See / Visualize
Supporting younger children - Visualising without the need for drawing
Teachers find that some children will tend to spend time worrying about the quality of their drawings/diagrams rather than engaging in the 'See' process (visualization and applying vocabulary to form a scientific explanation). If this is the case, the children will need reassuring that the Thinking Frames Approach is not about judging the quality of drawing skills, it is a way of supporting them to come up with their own ideas and explanations. To avoid this issue, sometimes it may be appropriate to provide photocopies of a range of simple line diagrams and the children select the ones they wish to use. Alternatively use the digital camera to take snapshot photographs of key points within a lesson and to either print these out or display them on the interactive whiteboard. These examples show PowerPoint slides from work done by Pam Meek, Deputy Headteacher at Church Crookham Junior School in Hampshire.
Using the digital camera to help an individual child
Here Pam has taken digital photographs to encourage Daniel to reflect what happens when you place a sponge in water and why. By having the photographs of himself during the "See" stage he was much more confident to enter in to discussion about the science behind what he had done and to engage in writing his own explanation.
Working with the whole class
In this example digital photography has been used so that the pupils can recall a demonstration of evaporation and condensation that took place during an earlier lesson. During the second lesson the children then found it easier to recall subject specific vocabulary during their "Brainwaves" and to visualize the science behind the changes.
