Allie's Journey in the World of Science

Group 1 did such a great job delivering their direct instruction. Even being the first group, I was very impressed! Their topic was to teach about the earth cycles, which was great to start out with. Students should be familiar with the earth's cycles before anything else! Group 1 was teaching  The students are going to be taught about the rotation of the earth, the axis, gravity, constellations, eclipse, ellipse, and stars. As the teacher taught the lesson, they asked questions to see what the students knew and remembered from what they were just taught. For their guided practice, students worked together to create sentence strips that helped them figure out the missing word based on what they were taught during the lesson. This was a great way for the students to collaborate ideas and discuss what word should fit into the blank. I do wish that the students Broughup their sentence strips and displayed it on the board for the whole class to see. Otherwise, I really liked this! the

Our first day of fieldwork For Science and Technology Methods was definitely quite the experience. I was so nervous and excited to meet the 4th graders. It turns out, I knew more than half of them from previous fieldwork experiences! For the first day, we did a very different ice breaker activity. Each fieldwork group has their own get to know you activity, and the children rotated to each group. I really liked the way this turned out. It was nice to meet the children in small groups, and get to know them personally. My group did a board game called "Saturn's Spectacular Science Showdown." It included 4 different topics. If the student spun and landed on a pink square, they had to answer a question about themselves. If the students landed on a Blue triangle, they had to complete a seven second challenge while answering a science questions. If the student lands on an orange circle, they are to answer a science question. Finally, the question mark allows the student to ask

On Saturday, September 30th, I attended a workshop called Project WET and Project Aquatic Wild. I really enjoyed it! Randy, the facilitator from The Department of Environmental Conservation in Albany gave us so many great resources to use in our future classrooms. We started out with an icebreaker activity. I really liked the activity, because it made us think, but we also met people as we did it. Randy gave us cards with a species on it, and we had to find either the adult or baby version of that species. For example, I had a butterfly. My job was to find the caterpillar, because that is the baby version of the butterfly. this was a great way to pre-assess, and also as a great icebreaker. Another activity that we did was designing our own fish by rolling the dice! This activity was so fun. we rolled the dice to find out what mouth to put, the coloration, the tail shape, body shape, and the type of reproduction for our fish. this was fun to see all the different kids of fish we all cre