Post #7

Choose one of the following: Consider a lesson plan you might use. Which metacognitive skills/abilities are involved as students gain facility/knowledge in this domain? OR Think of an activity or lesson component that explicitly teaches one or more metacognitive and one or more problem solving skills.

 We used an activity for our teaching project last week that teaches metacognitive and problem solving skills.  It would have to be used with upper elementary because it involves division.  We had a recipe for peach cobbler that served 100 people; however, we were only going to serve 25 people.  We divided our classmates into groups and they had to figure out how much of each item we needed to serve just 25 people.  This was an example of transfer; they were using math and prior learning that helped in a new situation.  This also was great problem solving because they had to work through the problem and decide how much of each ingredient they need and the math helped them do that.  I think this is a great activity that could be used with upper elementary students who have just learned division.

I really like this video below.  It talks about teaching kids to think about their thinking with a simple example and explanation.