Week 2 blog

Blog Week 2 Reflection

I have been teaching for a long time and have written many lesson plans.  Over the years I have designed my own template and I have to say this has been one of the hardest templates I have ever worked on.  I also forgot to include my references on my lesson plans.  Other than that I had a hard time at the beginning thinking about what I wanted my lesson plans on.  I knew it had to be STEM related, but if you look at my science book you would see it is very old.  So I had to think about developing a lesson on something I felt would fit with the STEM program.  Keep this in mind I decided to write my lesson plans on Forensic Science.  In writing the forensics science lesson I had to keep the 5 E’s in my mind and make sure to include each one.

I started off with engagement.  Keeping my classroom in mind and my topic I had to remember what keeps the students engaged.  First of all video, games, and interactive programs keep students engaged.  So I felt the best thing I needed to include was a video on forensics science would be good for the students to watch so they could get excited about what I was going to teach.  Next, I wanted to use “explore” in order to cover this aspect, I this is where I wanted the students to use something in real life to associate with.  Then we went to explain, this is where my students would be working in two groups to bring everything together.  Expand would be the fun part of the complete lesson in which the students would set up a mock trial.  The last “E” is to evaluate, which I have to keep the whole lesson in mind to make up the best evaluation.

Overall, I made to many mistakes because I was trying to hurry and I knew I should not have.  If I had taken my time I feel like I could have done a better job.  I know my overall lesson was good, but not as good as I would like for it to be.