After we finished our jigsaw assessment, the next concept up was to learn about the sun. In my state curriculum (GA) learning about the sun, it’s parts, and how it works is an extension. Personally, I think knowing about the sun is important. One of the lesson styles I had to use for my gifted… Continue reading The sun is like a factory: A new metaphorical lesson
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After the Jigsaw
I spent five days on my jigsaw lesson doing the following activities on each day: Explain concept and work in expert groups Work in expert groups Work in jigsaw groups Work in jigsaw groups and class discussion Assessment (test) In most of my classes, the expert groups and jigsaw groups worked well together. However, there… Continue reading After the Jigsaw
Reflections on my first New American Lecture lesson
As I think I’ve mentioned before, I am currently working on my gifted endorsement. I am also teaching three sixth grade gifted science classes this year. It is my first time teaching gifted science. As part of my endorsement class, we are writing a unit using several different lesson styles. The lessons are based around… Continue reading Reflections on my first New American Lecture lesson
Being Scientists
For the past two years, I have organized our school science. We organized our fair as an extracurricular club where interested students could participate. Previously, we only had a handful of projects each year. Some were great, and others were not as good. This year, I decided to make completing a science fair project a… Continue reading Being Scientists
Stretching Exercises
I am working on my gifted endorsement for my state teaching certificate right now. I am also teaching gifted classes for the first time this year. I love it so much, but I can definitely feel myself stretching. For instance, I just wrote a lesson plan for my class in the New American Lecture format.… Continue reading Stretching Exercises
Now for something completely different
Yesterday, I explained how I taught the water cycle to my traditional science class. Today, the water cycle was on the agenda from my gifted science class. From discussions last week with my gifted classes, I knew that these students have pretty extensive background knowledge of the water cycle. All I needed to do was… Continue reading Now for something completely different
What does this have to do with. . .
Every lesson that I teach revolves around an essential question. All teachers at my school do this, and students have become accustomed to having an essential question totalling relating to the day’s lesson. Today, my EQ was, “How does water move through the hydrologic cycle?” Last week, we discussed the global distribution of water. Today’s… Continue reading What does this have to do with. . .