rhymes!!)
I have just tried one of the pre-made, online POE activity which I thought was brilliant! It was on the UTS Predict-Observe-Explain (POE) Science e Tasks website. It was so well structured, offering the students all the right prompts at all the right times, which is something it is hard to do as a teacher, because different groups of students will move at different paces. It is superior to an old fashioned paper worksheet with the same prompts because it has an element of suspense (students cannot look ahead), it is unmodifiable after you have made your prediction: you cannot go back and ‘retro fit’ it to the observation; it is colourful and digital and was imbedded with an actual video (from a moon expedition), which is more engaging for students in and of itself (to a degree).
November 6th, 2008 at 12:09 am
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