Design properties
- Name
- Explaining a complex concept (water cycle)
- Topic
- The water cycle
- Learning time
- 3 hours and 10 minutes
- Designed time
- 3 hours and 10 minutes
- Size of class
- 30
- Description
- Students revise their understanding of the system or process; Prepare their own account of it; Collaborate to produce an agreed account; Present and discuss it in class; and Revise their account. Exported to Googledoc here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nMAqVvdi3VXFOjiTEZhWU6yosTBAZaJ5g18L6I1vON0/edit#heading=h.syt6u13t5qvg
- Mode of delivery
- Wholly online
- Aims
- Students able to give an account of the water cycle
- Outcomes
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- Explain To be able to explain the role of the critical factors in the system
- Editor
- Administrator
- Derived from
- Explaining a complex concept (water cycle) by diana
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Timeline
Revise your understanding of the system or the process
30 minutes)
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Read Watch Listen301Work through the 'water cycle' video to ensure you understand the role of the critical factors in the water cycle, and feel ready to explain it to others.
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Prepare your account of the system or the process
40 minutes)
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Practice201Prepare your own animation describing the water cycle, focusing in particular on what you feel are the critical factors, and the role they play. Explain just the basics, as if to someone who has no experience of the water cycle. Use your own ppt software for this exercise, and save it for sharing later.
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Investigate101Use the 'water cycle' video to check that you have done a good description that covers all the critical factors.
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Produce101Revise and improve your animation to make sure it is as clear as possible
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Collaborate to produce an agreed account
50 minutes)
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Collaborate203Share your animation with the other members of your group, and look through what they provide to you, noting any similarities and differences, preparing the questions you would ask of them, and the reasons why you have something different, if appropriate.
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Discuss203Vote on the quality of the other presentations and discuss in plenary the issues that have come up, noting how you might improve your group's animated powerpoint as a result.
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Produce103Produce a screencast to share your group's animated powerpoint for presentation to the class. Prepare any questions or comments you have for the teacher that have arisen as a result of your collaboration
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Present and discuss in class
50 minutes)
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Produce3030Present the screencast of your animation to share your group's animation with the other members of your class, and look critically at what they provide to you, noting any similarities and differences, preparing the questions you would ask of them, and the reasons why you have something different, if appropriate.
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Discuss2030Vote on the quality of the other presentations and discuss in plenary the issues that have come up, noting how you might improve your group's animation as a result.
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Revise your account
20 minutes)
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Produce201Revise your animated powerpoint in the light of the class discussion and the teacher's summary, and submit it to the teacher.
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