Instructional Design - Procedural Account
Procedural Account (PA) Writing is to give accurately an account of a scientific activity including its aim, steps, and results or conclusion in order of the significant events.
Teaching Plan
| Level |
Secondary 6 |
| Period |
80 min (excluding 10 min. for the pre-instructional task) |
| Topics |
Including various topics in a revision setting |
| Key points |
Teaching Activities |
Learning & Teaching Materials |
1. Assessing students' performance prior to instruction.
(10 min) |
- Pre instruction task: students write an answer to a question requiring PA writing
(This performance is to be compared with their post-instruction performance for assessing their learning.)
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- Worksheet: PA pre task
(A modified version of CE 2005 Physics Paper 1 Q.6) |
2. Introducing the genre PA
(20 min) |
- Task 1: (Group work) Students observe the teacher lighting up a Bunsen burner, then write a detailed account of the action.
- Introduce PA as a genre often found in CE and DSE papers.
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3. How to write a PA
(25 min) |
a) Structure of PA
- Examine the answers in Task 1 to preliminary identify the structure of a PA in students' own work
- Task 2: Re-arrange the shuffled sentences of a PA passage
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- Student writing in Task 1
- Worksheet : WS2
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b) Language feature
- Examine a number of CE questions and try to identify in the sample answers the language features described in the PA notes:
- Task 3 : Find one example from the sample answers for each language feature.
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- Worksheet : WS3_attachment
(CE 2006 Paper 1 Q.7; 2007 Paper 1 Q.8; 2010 Paper 1 Q.3)
- Worksheet : WS3
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4. Consolidating students' learning
(20 minutes) |
- Examine sample answers of candidates provided by HKEAA. Students will realize higher performing scripts do exhibit PA text structure and language features.
- Task 4 : Group work: Trail marking of the sample answers
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5. Further exercise
(15 min) |
- Assessing student learning by comparing with their pre-instructional performance
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- WS5
(2012 DSE PHY 1B Q.10) |
