Day+1-+plan


 * Lesson ****Plan – Day 1 Project plan **
 * **Preactivity ** ||  **Activity Rationale **  ||  **Duration **  ||
 * 1. Icebreaker : Invite students to do the activity, “What am I?”– see Annexe 1. Explain to the students that asking questions is an important skill in solving mysteries.

2. KWL (What I Know; What I Want to Know; What I learned) – Invite students to fill out the first two columns. Topic – Solving mysteries || - To determine students’ language level and ability to communicate in English. - To activate students ‘prior knowledge of solving mysteries. || 20-30 min. ||
 * **Activity ** ||  **Activity Rationale **  || ||
 * 3. What is a scientist? []

- Invite the students to draw what they think a scientist looks like. [|make your scientist.docx] Discuss the stereotype of a scientist: old, glasses, bald or wild hair, lab coat, test tube, etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Show the presentation PowerPoint

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[|Whatdoesascientistlooklike.ppt]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">-Discuss with students who are the people that do science and what do they look like?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Invite students to draw themselves as scientists <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[|I am a Scientist ISN .docx]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Invite students to do the puzzle: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 14.4pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">[|goodscientists puzzle.pdf]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">4. ** Great Mouse Detective part 1 ** [|**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6BXQQp-AJo**] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Watch the video. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Read the questions to be answered with the students. Put the students in partners of groups of 3 to answer as many questions as possible. Watch the video again. Have the students complete the questions. Correct the questions with the students.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Discuss with the students what will happen next.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">5. Case study example - The Case of the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Snack Shack - [] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Read the story, “Case of the Snack Shack” with the students. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Project the story onto a screen (so that students can read the story as well). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">-Invite the students to list the unfamiliar vocabulary and review the meaning of the words with the students. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Invite students to identify the facts from the case:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">The window for the back room in Harborville’s Beach Snack Shop was broken. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Mr. Levine had left the shop after he had completed the price change poster. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Nothing was stolen. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Prices were raised by 10% <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Nathan and Trevor had been fishing since dawn. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">Trevor knew that a dollar was not enough to buy a sandwich. One would need 10 more cents.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Ask the students, “How did Max solve the crime?” (He identified suspects and then questioned them) ; “What other types of clues could Max have used to solve the case? “ (Fingerprints, footprints) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- Invite students to draw a picture for the story. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To show students that science is not limited to scientists. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To expose students to possible careers in science. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To encourage students to think of themselves as scientists. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To prepare students for the discussion about the variety of forensic scientists.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To develop students’ observation and listening skills.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To develop student vocabulary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To assist students in distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To assist students in analyzing and interpreting information to make deductions

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">- To enhance student understanding of the story events. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">120 min.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">60 min.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">30 min. ||