Dec 6

Wednesday, December 6th was my last clinical experience day in Mr. Bortons classrom. I taught most of first and second hour except a small portion of the lecture on the Doppler Effect. The lesson was about properties of sound, intensity and pitch. Much of the lesson was lecture based with the students taking notes, and I used part of the lecture for my second SATIC analysis. I also included a class lab. We talked about how bats, owls and people hear. For the lab I had a blind-folded student sit in the center of the room while six other students spread out behind and to each side of the edge of the room around the student. I then pointed at each student around the room and had them make a noise and we watched as the blindfolded student pointed at where she thought the sound was coming from. She did pretty well the first time but was sometimes slightly off. I then had the blindfolded student plug her right ear with an earplug and had the students shuffle around to other spots and tried it again. This time she was way off on pointing to where some of the noises were coming from, especially when they came from the side of her plugged ear. I explained how when we hear the sound is more intense at the ear which it reaches first and the brain can determine this tiny difference in sounds between ears to tell where the sound is coming from. After this we dicussed pitch. The demonstration for second hour worked even better than first hour and we had a good time with the lesson. I felt confident and relaxed and am excited to move on but at the same time wish it wasn't over.