This week I had to write a lesson plan for my science course.  It was a challenging task because I wanted to think of a good meaningful experiment to use in my lesson.  In fourth grade, they are tested in science and one of the big performance tasks involves conductors and insulators.  This is a meaningful concepts that explains their world and helps prepare them for the big assessment.  As I used the five E's strategy that our professor guided us toward, it made me think about what the student's experience was instead of my own, it made me start thinking about what their answers to my prompts would be and how that could be a way to drive the instruction.  I usually plan my lesson with an objective in mind and what I need to do to get there, but this made me think more about the student's experiences.  If I were to implement this lesson in my classroom, I would face language issues that may impede the understanding of what I want the kids to learn.  But using visual references hopefully this can be overcome.