Week 6

This week was a slower week since we only had math and science on Thursday this week. This week in math included writing a learning segment with our groups which we will teach next Thursday! I'm with Lindsey and Grace and our learning segment is about how two digit numbers are made up of the tens place and the ones place. I'm excited about teaching because we have some great activities and worksheets for the students to become more acquainted with the tens and ones place. In science today, we were able to discover science writing heuristic on air resistance! We got to create parachutes out of tissue paper and paper clips and we dropped them off the porch and tested each parachute to see how long it took for it to hit the ground after releasing it. Each parachute was different than the others. We recorded the time it took to hit the ground for each one ten times and calculated the average amount of time it took. As a group, we must fill out the slide deck and answer questions about our experiment which takes us through the process of a science writing heuristic. This week my biggest struggle has been deconstructing my clarifying objectives and breaking it down into factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive targets. After reviewing the information we discussed a few weeks ago in class, I was better able to understand how to break my objectives down into these four targets! Over the next week, I will focus on these targets for my unit plan so I can completely and correctly develop the targets for my plan. I contributed to the class this week by helping create our parachutes in class on Thursday and participating in my groups discussion about which parachute we think will hit the ground first or last. To help my colleagues more next week, I will do more research about air resistance so I can effectively help my group form deeper opinions about the parachute learning experience. This week my outside research includes research for the water cycle learning experience! I found a great learning experience that will allow the students to become a water drop and go through the process of the water cycle. This will help my students to understand and relate with the material which in turn will help them to understand. I will use this in my future classroom because it is a great way that your students can relate to the material and I think this will help them to better understand the water cycle. My first tweet of this week is an infographic of how to encourage intrinsic motivation in my classroom! This is important because if I can get my students attention and have them active in the lessons, they will learn much more.

My second tweet for this week says "the energy and attitude of a caring teacher goes a long way" and there is an infographic with a "recipe" for this. This is important because I believe that students learn best from someone they know cares about them! 

My third and final tweet for this week has 25 questions to help guide project based learning planning for teachers! This is an excellent tool for us as we move forward planning project based lessons!

The current event that I've focused on this week is earthquakes and how I can better help my future classroom understand earthquakes. I found this video that animates for kids how earthquakes work and I thought it was very informational and interesting to watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpIU1rSOFY This week Jacobi, Savanna, and I completed the hyperdoc for chapter four which is about the 5E model and inquiry based learning! We incorporated infographics, videos, articles, and questions to help the rest of the class understand what the 5E model and what inquiry based learning is! I learned that as a teacher I must allow multiple opportunities for learning in my classroom with inquiry based instruction. This goes along with standard 4 which is teachers facilitate learning in their classroom. A sub standard under standard for is teachers facilitate learning by use of technology and that is what we did by creating a hyperdoc! Overall, this week was a great learning week inside and outside of class. I'm ready for my clinical placement so I can get in the classroom and really experience everything we've been talking about.