Guided Discovery

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Guided Discovery
Lesson and Discussion by Jaime
Christensen Lauren Hill Joy Kusler February 23,
2008
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Guided Discovery

• What is Guided Discovery?
• A modified Directly Taught strategy
• Presenting questions to students that make them
  THINK!

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Guided Discovery

• Providing information that encourages students to
  make observations, form hypotheses, and test
  solutions.

• Instead of giving answers or definitions
• have the students give it a try!

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Guided Discovery

• Close your eyes
• Think about the smell of french fries cooking
• Are your thoughts pleasant or negative?
• The taste of homemade fudge
• Are your thoughts pleasant or negative?

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Guided Discovery

• The sound of a dentists drill
• Are your thoughts pleasant or negative?
• A time you were really embarrassed in school
• Are your thoughts pleasant or negative?

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What does the blue-light special have in common
with slobbering dogs?
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Pavlovs Dogs

• How do dogs react to the smell or presence of
  food?

• This is an example of

• Conditioned response or

• Unconditioned response

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Blue-light Special

• What is the blue light?

• If you had never heard of the blue-light
  special would it mean anything to you?

• What behavior does it cause?

• Why?

• Is it effective?

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Pavlovs Blue Light

• What was Pavlovs Blue-Light?

• What did it cause?

• Can this technique be used in
• other situations?

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Examples

• Discuss with your partner some real-world
  examples

• What ideas did you come up with?

• You eat at a fast food restaurant and get food
  poisoning. The next time you see a sign for that
  restaurant, you feel nauseous.

• Does the smell of hotdogs remind you of baseball
  games? Does it bring back good memories?

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Classical Conditioning

• Unconditioned Stimulus Unconditioned
  Response
• Food Salivating
• Neutral Stimulus
• Bell Salivating
• - Unconditioned Stimulus
• Food
• Conditioned Stimulus Conditioned Response
• Bell Salivating

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Assessment of the People

• What are some things a teacher can do to guide
  students to answers?
• In guided discovery, the teacher provides
  __________ direction.
• A. No
• B. Some
• C. A ton of

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Assessment of the People

• Guided discovery encourages the development of
  thinking and reasoning.
• True or False?
• The concept of guided discovery assumes that
  students learn best by only accepting teacher
  explanations.
• True or False?