Teaching a Science Lesson!

Today was a great day for me and my group. We presented our  5e lesson plan to Bishop Dunn Memorial School’s fifth graders and it went great! I was originally very worried because we had to share the 50 minute time slot with another group, giving each group little less than a half hour to conduct their lesson. Well we were the second group to perform, and the group before ran over the time they were given. Once the group before us had finished we technically had only 5 minutes to present our lesson (that can’t happen). We knew we were crunched for time, so we just started off the lesson as quick as we could. We couldn’t really do a quick warm-up activity with them as we had planned, so we just explained the assignment to them really quickly then split them up into groups. My group, since we were the last to present, decided to put together a culminating activity for the students to participate in as a way to present their knowledge of the chapter. We created four stations at which each group of students had a different assignment. There was a song/rap table in which the students could create their own chemical change rap, or sing along with one that we found online. Another group had to create a short skit about their favorite part of the chapter. Then there was one group that was giving a piece of oak tag with the letters that spelt out Chemical Change, in which they were to make an acrostic poem out of. And lastly there was a group that was assigned to draw and create a collage of all the important ideas that they learned from the chapter and put them onto a piece of oak tag. We gave the students approximately 10 minutes (probably less) to work on these projects. Myself and my co-teachers walked about from station to station to monitor the students progress and help out when needed. Each group of students was having a great time creating their masterpieces. At the end of the ‘creating’ phase we asked the students to come up and present their work and why they chose to do what they did. I felt that this lesson went splendidly, and if there was one thing I would change it would be to get a bit more time to actually engage the students instead of just throwing them into the assignment. However, given the circumstances I feel really proud of our lesson and of all the work the students were able to accomplish, presenting their understanding of the material in a variety of different ways.