This week was slightly more interesting than last week, because of a school field trip and taking Ashleigh around the museum.
For the school trip, Ashleigh and I traveled to Stephen Foster Elementary to teach two classes of third and fourth graders about the Fossil Hall at FLMNH. They visited there a few weeks ago, but we got to give them a post-lesson, teaching them about measuring animals and so much more! The feedback was the worst out of all of our visits, which may be attributed to the gap between the visit to the museum and the classroom visit. Also, the second teacher held the teaching ideal that "if you yell it, they will respond." Unfortunately, no such luck on her part. Other than the kids walking around the classroom randomly, the lesson went well, and they were very interested in the otter (dead and stuffed, just to be clear) that we brought and seemed to retain a lot of information they learned. That was the last classroom visit that we have to do this summer, so whoot whoot!
Then, today Dr. Ellis and I took Ashleigh around the museum to see all of the exciting things and meet exciting people. We did have the pleasure of seeing Deanna (spreading her joy), Beth, Brooke, and Callum in the classroom, so that was cool. Then we saw Deanna on her way off work, and just a word of advice, don't get between her and the door! (Just kidding, Deanna, but not really). We got to introduce Ashleigh to the Dian(n)e's (see picture below), Darci, and Betty, as well as walk around the entire museum so that was a nice change of scenery.
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Some good news is that we will probably be visiting the Megalodon traveling exhibit in Jacksonville sometime next week (road trip!) so I'll be sure to post lots of pics about it!
Until next time!
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
Your post made me laugh because your class sounds like the class I was teaching in the spring for Step 1/2. My mentor teacher had the same philosophy and the kids walked around the room randomly, especially when they wanted to ask or answer a question! It was really bizarre, but apparently I guess that's the thing nowadays... I too will be going to Jacksonville next week o visit the planetarium and the science museum over there. I am so excited to see how they do things differently, and to possibly take away some new ideas!
ReplyDeleteYour description of the class we taught in could not be more accurate! That's so funny, those kids were adorable and fun but oh man definitely ready for summer. And positive note, now we know how to not manage our own classrooms, so there is a bright side! And the tour was so fun, finally getting to put faces to names that I hear all the time. And I got my key WOOOOOO, Can't wait for our trip to JAX. Thank goodness it wasn't today because getting out of bed this morning was rougghhhhh.
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