Friday, September 16, 2016

Science Class

Today in class we learned about how to do our unit plan correctly. There are different elements that are required in order to make a proper unit plan. A unit plan consists of five lesson plans.A teacher's job is to teach the facts and concepts. The goal of teaching these are for your students to make generalizations. We also learned it is important to have our students use educational language such as "I inferred..". This increases student vocabulary.
It is also very important to do hands on activities and not just boring textbook lessons. Unit plans have different sections.  The sections required throughout the unit plan are the overview and rationale, standards, central focus, objectives, subject matter outline, lesson plans, assessment methods, resources and reflections.

Science Class September 15, 2016

Today in class we learned about how to do our unit plan correctly. There are different elements that are required in order to make a proper unit plan. A unit plan consists of five lesson plans.A teacher's job is to teach the facts and concepts. The goal of teaching these are for your students to make generalizations. We also learned it is important to have our students use educational language such as "I inferred..". This increases student vocabulary.
It is also very important to do hands on activities and not just boring textbook lessons. Unit plans have different sections.  The sections required throughout the unit plan are the overview and rationale, standards, central focus, objectives, subject matter outline, lesson plans, assessment methods, resources and reflections.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

First Day Personal Scientist Drawing

   On the first day of class we were asked to draw a scientist. This was our only instruction. This activity was to show the stereotypes of scientists. The majority of the class drew a male with crazy hair. This activity also allowed the class to be creative. This was a great ice breaker.
   After we finished our pictures we took pictures from our cellphones and put them on our class powerpoint. I have never done anything like this before. I never had a class powerpoint. This was very interesting to me because each student has their own slide. On my slide I added a bunch of science pictures. I also added the hyperlink to my blog and Digital Me project. This is a fun way to get to know each other and see my classmate's drawings. This also gives me an easy access to my class mates' blogs. I loved this activity and definitely would use this activity in my future classroom!