Week 9

The past few weeks we haven't been blogging, which is very nice as we were busy completing other projects and assignments. This week, I have been finishing up my science through my lens, writing my learning segment for math, and beginning FALL BREAK! I was most proud of my pictures in my science through my lens project, I think they are beautiful and really show scientific phenomena in the nature around us. My biggest struggle was creating questions to fit with each level of blooms but Mallory sent a link out to help us all with these questions so I overcame that obstacle. Over the next week, I hope to be able to observe and meet my CE and her class. I am place in a fifth grade classroom and I am very nervous about teaching 5th graders because I have always wanted younger grades but I will use this as a learning experience and teach them to the best of my ability and who knows, I may end up liking it more than I think. I contributed to the class this week by being involved in our edTPA discussion in science methods on Tuesday. Next week, I will contribute by doing more research about edTPA in order to successfully help myself and my classmates understand it more. For my outside learning and research, I continued looking for science education resources and classroom management strategies. Here are some I found: http://blog.iat.com/2015/08/13/stem-for-elementary-school-students-how-to-instill-a-lifelong-love-of-science/ and    https://www.edutopia.org/blog/new-teachers-how-develop-look-rebecca-alber
The first resource is about how to use STEM in your classroom and how to teach your students to love science. The second resource is about how to develop "the look" which is a great classroom management resource, especially in upper grades! For my first tweet of the week, I retweeted this from edutopia. This is a card you can give to your students so they can circle which emotion they feel after you teach your lesson. This is great so you can effectively understand the student's feelings about a lesson.

My next tweet of the week is from mindshift and its an infographic that explains what a teacher does on a day to day basis for her students and for herself.

My third and final tweet for the week is from Amy Fast and it simply says "Leaders need to be led too."  I think this is crucial for a teacher because although we are leaders to our students, we must be led too. 

The current event I found most interesting is about a 54 million year old baby turtle fossil and the scientists found dark pigments that would protect the turtle from the sun's harmful rays!

https://www.livescience.com/60731-fossil-baby-turtle-sunscreen.html

Now, I will refer to the three hyperdocs we have not blogged about yet. Chapter 6's hyperdoc is about how to plan and manage inquiry instruction. In this chapter, we learn that we should use an "engage" lesson just like the 5E model shows us. Engaging our students by creating a hook will allow for your classroom to become a scientific learning environment. Another tip to help with this is that we as teachers should engage our students by using inquiry which is a question that can be solved through investigation. During chapter 6 as well we learn several different classroom management strategies to use in a scientific learning environment. Chapter 7's hyperdoc is about how to question your students effectively. This is a very informative presentation and there are multiple resources on ways to form questions for your students so that way they can learn through scientific inquiry. I enjoyed the article about wait time and how long you should wait before interrupting the students thoughts about a question. The slide about questions and the 5E model is very helpful when trying to write a 5E lesson with scientific inquiry questions embedded into it. Lastly, Chapter 8's hyperdoc is about how to integrate technology successfully in a classroom. At the beginning, there is a video that talks about some new technology that you can use in the classroom such as 3d printing, holograms, virtual reality, the cloud, and biometrics. It goes on to talk about why we should be using technology in our classrooms and the answer is quite simple: it is fun and engaging for the students. I will be taking the resources from all three hyperdocs so that I can successfully have classroom management strategies in a scientific environment, question my students effectively, and how to integrate technology in my classroom.