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.