October 23, 2008

Today we just observed different kinds of lesson plans from our Colleagues. The first group did a presentation on Mixtures. They first asked a couple of assessment questions, to activate our back ground knowledge about mixtures. For example, what is a mixture and from the four which one is not a mixture. We also had to name our own mixtures. The group also had us make a jello mixture and observe what happened and what was going to happen. The second group did an activity on habitats and explained how we can make habitat boxes with our students, along with the different safety measures. Angie and Kelli did an experiment on teaching students the differences between sinking and floating. We also make predictions and created our own hypothesis's. Brooke and Megan did an experiment with mixing oil and water together. Do you they mix together. No, they don't and if you add a couple drops of food coloring you will see that the water and oil are still separated, but the food coloring goes straight to the water part of the mixture. Whitney and Danielle did their presentation for Kindergarteners on living and non living things. They had us look through different magazines and make a collage of the different things that are livign and which are not living. All of these activites will great to use in our future classroom, especially in our science labs.