Last Night of Class 12-13-17 Post #15

In class, I missed some of what was said regarding "Magic Wands"; because my internet kicked me out of class. I went back and listened to the recorded class portion I missed. Professor Steffes gave us some information, regarding our magic wands (our anticipatory sets), on what they should be based on. The anticipatory set should be relevant and content based, have a clear bridge or connect, reappear during lesson, acclimate prior learning, and be a way to share your objective. Some creative ideas to make an anticipatory set are through Art, a question, video clips, quotes, card match, #tweet, or meme.

For Example: Lesson- 4th Grade Social Studies Immigration to Ellis Island

ART- Immigrants eat rotten meat and stewed prunes in Ellis Island dinning hall

Question based on picture- Would you feel very welcomed or accepted; being over crowded and served rotten meat and stewed prunes?

Video Clip- Series of 3 videos could be played over three days

Quote-

Picture Match- Students get a country they immigrated from; they go around the room and collect the cards that go with their country, for example job, place to live, education.

 

# Tweet response to picture-

(Mine- #littlebrothers )

I hope you enjoyed seeing these examples and I enjoyed seeing all of the creative wands people came up with.

Lesson Plan Presentations 12-6-17

Devyn Crabtree was our first presenter and did her lesson on 2nd grade synonyms and antonyms. Her first lesson was introducing synonyms. I thought she had a good anticipatory set; where she used Kahoot for a pre assessment. She had a good objective; although, I felt like I was missing the condition within it. I liked the idea of using a synonyms video, students love videos. Devyn's tree map was neat for the use of modeling to the students.Their independent practice of completing their own tree map is a good idea; so they can be exposed to different types of thinking maps. I really liked her closure as well; the use of the snow storm.
Her second lesson plan had a good objective. The anticipatory set was good too and was something the students could do by their selves. She also had a good remediation strategy. However, I had a slight concern with the closure activity. Parent Hotline seems like a neat idea all together, but some families can't afford internet and wouldn't be able to access their child's homework. Otherwise the lessons overall were very good. Thank you for presenting.

The next presenter was Karen Bond and her lesson was for 6th grade Science. It was based on the Periodic Table and is gauged to be about an 1 hour long. In her first lesson plan; I felt like she was very thorough in her instructional overview. I learned more about the periodic table and elements just through her overview. She also had a good use of Bloom's Taxonomy and the "Meet The Elements" idea for her anticipatory set. However, on the objective I though the condition and the degree may be missing. The guided practice portion was a neat idea to have them fill out the chart and I liked that there was discussion time. Though I think they might have to have some help filling out the chart; but that is why this is good to do during guided practice time. Her ideas for checking understanding were good, as well as the worksheet for independent practice. I did notice that on this lesson plan the closure needed a little work. I found this example of a closure activity for the periodic table: Fun Brain Website  I hope this helps some.
On Karen's lesson 2 the students were creating a periodic table. I like the idea a lot though on her objective; I feel like there is a lot of objectives and still feel like it was missing the condition and degree. She had a great vocabulary list of words and good use of Bloom's Taxonomy on this one too. I loved the idea of the anticipatory set she used; with the large bags of bottle caps for them to sort. I did feel like the guided practice was more like independent practice; with filling out the blank periodic table. I had thought that guided practice was something done with the teacher guiding the students through the activity. The paragraph is a good idea for the independent practice portion. I did really like the closure activity involving the use of colors to classify the elements. I also liked how she has them presenting and explaining how or why they classified the mystery elements. Overall, her lessons were very detailed with unique activity ideas and good lesson plans. Thank you for presenting your lesson plans.

Rachel Scott was the next to present and her lesson was on 1st grade Language Arts. It is estimated at a time of 30 minutes. The students would be doing a research paper. Her worksheet she had lined up for them to fill out was a neat idea. I liked her anticipatory set activity of dragging the true/false statements through the ven diagram. The idea of note taking practice for 1st graders is interesting. I like the idea in general; but I don't know how well this would work for 1st graders. It is good practice either way though. The site Rachel used is a cute website, very useful. The use of the KWL chart for independent practice is a good idea too. The high five closure was also a neat idea.
In Rachel's second lesson plan they read the book "Owl Moon" on a discovery education website. I thought this was a good idea too and like reading books to the students, as well. I did notice that I didn't catch the modeling practice for this lesson plan. Her independent practice was the same for both lessons. I really liked her use of Paper Slide for a closure activity and them drawing habitats for owls. This was a neat and different idea. However, the lesson could be enriched and closure at the same time if the students did Paper Slide; but drew a habitat for a different animal. Overall this was a very neat lesson plan and some of the things used were unique within her lesson plan. Thank you for doing your presentation.

Lesson Plan Presentations 11-29-17

In class we heard Devin Shrum's lesson plan presentation. His first lesson was for History and the Unit was on the Civil War. I thought that he had a good use of Bloom's Taxonomy. I also thought he had a good objective; although it seemed like a lot of objective for one lesson. I thought his time allowed for the preassessment was good. For an anticipatory set I thought he might be able to use a meme maybe something like this:

I liked how he had the students working in groups of 2 and was giving them information to prepare them to know information that was going to be on their test. I thought the use of a power point was a good idea to maintain student engagement. I liked that he had discussion time as well. I thought that the checking for understanding portion might need to be based on an independent activity that can be assessed based on the individual students performance. Devin showed good modeling, guided practice activities, and closure. 

Devin's lesson two was also based on History. Again, he showed a good use of Bloom's Taxonomy. His anticipatory set he used was a poll. I thought that was an alright idea, but could maybe include a picture to go with the poll. I liked the Snow Storm idea he had for checking for understanding. However, I was just wandering how you would check for understanding with each student individually; if you are playing snow storm? I think sequencing cards are a good idea to have the students fill out during guided practice. I thought he had good remediation in using prefilled sequencing cards. The "Inside Out" activity was also very interesting. The enrichment, I thought was just a little out there. I don't know about everyone being able to find out their family history though. I liked a lot of these ideas in Devin's presentation they were very original. Thank you for presenting Devin.