Teaching resources

Lesson Plan Title

The aim of this lesson is to :

 

National Curriculum AT / Level :

(Assumed) Previous Knowledge and Experience

 

 

Activities and Strategies/ content ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Outcomes : Students should be able to / know

 

 

Apparatus

Hazards/ safety (COSSH)

Differentiation/ Extension work :

 

 

Technological and Environmental Applications :

Equal Opportunities / Spiritual , Moral and Cultural Development :

Assessment : ( how and who )

Homework :

Review / Evaluation

 

 

 

Evaluating your work

Evaluation : looking over the work you have carried to see how worthwhile and valuable it has been and to see if there are better ways of doing the work. It also involves seeing whether there is further work to be done.

The skill of evaluating is extremely valuable to scientists . Many important discoveries have been made because a scientist looked carefully at the results of an experiment that seemed to go wrong but in fact had yielded something of great importance.

For your coursework you are expected to evaluated your investigations.

You are expected to :

  1. Consider whether your collected evidence is enough to make a firm conclusion ( so you avoid making hasty conclusions)
  2. Explain any anomalous results and if possible accept or reject them
  3. Consider how reliable your results are in relation to the methods used
  4. Suggest improvements to the methods used
  5. Propose further investigations to test the conclusions you got.

You can get up to 6 marks depending on how well you do the five things described in the above box.

Questions

  1. Write a sentence that summarizes the work you carried out

    2. ______________________________________________________________________________

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  2. What do you think of the method you used ?

    3. ______________________________________________________________________________

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  3. How would you get more reliable results ?

    4. ______________________________________________________________________________

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  4. If you repeated your measurements/observations did you notice anything which did not fit the usual pattern ? (what was it ?)

    5. ______________________________________________________________________________

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  5. Are you going to accept your results ? (explain )

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Evaluation Check list for pupils

For 2 Marks

__________________________________________________

Have you:

e.g. Your initial thoughts , the method , conclusion

______________________________________________________________________________

For 4 Marks

______________________________________________________________________________

 

Have you:

__________________________________________________

For 6 marks

___________________________________________________________________________

Have you:

Evaluation : Pupil friendly mark scheme

Marks

What you need to do to get the marks

2

E2a Write something relevant about the whole investigation e.g. Your initial (first) thoughts about the work

 

4

E.4a State (preferably in writing) how accurate or spot on your observations or measurements were ; point out any results that did not follow the usual or expected pattern

AND

E.4b Explain how suitable your method was and also explain what changes to your method will lead to more reliable results

6

E.6a Explain how reliable your evidence is . Give your best explanation of any results that are anomalous (do not follow the usual pattern) ; decide whether you will accept or reject these anomalous results. State whether your evidence is sufficient ( enough) to make a firm conclusion (opinion fully supported by evidence)

AND

E.6a Suggest and explain improvements that will provide extra evidence to support the conclusion you have already made. Carefully explain what extra work you could do to take the work further or extend it

Evaluation word dictionary

Relevant : Connected with what is being dealt with

Procedure : The orderly way of doing something

Evidence : Anything that gives reason for believing sth, that makes clear or proves sth.

Accuracy : Correct (exact)

Observation : Something that is seen and carefuly noted

Measurement : Finding the size of something by comparing it with a standard unit e.g. measuring length using a ruler

Anomalous : something that does not follow or fit the usual pattern or is unlike the normal kind

Result : the findings at the end of an investigation or experiment

Appropriate : Suitable

Reliable : Can be depended on (trust worthy)

Propose : Suggest a plan or idea

Improvement : To make something better

Conclusion : An opinion supported by sufficient ( enough) evidence

Extend : Make something become longer or larger

Enquiry : An investigation

Evaluation Word list

Relevant

Procedure

Evidence

Accuracy

Observation

Measurement

Anomalous

Result

Appropriate

Reliable

Propose

Improvement

Conclusion

Extend

Enquiry

 

Written by Lloyd Forster