Reflections

We close the class by sharing reflections:

Each student responds to:

What did you learn today about light and shadows?
What are you still wondering about light and shadows?

To demonstrate reflecting upon the SCIENCE explored, ask the peer instructors to model expressing something they learned and are wondering about light and shadows (rather than something they learned and are wondering about science learning and teaching, which is more likely to be their response without prior coaching.)

Student 1
Learned: That light is straight.
Wants to Know: Why some parts of shadows are darker than other parts.

Student 2
Learned: Light is straight, but travels everywhere.
Wants to Know: How this relates to the sun and the moon.

Student 3
Learned: Light travels in a straight line.
Wants to Know: More about the two different types of shadows.

Student 4
Learned: That when the lightbulb was lower, the shadow was bigger and vice versa.
Wants to Know: How this relates to sunrise/set.

Student 5
Learned: Light travels in all diff. directions.
Wants to Know: Curious about how dome affects light and shadow outcome.

Student 6
Learned: There's two different type of shadows.
Wants to Know: More about real-life examples of shadows.

Student 7
Learned: Two types of shadows
Wants to Know: The varying sharpness of the shadows.

Student 8
Learned: Two types shadows.
Wants to Know: Why shadows lighter in some spots.

Student 9
Learned: Two types of shadows.
Wants to Know: Why there was circle shadow in light demo..

Student 10
Learned: Two types of shadows.
Wants to Know: How this works with multiple light sources.

Student 11
Learned: How shadows are a lack of light (definition).
Wants to Know: How white light produces heat.

Student 12
Learned: 2 types shadows
Wants to Know: Curious about light and color.

Student 13
Learned: Two diff. shadows.
Wants to Know: What determines how dark the shadow is.

Student 14
Learned: Two types of shadows.
Wants to Know: How you can change colors with light sources.

Student 15
Learned: How light travels in straight lines.
Wants to Know: How shadows get lighter and darker, how screen affects it.

Student 16
Learned: 2 shadows
Wants to Know: Can there be more than 2.

Student 17
Learned:
Wants to Know:

Student 18
Learned:
Wants to Know:

Student 19
Learned: That light travels in a straight line.
Wants to Know: If light can be reflected to move in different ways.

Student 20
Learned:
Wants to Know: Are the insides of our bodies just shadows.

Peer Instructor
Learned: That shadows are the absence of light.
Wants to Know: Not sure.

Peer Instructor
Learned: We have a new classroom.
Wants to Know: Curious how windows will impact the class.

Peer Instructor
Learned: Interesting to see how working with different peer instructors will be.
Wants to Know:

Peer Instructor
Learned: That we have a large class.
Wants to Know: See if class size will affect class at all.

Instructor**
Learned: How shadows are within us, never though of that before.
Wants to Know: How will windows affect class.