Your Chemistry lessons in Year 10 are structured using a "flipped learning" method. This begins with you doing your homework BEFORE the lesson on any topic, and later the class work builds upon it. Every homework is the same.... "ESQ topic XXX - topic title".
What does "ESQ topic XXX - topic title" mean? It means you...
- ENGAGE with the blog post on the topic given - Go to www.year10chemistrychhs@blogspot.com and find the post on the topic given. Read the notes, try and make sense of pictures/diagrams, play with s simulations, watch the videos. Make notes in your class notebook of useful relevant information (use the learning objectives given to you to decide what is relevant)
- SUMMARISE the key learning points in your learning log and assessment book - short, bullet pointed, generalised points
- QUESTION the learning so far - write questions in your learning log and assessment book that we can address in class. This could be anything linked to the learning objectives given: something that you don't quite understand yet, how this topic links with another.....
So, you have completed the ESQ homework, what happens next?
In class you work individually, in pairs, in groups and as part of the whole class on set tasks. These tasks check, deepen and broaden your understanding of the topic. The class tasks include discussion, written work, practical work, presenting, peer teaching, creating ways to remember facts etc....
You should find completing class tasks answers some of the questions you wrote in the Q part of your HW. You also get individual time with me every lesson to discuss the Q part of the HW, to clarify any areas you are still unsure of.
Any written elements of class tasks are completed in your class notebook, and you decide what (and when) to add to the S and Q sections of your learning log and assessment book.
Summary work done by individuals and groups will be captured by photo or video and uploaded to www.year10chemistrychhs.wordpress.com. Videos will be password protected with a password shared by the two Year 10 Chemistry classes. This blog will then form part of your revision resources, along with your class notebook, learning log and assessment book, and revision guide/work book.
OK, so what happens then?
You (and I) need know what you heave really understood, retained and can explain in exam conditions for each topic. To do this there will be a lesson every two weeks that is a revision and assessment lesson. The pattern of these lessons is: a 25 minute pomodoro revision period, a 15 minute assessment (exam questions on the two topics covered in the fortnight, completed in your learning log and assessment book), and finally a 20 minute review of previous assessments using peers and me to clarify areas of misunderstanding. The assessment portion will be handed in and graded by me before the next lesson.
Right. What does this look like in practise?
Below are pictures of student work in their class notebook and their learning log and assessment book.
To summarise, a typical month will follow the following pattern...
- ESQ HW on C1a
- Two hours of class time completing tasks linked to C1a. Summaries uploaded to blog.
- ESQ HW on C1b
- Two hours of class time completing tasks linked to C1b. Summaries uploaded to blog.
- ESQ HW on C1c
- Revision and assessment lesson on C1a and C1b
- Learning log and assessment book handed in for marking
- Two hours of class time completing tasks linked to C1c. Summaries uploaded to blog.
- ESQ HW on C1d
- Two hours of class time completing tasks linked to C1d. Summaries uploaded to blog.
- ESQ HW on C1e
- Revision and assessment lesson on C1c and C1d
- Learning log and assessment book handed in for marking
- Two hours of class time completing tasks linked to C1e. Summaries uploaded to blog.
- Etc...
What if I have problems?
Talk to me! We can arrange ways for you to complete HW in school (still before the lesson), or organise one to one tutorials if you are getting stuck on an idea after the lesson time has passed for it. We will have longer revision sessions to cover whole units leading up to your exams to help too. There are also the CHHS moodle sites for core and additional science that have relevant help for you (obviously look at the Chemistry sections)
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