H.+FOUR+All+KeriQueries+Considered

**FOUR**

1. Why did you choose this lesson? Brief summary or original lesson plan design/goals of lesson. Each day, students are encouraged to begin learning without delay in my science classroom. Long ago I learned that doing any sort of housekeeping at the beginning of class unduly delayed the learning process, o I developed the do wrote now (double entendre purposefully included). I made it (almost) irresistible to get going right way by offering 16 points out of 20 and upward just for putting effort into demonstrating the questions right away--because it is the immediate attention in class that I so highly value and still do. Nonetheless, over time, students sometimes ask me if we have to do the "Do write Now as often as we do..." even though they seem to enjoy it and reap the rewards, as do I in terms of students involvement, formatively assessing student status re lessons and knowledge, and least possible waste of time. At any rate, because students do this every day, I like to change up formats-- but do not always get to do that/. In this case my "Marine Voki" has the potential to add humor and novelty into an everyday process. Please see the research link attached to the words [|novelty],plus that noted on the reflections/ introduction page.

2. Define new lesson plan design/goals of lesson, THE GOAL ARE AS NOTED, NO NEW OBJECTIVES, JUST A NEW APPROACH WAS SOUGHT.

3. Which tool or tools did you choose to incorporate into this lesson to potentially improve it? I CHOSE TO CREATE AN UNUSUAL BUT DISCIPLIINE- SPECIFIC VOKI __AND__ FOR THE REASONS ALREADY NOTED UNDER QUESTION 1 ON THIS PAGE

4. Why did you choose this tool(s)? I CHOSE IT FOR ITS POTENTIAL FOR HUMOR.

5. What standards were you using to guide your decision on this? NETS? NONE RE MASS STANDARDS, NETS- YES.

6. Do you feel this will improve your teaching? If so, why? YES. IT WILL ALLOW ME TO GET TO MAIN FOCUS OF MY LESSONS FASTER AND, I HOPE, MAKE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS- WHICH THESE 'DO WRITE NOWS' OFTEN ARE DESIGNED TO DO- MORE FULLY.

7. Do you feel this will help improve student learning? If so, how and why? YES IT WILL IF IT PROMPTS THE KIND OF QUICKER STUDENT RESPONSE EXPECTED.