My Lesson Plans

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Video Response

I got a lot of the brown bear video. I loved how a kindergarten teacher was able to use technology in her classroom. I would think it would be difficult to have such young students use technology but she made it seem so easy. The thing I was most impressed with, was the fact that she said her english language students loved using the computer too! I am currently working with several ELL students and they also love technology. Sometimes when they don't understand a concept at all we will show them a YouTube video in spanish that explains the concepts and that helps so much. Also, they can figure out computers which makes them feel successful. That was aspect of technology that I have never really thought about before. I see technology used so often and it always makes the students more excited and the lesson a little more exciting!

1st week in the Practicum

My first day we saw how much technology was available in the schools. I was really impressed that every class in the school has a smart board. These are so nice to have in the classroom it lets every student participate and every student can always see what's on the board. In my classroom they have 3 Macs and my teacher has a laptop. Also, in the school they have 4 mobile labs that have 2o Mac laptops each. My teacher takes advantage of these every friday. She gives her students tests on them. The students love it because they get to use the laptops it makes test taking more enjoyable. Also, the school has 2 classrooms that are technology based the student to computer ratio is 2-1. We have a lot of technology and the teachers use it very affectively. I have also finished everything for this week!

Reaction to Science Project

For the science projects I watched Ethan's, Tara's, and Katherine's project. Everyone did such a wonderful job. Each person used a different tool so I thought that was cool to see how you could use them. I'm in a third grade classroom and they are learning about the moon and the stars and how they rotate so Ethans would be perfect to show my students. I enjoyed Tara's it would be really good for younger students, because it's easy to use, and younger students love animals. Katherines was just cool! I thought the whole time that this would have been a perfect science project in Elementary School. It was interesting to see the PH levels of all those household items. I liked this project, it was good to see all the tools you can use for science. Science is a difficult subject to teach so its great that their are tools to help you!