SummaryThe teacher will create a flipped classroom lesson on the temperate zone for students to view at home. The video will consist of lecture on criteria regarding the temperate climate zone, as well as relevant video clips. Then, in class the following day, the teacher will visit the topics covered in the flipped classroom video by having a discussion on the information presented. After reviewing and exploring the temperate zone, the teacher will show the students steps on how to make a flipped classroom video. The teacher will scaffold, asking the students to predict the next step in processing the technology. Once the students are ready and seemingly comfortable with the technology, they will make a practice video that is approximately one minute long on something they learned about the temperate zone.
Learning Objectives 1. Students will summarize key information on temperate climate zone presented in the flipped video. 2. Students will design an abbreviated flipped classroom video modeled by teacher example. 3. Students will explain new information they learned in video form. Standards "Global climate is determined by energy transfer from the sun at and near the earth's surface. This energy transfer is influenced by dynamic processes such as cloud cover and the earth's rotation, and static conditions such as the position of mountain ranges and oceans."National Science Education Standards: Observe, Interact, Change, Learn. Washington, DC: National Academy, 1996. 189. Print