Inquiry & GLADD
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Goal: To empower Sanchez teachers to incorporate the Green Lab into their teaching by understanding how the system works, experiencing design and inquiry, and collaborating with curricular resources to engage students.
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I notice / I wonder Inquiry
- Green Lab Intro I notice/I wonder Inquiry: share what you notice about the Green Lab (What do you see?) and What you wonder (What questions do you have?)
Teacher Comments:
- I notice the water is a different color, and I wonder what causes that.
- I wonder what maintenance it takes to keep it running.
- How does this space compare to a horizontal garden?
- I wonder what it’s made of.
- Do the plants ever grow over each other?
- What are the roots like?
- [when they were shown the weather website] We might want to put up a sign so the neighbors can look up the weather.
GLAD Pictorial Input Chart
source http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Main_EL/pdf/Glad_Resource_Book.pdf
Goals
- Make vocabulary and concepts comprehensible
- Drawn in front of the students for brain imprinting
- Organizes information
- Becomes a resource for students
Procedure
Prep:
- Use a pictorial to illustrate unit vocabulary and concepts.
- Resources for pictorial images include: textbooks, expository children’s books (Eyewitness Explorers series) websites (www.enchantedlearning.com), teacher resource books, or photographs.
- Use an opaque, overhead, or document camera to enlarge the picture and trace on butcher paper in light pencil, include vocabulary words and short descriptions.
Activity:
- With students present, trace over the pictorial with markers, providing verbal input as you go. Group information in different colors.
- Revisit the pictorial to add word cards and review information.
- Creates LANGUAGE FUNCTIONAL ENVIRONMENT.
- Allow students to color pictorials.
- At the end of the unit, make a master to use next year, and then raffle the pictorials
Example
Green Lab Pictorial Chart outline including pencil drawing of components of Green Lab with label and short description. Components include:
- Wind Turbine: uses energy from the wind to power the pump
- Solar Panels: use energy from the sun to power the pump
- Weather Station: collects information on wind, rain, and temperature
- Battery: stores extra solar and wind energy
- Trough: collects the water from the garden
- Water Pump: pumps water from the trough to the top of the garden where it trickles down to the trough
- Grow Medium: holds the plants in place. Is made of a synthetic plastic material
- Vertical Garden: grows plants up and down on the fence in a grow medium
Resource
Comparative Input Chart with Green Lab and Garden
source http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Main_EL/pdf/Glad_Resource_Book.pdf
- A variation of the pictorial
- Compares and contrasts two objects, animals, or people
- A pictorial form of a Venn diagram
- Information can be comprehensibly presented with the comparative, taken to a Venn diagram, and finally to writing
Step-by-Step
- Follow the same procedure as the pictorial, but choose two objects, animals, or characters that lend themselves to compare/contrast.
- Revisit the comparative to add word cards and review information.
- Consider extending the comparative by recording the key points and vocabulary on a Venn diagram.
- Use the comparative and/or Venn diagram as the graphic organizer for a compare/contrast piece of writing.
