Lesson Reflection

Everyone did an awesome job presenting tonight! I know it's not easy, but we got through it! Listening to all of y'all's lessons really got my brain rolling with ideas. I think I was over thinking activities I could do, but tonight I realized it's really not as hard as I'm making it.
Tonight, I presented my lesson to the class. I did my lesson over "Flamingo Teamwork." One suggestion I had from Professor Steffes is that I can show a live feed of Flamingos from the Chicago Zoo. I think this would be a great addition to my lesson, and would really capture my student's attention. I didn't find the one from Chicago, but one from the zoo in Houston! Here is is if you would like to check out some flamingos :)
Houston Zoo Flamingos

Evaluation of a Lesson

First off, sorry this is getting posted so late! I have been out of town and busy prepping for a midterm in my other class! I also couldn't find the powerpoint in D2L with the list of requirements for a lesson. I looked at a couple of your all's blogs and Kate had a list of them! (Thanks Kate! :)  )

So... I have not started on my lesson plans yet, but have a few ideas floating around in my head. I'm a super procrastinator, something I'm trying to get better at, so I'm going to make up a lesson with an objective on the fly for this post. 

The objectives I'm grading this lesson on are: 

     □ Includes accurate information

     □ Learning objective met

     □ Appropriate to audience

     □ Interesting to age group

     □ In good condition

     □ Employs creative thinking

     □ Motivating and engaging

In one of my lessons, I am planning on doing a review over parts of a newspaper article. It will look something like this:

The objective will be:

The students will be able to label the parts of a newspaper article, using a word bank, with 95% accuracy, independently. 

Before hand, we will fill out a KWL chart about newspapers.

First Grade Class

The lesson will be us as a class talking about the parts of a newspaper. I will have pieces to tape/drag onto the poster to show where the correct placement for it is. This is kind of like a bubble chart (is that a stretch?). Hopefully I can get away with using something like this and calling it a bubble chart because it does have a center topic and bubbles coming off of it. Let me know if you think that would work.

 We have some newspaper articles around our school hanging up, and I don't think a lot of kids know how to read one, or where to find certain things. That is what this activity is centered towards. 

Overall, I think this lesson meets the criteria. It displays accurate information after we discuss as a class, I believe their learning objective will be met, it is on grade level for first graders, in good condition, and is engaging. I don't know if it employs creative thinking, though. Maybe if their assignment was to create their own newspaper front page, would it be considered creative.