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 SMART
Leadership for Teachers - Page 2
Each lesson to be taught—sink or float, snails, magnetism,
electricity, water, and human reaction time—has a specific Inquiry
Science Kit to be provided to Portuguese classrooms. Here Dr.
Mechling attaches a list of contents.
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With the first several days' worth of Inquiry Science Kits packed and
stacked, the staff is ready to begin inquiry-based science teaching
in Portuguese schools.
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Prior to each school visit, Portuguese educational leaders meet with
the project staff to plan visit arrangements.
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Christina (R), who serves as CAISL contact person and translator for
the Linho school, meets with school leaders at the beginning of our
school visit.
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Dr. Harry introduces and Christina translates the beginning of a
first grade lesson on sink and float.
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Students use science process skills including predicting, observing,
classifying, and recording to investigate which fruits sink and
which float when placed in water.
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The fruit in question is a banana. Will it sink or float? Wondering
what will happen and finding out for themselves is at the heart of
inquiry.
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Children consider their predictions then hold up papers: FLUTUAR, if
they predict float, AFUNDAR, if they predict sink.
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After predicting, children investigate for themselves.
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Children are encouraged to predict and test objects they wonder
about.
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Here, they all get to "lift" a mystery melon before predicting and
testing.
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