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 * Reflection and Evaluation:** This lesson is aimed at bringing the entire unit together for students and the teacher to evaluate how they performed and what they learnt. This can be done in group discussions as it gives students time to reflect on their own learning as well as that of the other students in their group. This can give students insight/ knowledge for next time.

1. Does the project communicate imformation clearly? 2. Is the project problem defined? 3. Does the project show evidence of; ? (a) data collection? (b) organisation of information? (c) evaluation of information?
 * Criteria for assessing inquiry projects:**

1. What things did I do well in this project? 2. What things will I do better next time? 3. What parts of the project/ unit/ excursion did I find interesting? 4. What was the most difficult thing about the project? why? 5. If I was starting over what things would I do differently?
 * Self Assessment Questions students could ask themselves:**


 * Learning Focus:** For students to show in small groups and to the rest of the class what they have learnt from this unit on recycling and how they can implement recycling into their own lives both at hame, school and in the community.


 * Lesson Objectives:**
 * To work in small group reflecting on what they have learnt throughout the recycling unit.
 * To write up a mini-report based on the excursion to the local recycling plant.
 * Self evaluate themselves on how they went throguhout the unit and with the assignment.
 * Teacher will evaluate students on how they went with their project and their mini-report.


 * Introduction:** Teacher explains to students what they will be doing throughout the lesson. In this lesson students will be required to have a discussion on what they have learnt from the unit. After the discussions stdudents will be requred to write up a mini-report on the excursion and finally they will they completed on recycling.


 * Body:**
 * As a class the teacher leads in a discussion into what students have learnt from the recycling unit, and each student will get the opportunity to contribute to the discussion. This activity is designed to give the class the opportunity to see what everyone has learnt to improve their knowledge on the topic of recycling.


 * In the next activity students will be required to write a mini-report as an evaluation from the excursion to the recycling plant in the previous lesson. This activity will give the students the opportunity to reflect on the excursion and show what they have learnt from the tour. In this task students will have to produce some factual information, to show what they have learnt. The teacher will expalin that this task is an assessment piece.


 * Conclusion:** Once students have completed their mini-report, they will be required to complete a self evaluation of the units work. this assessment will give both the teacher and the students a further insight into their learning, and for the teacher where they may need to improve with their teaching and for the students how well they have done throughout the unit and what they have learnt as a result of this.

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