Something that did go well during my lesson was the excitement and interest of the activity. Both students wear eager to dig out as many fossils as possible and race each other to see who could find the most. Something that did not go well during my lesson was students staying on task while using the cameras to document their excavation. They wanted to take funny pictures or selfies instead of pictures of their fossil cookies. Mostly everything went according to plan. The objectives and standards aligned nicely and went as expected. The only modifications made were that the students did not write out the answers to the questions I had originally wanted them to fill out, instead they just discussed them together while doing the activity.
Mechanics:
The technologies I used were the cameras and the computer. I used the computer for the video at the beginning of the lesson. The students used the cameras for their documentation of the excavation and then we used the computer again to look at the journey from the pictures. As mentioned before, the students did not follow precise directions about only using the cameras for educational purposes. My lesson was a little short because it was intended for three people but one person was absent which made things go by faster.
Assessment of Learning (InTask Standard # 6):
My pre-assessment was the students filling out a KWL chart. My formative assessment was the students taking pictures and using their paleontologists tools correctly. My summative assessment was them answering the questions I provided for them. Their level of success was of course hard to calculate because my "students" already knew the information I was teaching them, but I think my actual third graders would have met the standards appropriately and I could have seen that based on my effective assessments. The reflections from my peers were very helpful. They let me know that I did a good job of keeping them on task and the lesson content was engaging and interesting. Their ideas of making my lesson better was to extract fossils from other food items other than just cookies.
KWL Chart
What did you learn from designing and teaching this lesson and how will you use this in the creation of future lessons/learning activities.
I learned that there are many components to make up a lesson. If you find a lesson online or hear about it from someone else, you still have to change it for how it will work best for you. When teaching the lesson you should think about possible problems that may arise so you can have solutions for them before they even occur. Hopefully I will not be making many other lessons in the future since I will not be a teacher anymore :)
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