EnClass+ch4+reflection

Chapter 4 was about advanced organizers. I was a little confused most of the time. I never understood what they meant by the different types of organizers, and the examples they gave seemed either too vague to understand or too specific for me to extrapolate from. I even tried to look back in earlier parts of the book, but that didn't help either. I think they were just talking about using different activities in advance of the process. I think I've done at least one of these already. When I did the animal section, I used an exell spreadsheet to help them organize things. It had different groups of organisms down the side (from archea to mammals) and different characteristic across the top (# of cells, type of reproduction, internal transport, support, etc). They used those to organize the information then compare and contrast different classes of organisms. Some of the examples in the book seemed like entire lessons or projects in and of themselves, something that would consume an awful lot of time as an INTRODUCTORY activity. They also spent a fair amount of time talking about Inspiration, which is a program I have never seen or used (I've heard the name, that's it), which didn't help clarify things, either.
 * || Assignment || date || finished ||
 * Day one || Read Ch4 and comment in my wiki || 6/9/2008 || 6/10/2008 ||
 * Day two || Read Ch 7 and 10 || 6/10 || 6/10 ||
 * Day three ||  ||   ||   ||

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