All I have to say is thank goodness this is my 'practice' action research. I loved my backwards design unit with the human body, so it is hard to follow it up with my unit that I'm trying to compare to the body. The question I am asking is: How will choice in assessment change first graders' motivation and understanding of science concepts? The data collection is the most challenging part for me. The idea that I can keep track on how many times I need to redirect a student or when they have questions, is asinine. When I look into data collection for my actual action research, I need to be more specific with what I want to see in my outcomes. To be honest, I don't think I really knew what I wanted to see.
Like I said at the beginning, it was a hard follow-up to my body unit since the kids were so engaged. I feel like my action research should have been comparing two units, one where the students taught the lessons, and the other when I just taught the lesson. This would be much more useful to me and looking into generativity.
I am so happy that we did a PRACTICE run!
