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Final Project. iMET 9 280 Fundamentals of Online Pedagogy. Presented By Alex Pattillo Ceonita Wilson Wanda Hardy September 23, 2006. Concept Attainment Model. Concept Attainment Model.
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Final Project iMET 9 280 Fundamentals of Online Pedagogy Presented By Alex Pattillo Ceonita Wilson Wanda Hardy September 23, 2006
Concept Attainment Model “a teaching approach that helps students develop skills for inductive and deductive thinking while at the same time learning subject matter in any field, in a constructive and meaningful way.” (Pritchard, 1994)
Concept Attainment ModelPhases • Teacher presents data; students generate and test hypotheses. • Students confirm hypothesis and identify the • characteristics of the concept. • Test attainment of the concept. • Students reflect on the thinking patterns that were used to attain the concept (metacognition)
Dark Chocolate Sample 1 Sample 3 Sample 5 Non-Dark Chocolate Sample 4 Sample 6 Sample 2 Part A Yes or No
Task 2: additional data Label the blank columns on your data Sheet and fill in the data for each sample. • Column 5: % of cacao • Column 6: Ingredients are chocolate followed by sugar Complete your hypothesis
Dark Chocolate Sample 7 Sample 8 Sample 10 Sample 12 Non Dark Chocolate Sample 9 Sample 11 Part BYes or No
More Chocolate… yummy! • Don’t forget to think about your previous observation! • Did you update your original hypotheses?
Dark Chocolate is…. • FDA regulates that dark chocolate must contain a minimum of 35% chocolate liquor as the primary ingredient • Sugar must be the secondary ingredient
Conclusion CAM is useful for all ages to help learners construct abstract or concrete concepts. In this lesson, culinary students were able to deduce a definitive concept that will enable them to distinguish dark chocolate from other varieties of chocolate.
References • Concept Attainment • Chocolate • Other sample lessons
Thank You! Ceonita Alex Wanda