Exploring Movie Companies

The learners did meet the objectives for this lesson, which included implementing the already known terms to the activity, answering the questions in the movie folder correctly, and follow the inquiry steps accordingly. The strengths that the students displayed were the ability to follow the inquiry process and peruse the information to find the correct answer to the questions. For instance, the students were able to form a question, create a hypothesis, gather data, as well as form a conclusion of whether or not the movie was a success. The challenge that occurred was the question “How much profit did the movie make?” because the answer was not readily available to them within the information. They had to find the amount of revenue the movie made and the expenses  it cost; then, they had to plug the numbers into the profit equation. The students were able to follow the steps of the inquiry process, contribute their ideas for the inquiry and movie folder questions, as well as find the correct answers within the movie folder independently. Dependently, the students were able to discover the steps of the inquiry process and answer the equation pertaining to how much profit the movie made. The challenge that occurred is that although each student was assigned a specific role, which included task manager, task reader, recorder, manager, time manager, ethics manager, and speaker, a few students were off task during this activity. The students believed since they were assigned a specific job that they did not have to help contribute to the activity by adding input for what the inquiry questions should be and what the correct answers for the movie questions were.