Unit 6: Inquiry Based Lessons

     This week has been quite interesting.  I have come to understand how to plan for and connect the 5E's while teaching inquiry based lessons.  The 5E flow chart is a lot different from anything I have used before for lesson planning and it takes some doing to get comfortable with the idea, however, I can see the benefit to planning this way.  This type of planning forces you to evaluate everything you do and connect it back to the overarching concept you want your students to master. 

   From my example above you can see how every part of the lesson is connected and justified to every other part of the lesson.  This takes more planning upfront but makes everything I do more thought out and meaningful to my students.   
 
   It was also good to look at the web 2.0 tools and see how they can be incorporated into this format of inquiry based lesson planning.  Everything is starting to come together this week from process skills to student inquiry to tools and lesson planning.  I think next week will be even more clear as we create the assessment piece and then a full unit plan that entails everything we have learned.