The discovery method enables and encourages students to find answers for themselves. a principal of Discovery learning as that students learn best by doing, rather than just by hearing and reading about the concept. With this method, Your Role is to arrange the learning environment so that Discovery can occur.
Implementing a discovery method places students in a situation where they can learn through personal experience. Such experiences generally require learners to develop and use observation and comparison skills. Moreover, like detectives, students must learn to follow leads and clues and record findings in order to explain what they experience.
Discovery uses an inductive, or inquiry, approach to learning; it presents problems students must solve through trial and error. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the content through active involvement with it. Ford Discovery learning in the physical sciences, students who might view a video in which the narrator States a set of relationships and then go to the lab to discover the principles that explain those relationships. For example, after hearing the narrator say, ”Air has wait,” the students May then experimental way of balloon before and after filling it with air, thus discovering that the statement is true.
Be prepared for all types of discoveries. Combining unique students with unique learning environments often leads to Unique results. Be prepared for all types of standard and not so standard findings when students are allowed to make their own observations and draw their own conclusions.
Bridge students to share their discoveries. Through the experience of discovery, students often gain both great insight into their subject and great enthusiasm for what they have learned. These important insights and feelings should be shared with other individuals.
Make sure students understand that ”one right answer” may not exist. they may need instruction and examples on how to observe, compare, and evaluate phenomena.
constantly encourage and reward students for being inquisitive, for asking questions, and for trying new approaches.
For each of the following instructional activities, review the questions and reflectively consider how the various activities and strategies can be incorporated within your instructional materials:
What strategies will you use to hold students’ attention throughout the lesson?
What strategies will you use to help students see the relevance of the information?
Will you use to increase students’ confidence in learning?
What strategies will you use to increase student satisfaction in learning?
Do to help students understand the objectives of the current lesson?
What will you do to link the lesson to previous lesson?
What will you do to form transitions?
What will you do to summarize the lesson and Link it to future lessons?
What major content ideas will you present? In what sequence? Using what examples?
What will you do to help students understand and remember those ideas?
What will you do to help students see the relationships among the ideas?
What will you do to help students understand when and why the ideas will be useful?
What will you do to give students an opportunity to apply their new knowledge or skill?
How much guidance will you provide in what form will that guidance take?
In what way will you give students feedback about their performance during practice?
What will you do to determine whether students have achieved the learning objectives?
how will you give students feedback about their performance during the evaluation?
Encourages higher - lower-level thinking; students are required to analyze and synthesize information rather than memorize a little level facts
Provides intrinsic motivation (we're merely practicing in the task itself is rewarding) to discover the ”answer”
Usually result in increased retention of knowledge; students have processed the information and not simply memorized it
Develop the skills and attitudes essential for self - directed learning
Can be time-consuming
The Knowledge Compass
The Knowledge Compass is a wonderful way to help students formulate questions and begin the research process. The website provides several different types of questions to help students ask the right questions to guide their research.
Virtual Field Trips
Discovery Education produces live and on-demand virtual field trip. Each field trip comes with a companion guide packed with standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities
GooseChase EDU
allows creative integration of digital scavenger hunts into curricula. In English class, students may try ‘vocabulary’ scavenger hunt. In Math class, students may hunt for geographic shapes or math solutions to move ahead in the game. In Science class, hunting for different elements in school or hunting for different kinds of vegetation and wildlife during fieldtrips is possible.
EduCurious
Educurious is a website with supplemental apps that aims to turn students into “developing experts” by connecting them with real-world mentors. The site includes Common Core aligned curriculum that works to include 21st century technology, problem based learning skills, and connections with experts.