Week 2 January 25

My fifth grade science teacher bought suckers with insects inside them, and every day he would give away one sucker to the student who earned it for answering the question of the day. He set it up in which he would tell the class the question, then the students could raise their hand to try and get it right. The first student to answer correctly won the sucker. To avoid students from just guessing each student was only allowed one response per day. This activity reflects the behaviorist theory of learning because the students are rewarded for being able to correctly answer the question and thus are encouraged to engage in the problem solving. Limiting the number of responses to one forces the students to thoroughly work through the problem rather than taking a haphazard guess and being satisfied.