Week three

I can't believe the three weeks are already over, it makes me so sad! our class was so well behaved and so much fun! this week was fun, we got to actually teach social studies for the teacher that does the social studies in the rotations, it was fun. we did the civil war. we really only had two lessons to cover it in, the third one was an extra for just our class and not the whole rotation. it was neat, because I felt like the kids were really taking in what we were teaching them, it made me really excited to be a teacher. Our technology lesson was supposed to be a web quest but when the kids downloaded it from our uen page, the Provo School District took the hyperlink off the the buttons, so it turned into a similar research project, looking at the tasks we gave them, and the sites we gave them, and any other they could find. It didn't go at all the way we had planned, but I think the students still got a lot out of it.

week 2

my second week in the field was neat as well, it feels like I know the students better, I know how the classroom works, and we have had another opportunity to teach. our second lesson was on mountain building and I felt that it went really well, that the students had a lot of fun, and that we were able to get across what we needed to. we taught about the three different ways mountains are formed, we showed an overheaed of the process of each, talked aobut how it worked, then gave them a physcial example. for folded mountains we showed them a paper with pressure on both sides representing the crust and plates pushing and showed how it would buckle, fold, and form mountain ranges. For Fault-block we used 2 boxes one with dirt in it to represent a fault and how a mountain would form when one side of the fault goes up and dirt falls. for volcanic mountains we showed them a picture of a volcano, and for a dome mountain we blew up a balloon to show how the magma would shape the crust, but not break through it. then we had the students write a short explanation for how each type of mountain formation worked. for the formal assessment, we had the students push the desks aside, and we did 2 movement activties for a folded and dome mountains, then split them into groups and had them show us a movement activity that represented either volcanic or fault-block, assigning one or the other to different groups. it was a fun lesson. The time is going by fast and I am loving it