Problem Based Model The two lessons provided follow the Problem Based Model.

The first lesson plan discusses a Science Lesson and the second lesson plan is for a math lesson. The first lesson plan discusses a science lesson on the role of a paleontologist. First the students are presented with the problem, What is a paleontologist? The students then watched a movie on what a paleontologist does and followed up with a class activity. The activity consisted of breaking the class up into groups and taking a chocolate chip cookie and picking out the chocolate chips with different tools. This activity serves as an example taking the fossils out of a rock with tools, just like what a paleontologist does for their job. This relates to the Problem Based Model because the students were presented with a problem, they used different information to create strategies to solve the problem, and figured out how paleontologists do their job. Prior knowledge was accessed before the lesson began. If I were to change something about this lesson, I would have the groups try to use other cookies to represent different rocks for fossils. The second lesson plan discusses a lesson on multiplication. The students are presented with different multiplication problems and are instructed to create a booklet to show the different ways to solve multiplication problems. After the students have created the booklets, they are given problems to solve using their booklets. This follows the model well. The students were presented with different problems at the beginning of the lesson. They had to figure out the warm up problems and figure out how to present the different ways to solve multiplication problems. After, they used the strategies they created to solve the problems they were given in the assessment period. I liked how the students were given problems at the end of the lesson so they could practice using their booklet and strategies they created.