Today was a good day. First, the english teacher on my team told us that she is pregnant! We were all very excited and congratulated her. Also, Petrina came, and she gave me an excellent observation. She loved the lesson that I did. The only problem is that it wasn’t really my lesson. I did a good job with it, but Bella came up with the lesson should be. All I do is watch Bella teach the periods before I teach, then I do the same lesson that she did earlier (at least for now). I was happy to get the excellent observation, but I also feel guilty for taking it.
The lesson I did today was about electricity. As a side note, this is the only day we work on electricity. What we did for the lesson was have them do a couple of questions about circuits in the review book as a science starter (we had not talked about this yet, so this was a good introduction to the lesson). Then we went over that, and had them copy down seven definitions. We watched a short video clip, and while they were watching it they were supposed to write down the terms that corresponded with the definitions that they had previously copied down. We went over the definitions, and then we broke them up into groups of four and had them build circuits. Unfortunately, we did not actually have circuits for them to play with, but we did have a card game called AC/DC, which is a card game about building circuits. We did not have enough time to actually play the game, but a significant portion of the students enjoyed making the circuits with the cards anyway.
I liked this lesson because we touched on many of the different intelligences. The students weren’t doing the same type of activity for a long amount of time. And I really liked working with the card game. One surprising thing I found out about one of my students is that he does electronics for a hobby. He had brought in a book on electronics, which is funny because I do not think we told him that we were doing electricity today. So I told him that he could find a project in there to do during the last week and a half that I was there. I am getting more excited about that last week and a half as time goes on. I will ask them soon what their favorite part of this class is, and start coming up with projects for them. Yay for fun science and not test prep!
