Students work together in small groups, say 3-4, to sort the cards in a way that makes sense to them.The students are told that the fish in the pictures come from 10 different families of fish found in the Great Lakes.Students get a generic fish illustration and set of cards with pictures of fish from different species.This lesson on fish identification from UMich includes the following steps: Sounds nice, but… How About a Quick Example?

Well, a typical POGIL lesson, say in a science or math class, starts students off with a question to answer or a puzzle to study, and they get either a series of questions or a short activity that will help guide them toward discovering a key concept. And the L? We all know what lessons are, but in POGIL, the lessons are specially crafted to promote the P-O and G-I parts of the plan.It's the teacher's job to act as a facilitator and guide them along the way. The G and the I give us 'Guided Inquiry,' meaning that students are encouraged to investigate, ask questions, and seek answers (that's the inquiry part), but that they aren't left completely to their own devices.The P and the O are for 'Process Oriented.' As in focused more on the manner in which knowledge is acquired than on the content itself.But when you break down the acronym and focus on what it stands for, it's not such a bad name. POGIL sounds like a sad robot in a second-rate sci-fi flick…or maybe a fish you should throw back into the lake instead of frying it up for dinner.

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