The Engage phase is all about capturing the interest of students.
Engage also:
- Introduces aspects of the scientific concepts under consideration
- Seeks to explore what the students already know about these concepts
- Seeks to establish links between past learning experiences
Engagement activities can be open ended and challenge pre-exisiting conceptualisation for example:
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- Take one of the matches and place it across the back of your middle finger and under the 1st and 3rd fingers at the joints nearest the fingertips
- Try to break the match by pressing up with the middle finger and down with the other two
- Try pressing down with the middle finger and up with the other two
- Try moving the match to the other side of the middle joints
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- Get a glass or plastic cup and a ping pong ball
- Put the ping pong ball into the cup
- Put your lips against the edge of the cup
- With a firm breath blow across the top of the glass
- What did you notice happen?
- Why do you think this happened?
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They can also probe the student's understandings for example:
