10/25

On Wednesday I taught first hour a lesson on careers in science. I had a fun time with the lesson. We started by talking about halloween and then moved into a KWL session on tarantulas. I got so wrapped up in it that I forgot to give the students instruction or time to do the W part of it, but was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that many of the students did it on their own. I then put my caving flashlight on my head and pretended that I was an arachnologist while having one of the students interview me. As we went through the interview (which I pulled off cool careers on the pbs website) the students filled in as much as they could of the L part of the chart about tarantulas. I found it challenging to try and respond to all of the students in a meaningful way - though I definitely tried. To end I talked about how the kids could do anything they were interested in if they pursued it and told the kids about my experiences with tracking elk and black-footed ferrets. My hope is that I could tie all of my thoughts together for them in a meaningful way while making it interesting. Sometimes I worry about this because I tie things together in my mind but wonder if how I teach will tie together concepts and ideas in a similar way in the minds of my students.