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1. Why is it important for students to come up with their own conclusions?
2. Are students still learning if they come up with the wrong answer?
3. What are some problems that can occur with using Discovery Approach method?
3) While the students are working on their sentences they will be prompted by the teacher to ask themselves these questions: Why is that the correct location? The incorrect location? What word does it describe? Why or why not?
4) Then the students will write down the sentences they make in a journal. Then they can have a large or small group discussion and talk about what they found, and if there sentence works or doesn’t work. Why?
1) The teacher writes a simple sentence on the board for the students to copy onto index cards. Then the students write down up to four adjectives on index cards. The teacher will show a couple of examples to the students
2) Now the students try to place the adjectives in the correct spot in the sentence. After the students place the adjective they say the sentence with the word to see if it sounds correct. Then the students keep trying until they get it right.
What is Discovery Learning? (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2014.
Bruner. (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2014
1. "Understanding fundamentals makes a subject more comprehensible" (p. 23)
2. "Unless detail is placed into a structured pattern, it is rapidly forgotten" (p. 24)
3. "An understanding of fundamental principles and ideas appears to be the main road to adequate 'transfer of training'" (p. 25)
4. "By constantly examining reexamining material taught in elementary school and secondary schools for its fundamental character, one is able to narrow the gap between 'advanced' knowledge and 'elementary' knowledge" (p. 26)
Discovery Learning (Jerome Bruner – 1961). (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2014.
Jawaharlal, D. (2011, May 6). Teaching Is not Learning -- The Guided Discovery Approach for Learning. Retrieved September 16, 2014.