scores was at a level 2. However for the post-assessment most students got a level 3 and four students achieved a level 5 score for the drawing for the post-assessment. The action research project not only taught me the steps to an action research project, but it also taught me that inquiry science and models based science teaching can be use for all classrooms. The process of the action research project also taught me a valuable way to both assess my students and my lessons. The project had my group and I first observe the students, create a form of assessment. We have the students the pre-assessment, used that lesson to create two lessons and then gave the students the same assessment after the lessons. This shows us how much the students have learned as well as how effective the lessons were in teaching particular content. I had my doubts as to whether teachers would have time to teach inquiry lessons to students that were already behind. I found that our lessons did help many students. As a future teacher I will try to incorporate as many inquiry lessons and models as I can while also being a reflective teacher and evaluating myself and my lessons. During our first observation of the seventh graders at the Detroit school, the students were talking about the water cycle and were starting a lesson on watersheds. The students were answering questions on the board related to the water cycle. The two questions and their responses caught my is all the water on the Earth and attention most. “Where located?” “How much of the water is located in the I found the first question to be odd and also Earth’s oceans?” misguiding. The students answered the first question by stating that all the water is in the oceans. The teacher said this answer was correct. Then they said that about 97% of the water is Earth’s located in the oceans. Right away I knew my group and I would encounter many misconceptions on the water cycle and that these students were not in the habit of questioning information they were taught. Either the ocean contains 100% of the water or only 97%. Both answers Earth’s
scores was at a level 2. However for the post-assessment most students got a level 3 and four students achieved a level 5 score for the drawing for the post-assessment. The action research project not only taught me the steps to an action research project, but it also taught me that inquiry science and models based science teaching can be use for all classrooms. The process of the action research project also taught me a valuable way to both assess my students and my lessons. The project had my group and I first observe the students, create a form of assessment. We have the students the pre-assessment, used that lesson to create two lessons and then gave the students the same assessment after the lessons. This shows us how much the students have learned as well as how effective the lessons were in teaching particular content. I had my doubts as to whether teachers would have time to teach inquiry lessons to students that were already behind. I found that our lessons did help many students. As a future teacher I will try to incorporate as many inquiry lessons and models as I can while also being a reflective teacher and evaluating myself and my lessons. During our first observation of the seventh graders at the Detroit school, the students were talking about the water cycle and were starting a lesson on watersheds. The students were answering questions on the board related to the water cycle. The two questions and their responses caught my attention most. “Where is all the water on the Earth located?” and “How much of the Earth’s water is located in the oceans?” I found the first question to be odd and also misguiding. The students answered the first question by stating that all the water is in the oceans. The teacher said this answer was correct. Then they said that about 97% of the Earth’s water is located in the oceans. Right away I knew my group and I would encounter many misconceptions on the water cycle and that these students were not in the habit of questioning information they were taught. Either the ocean contains 100% of the Earth’s water or only 97%. Both answers