Field Day 7

Today in placement instead of my CT doing a lesson, my other classmates and I who are apart of the same activity sequence did our science talk with the class that we will be teaching our lessons to in March. Each of our lessons incorporates plants, so we asked t he students what they knew about plants. We told them that there were no right or wrong answers, and that we just wanted to discuss what they knew about plants. The students were fairly talkative in the discussion, and had some good ideas. After the discussion, we passed out plain paper and the students drew a picture of what they thought the life cycle of a plant was.
During the discussion we heard many words such as “roots, dirt, leaves, flowers, trees, water and sun.” Some of the students knew that a plant grows from a seed. So the students had some ideas that were very close to what we will be teaching. However, there were also many misconceptions such as that trees are not plants, and that you give apple trees apple juice to grow. Overall, I thought it was a good discussion that will help guide us when writing our full lesson plans and when teaching our lessons to the class. There were a variety of pictures drawn, ranging from single pictures of flowers, to pictures labeled with number “1,” “2,” “3” with first a picture of a seed, and then a picture of a plant progressively growing.
My CT did not teach a science lesson today because we did this instead, and I did not get a chance to discuss with her what else they are doing for science this week. There is no class the Tuesday after Spring break at my placement. I might go into the classroom one day over Spring break because I will be in the area, but if not the next time I am in my placement is when I teach my lesson!