My students are into the evolution unit. Last year I didn't teach evolution. I totally skipped it. I think it just didn't fit right into my year schedule. This year, however, the science department decided that Evolution was a concept that students needed to have, so teach it I am. They are getting it to a certain degree. They understand that at some point in the Earth's history, there were no people. That we, as a species, evolved from an already existing species. Except, they can't tell you that. They get the concept, they just can't figure out how to spit it back out in words that make more sense to them. So we are working on the skill of summarizing. Somewhere along the way, they never learned how to summarize the texts they read. They can summarize stories, no problem. However, when it comes to content area text, they have a lot of trouble. So that's what we have been focusing on.
posted by lobo5747 @ 5:39 AM
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