TEACHER: —so because we didn’t have, uh, school last Tuesday, we needed to do the science activity. But this activity’s gonna be set up quite similar to what we did during week one, where we’re gonna be learning and reading about an investigation that a couple scientists did, and then answering a couple questions, um, about the actual experiment they did. Um, if you look at the pa— top of page number 26, you will see that the target words that we are going to be looking for are notion, whereas, and compatible. So Treasure...
STUDENT: Most people are— Wait. Yeah. Most people are of the notion that we can tell how dogs feel by watching how they act. For example, people usually think dogs are happy— dogs are happy when they are wagging their tails, whereas they’re— they’re— Wait. Yeah. They are scared or stressed when they…
TEACHER: Cower.
STUDENT: Cower or lower their bodies and look down. Professor Seemy noticed that his dogs wagged their tails whenever he took them for a walk down his busy street, whereas professor—
TEACHER: Let’s go back one moment. Whereas. Don’t worry.
STUDENT: Could someone else read?
TEACHER: Right there.
STUDENT: Whereas professor— What’s his name?
TEACHER: Kahn.
STUDENT: Kahn’s dogs always cowered in the city.
TEACHER: All right, let’s hold it right there, Treasure. Let’s take a look at some of our key words before we go much further.
- Teacher compares activity to a previous Word Generation science lesson.