The Teaching Experience

     For our fourth week in classes, Group 1 is ready to teach. Jill, Sean, Jade, and myself were preparing to teach the topic of The Solar System and Climate Change. When preparing for this process, I had have some experience to refer to from Social Studies methods. In terms of the rest of my group, they had no experience. We met up on Wednesdays for about three to four weeks and worked on our lesson. I felt in terms of our lesson that it was planned out; however, I think personally it was overwhelming that I had to depend on one group member so much. 

      When looking back to our direct lesson plan, we created a Prezi for the students to follow along with. The Prezi was focused more on visuals, rather than words. I felt that if there was too much to focus on the students wouldn't have been as successful. We started off by going over the solar system and giving the students an acronym to follow for the planets. The students seemed to like this the most because it was a resource they could go back to and use for future references. The only wish I have for the direct lesson plan was that we maybe utilized more of the technology that was provided. I also felt that the guided practices for the lesson weren't as engaging as I wish they could have been.

     On to the Inquiry lesson, I felt that this lesson was fun and maybe not as thought out as it should have been. The experiment itself seemed to get the students up and engaged in the lesson. Even though the lesson could have been more thought out, I feel like the students really enjoyed the activity. Trying to preserve ice was their activity and I personally felt it was impossible but the students accepted the challenge with a grain of salt and completed that activity in a timely fashion.

  

      Overall, the lessons together provided the students with Vidal knowledge that they are going to use when being taught for the rest of our fieldwork experience. The students learned about the solar system, the planets, and climate change. They also learned why it is important to try and preserve the Earth as a whole. These lessons were great at proving that everyday is Earth Day and the students can make a difference.