Lesson Plan #2
Today
is going to be our first real day in a sense because the other cohort is
finally done, the other cohorts were working on doing Google earth and it was
unsuccessful because the computers at the school will not allow them to use the
program without a password. Then they tried to teach them PowerPoint and it was
unsuccessful because they were too easily bored. Since today is Halloween we decided
that we are going to teach them how to search from Google and they are
going to look up pictures of what they are going to be dressed at tonight. Copy
and paste the image into a Microsoft Word document, and then write a caption
about their costume. Then they will share them with us as a group. Like a show
and tell of what they are going to be for Halloween tonight. If for some reason
that fails we have a backup bingo plan using math and the PDF file with the
questions and answers on a sheet. If they are feeling like they want to not
play bingo then we will draw and color. We have a feeling they are going to be
juiced on sugar today and be very difficult to handle hopefully that will not
play a part with how much time we get today, If they are misbehaving we
generally get them a little late, but I understand the need to calm them down
to come to tech club.
Observation:
Unfortunately, we got the kindergartners and 1st graders which was kind of unexpected because the first cohort said they never got the kindergartners so we didn't prepare a lesson plan for kids that young. Unfortunately that is part of the after school program at Whitter we are going to get older and younger kids, I think the solution might be writing a lesson plan each week for the 3rd through 5th grade and K through 2nd grade that way Tressa and I can both do a lesson plan for each and we can use them accordingly.
As for how the day went after that little hiccup, it was a hard day for them they were all getting excited for Halloween and had been hopped up on sugar the whole day resulting in very non attentive kids at the tech program. We had success with certain kids one-on-one, because our lesson plan was incapable of audible directions the one-on-one path worked. However it was hard to get around to each kid. They all needed help with the URL's. We ended up playing educational math games for the majority of the time while we went around helping the kids one-on-one. We asked Michael next time to allows us to have an older age group because they are simply easier to work with, but we are going to write lesson plans for each age group appropriately.
Observation:
Unfortunately, we got the kindergartners and 1st graders which was kind of unexpected because the first cohort said they never got the kindergartners so we didn't prepare a lesson plan for kids that young. Unfortunately that is part of the after school program at Whitter we are going to get older and younger kids, I think the solution might be writing a lesson plan each week for the 3rd through 5th grade and K through 2nd grade that way Tressa and I can both do a lesson plan for each and we can use them accordingly.
As for how the day went after that little hiccup, it was a hard day for them they were all getting excited for Halloween and had been hopped up on sugar the whole day resulting in very non attentive kids at the tech program. We had success with certain kids one-on-one, because our lesson plan was incapable of audible directions the one-on-one path worked. However it was hard to get around to each kid. They all needed help with the URL's. We ended up playing educational math games for the majority of the time while we went around helping the kids one-on-one. We asked Michael next time to allows us to have an older age group because they are simply easier to work with, but we are going to write lesson plans for each age group appropriately.
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