Stage 1
The teacher will put up an image of an electric circuit and ask the following Key questions for discussion:
- What is electricity?
- Where does it come from?
- What is the importance of electricity in our life and how can we use it wisely?
The teacher will activate students’ prior knowledge by asking them to fill in the K (What I Know) column of KWL chart on a Google doc.
Self exploration without technical details:
Students will go online to watch YouTube videos and try to find answers to the key questions. After this step they will post their W (Want to know) column of KWL chart on the Google doc. Teachers can make web-quests for their students so that they can have a guided tour of the given topic. Depending on the students’ capability, the teacher can allow them to make a list of various web resources they visited which can be used as a web quest/bookmark during the unit. A few examples are provided in the Symbaloo web mix given below. This step is inspired by Alt school ideology.