November 13th, 2008

We are now starting our second lesson plan for our science class. Today we just had a workday to plan our lesson plans. Carrie and I have decided to do our second lesson plan on birds/owls, and read the book Owl Moon. We are not teaching this lesson to the class, we are going to act as a room of teachers and present our ideas to our other colleagues.

November 7th, 2008

Today in class we did a potato activity. We were given different materials (chunks of potatoes, salt, water, and different science things). The class and I were asked to invent our own experiement and test how much salt we should put with the potato and water, and then we were to make observations on what happened within the potato activity.

October 30th, 2008

In today's class we finished presenting the midterm presentations. There was an experiment on ooblic, which we make a mixture and we are able to see the outcomes. Carrie and I did an activity on taste buds, and i felt that went very well. There were also many other presentations, they were all pretty good. There was one on tornadoes, which i thought was very good. I really liked Nate and Ashley's experiment on how birds feathers get oil on their feathers, and how hard it is for them to get it off. It doesn't come, this would be really relevant to teach to middle schoolers.