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Both of these lessons are based on Callison's definition of metacognition from his book, The Blue Book. The teacher and librarian will both be guiding students through the following steps based on Callison's definition: baseline knowledge, talking about thinking, paired problem solving, keeping a thinking journal, planning and self-regulating, debriefing the thinking process, and self-evaluation.
 * EDUCATOR TEACHING MATERIALS: **

Teacher: Mrs. Bradford Librarian: Mrs. Taylor
 * 1st Grade: Introduction to the Moon **

Day 1:
 * Librarian will read students the book __Good Night Moon__ by Margaret Wise Brown focusing on making connections to the story.
 * A discussion of the story will follow discussing student connections and their thinking behind it.
 * Teacher will reread the story to students sharing their new focus of the moon.
 * Students will take a close look at how the moon changes during the reading. The teacher will have pictures of the book pages displayed in order to see the moon changing position in the background.
 * Students and teacher will then create a K-W-L chart based on what they Know about the moon, what they Want to know, and after the unit what they Learned. They will fill out the Know and Want to know sections of the chart.

Day 2:
 * Teacher, librarian, and students will review the questions that were posed during day 1 on the K-W-L chart and each partnership of students will pick the top 2 questions they wish to investigate. Teacher will guide students to make sure 1 additional question is on the movement of the moon in the sky at night.
 * Teacher and librarian will pull books to help students research these answers as well as direct students to use online encyclopedias to help inquire about their questions.

Day 3:
 * Research will continue with the teacher again modeling how to use books to investigate a subject while sharing her thinking. The librarian will provide assistance to students who need individual help.
 * Teacher will guide students to decide to track the moon to see if the moon really moves in the sky, or if it just happens in books.
 * For homework, students will have to track where the moon is in the sky a couple times before they go to bed and when they wake up in the morning.

Day 4:
 * Homework will be discussed to determine if our moon has movement during the night.
 * As students continue to find answers to the questions they posed, they will continue to add questions to our K-W-L chart. We know that one question and answer frequently provide additional questions and this is an important discovery for students.
 * Librarian will model how to create a 3 slide power point presentation. Students will be guided to share their questions about the moon, their inquiry process, and any possible answers they may have discovered.
 * Teacher and LIbrarian will move about to help students create these basic slides.

Day 5:
 * Students will finish power point presentations and share with the class their discoveries.
 * Students will fill out a self-assessment of their week.

Teacher: Mrs. Towle Librarian: Mrs. Taylor
 * 3rd Grade: Introduction to the Moon Phases **

Day 1: Day 2:
 * Teacher will open this unit by sharing the book __Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings__ by Douglas Florian.
 * Students will fill out individual K-W-L charts based on what they know about the moon. Hopefully, students will remember some of what they learned in first grade and be able to recall this information. These charts will be shared out to the class and a class chart will be created based on student knowledge.
 * Students will pick 5 questions that they wish to investigate about the moon. One question that each student will investigate is the change in the moons phases, the teacher will guide students to choose this question.
 * Students will be given a composition book to record their questions, thinking, investigations, and learning. This will be their thinking journal.
 * Librarian will review questions about which students are inquiring and model to students how to use reference materials such as encyclopedias, online sources, and non-fiction books on the subjects.
 * Students will be encouraged to use NASA's website to find information from astronauts.
 * Teacher and librarian will pull books to help students research these answers as well as direct students to use online encyclopedias to help inquire about their questions.
 * Teacher will give students a calendar to chart the phases of the moon for the next month. This will be reviewed daily and discussed to help the inquiry process.
 * More questions will continue to arise during our investigations, those questions will be added to our K-W-L chart.

Day 3:
 * Research will continue with the teacher again modeling how to use non-fiction books as well as the internet to investigate a subject while sharing her thinking. The librarian will provide assistance to students who need individual help.
 * Students will continue to chart the moon phases each night along with investigating answers to their posed questions.

A MONTH LATER:
 * During this month investigations have continued, moon chart has been filled out, and any experiments or observations that the students wished to conduct have taken place at school or home.

Day 4: Day 5-8:
 * Teacher will help final conclusions be made based on the investigation of moon phases chart. Students will discover that the moon changes each night and it takes about a month to get back to where they started observing.
 * Librarian will demonstrate the use of Prezi to students.
 * Students will be expected to share their questions, inquiry process findings using Prezi. They will start creating their presentations today.
 * Students continue working on Prezi presentation and be ready to share their discoveries with the class.

Day 9-10:
 * Student presentations. They must include their 5 questions, thinking behind them, inquiry process, and discoveries! The student will also be asked to turn in a self-evaluation form to share their final thoughts about the process with the teacher.