This week I had the pleasure of teaching a spooky Halloween theme science lesson on states of matter. I started the lesson with a dry ice experiment that went over very well with the students. The experiment was was followed by a PowerPoint presentation and a collaboration activity. I was still a bit nervous for this lesson but not as nervous as the first. I think that a bit of nerves are a good thing in order to perform well in a lesson, but the trick is not to let the nerves over come you and I'm still learning how to make sure that doesn't happen. The flow that this lesson had was good, I think that the transitions were seamless, even when I was writing the lesson I could tell that everything went together very well. To see the written plan executed in the classroom is always something that amazes me especially when the lesson goes over well and it did with particular lesson.
One of the things that I like the best about my lesson plan this week was that instead of an independent practice, I had the student do a collaboration activity. I enjoyed seeing the students work together in a group and having conversations about why they classified items as either a solid liquid or a gas. I feel that not only were they learning from the lesson that was presented to them, but they were also learning from one another. I believe that this was the first time that I have done a collaboration activity, it will definitely be something that I will do again. Another thing that I did that was new for me was a Kahoot! review. My students LOVED the Kahoot!. They were begging at the end to play it again. I love it when the students get excited about learning and while they were playing a game they were still learning the concept of solids, liquids and gas.
At the end of the day I passed out Halloween candy bags that I made for each student and thanked them for being so great during my lesson.
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