Group 3 Teaching Time! 🧛🔮🕷️

Hello everyone welcome back to Future Scientists At Play!

Group 3 presented on 10-26-21 and 10-28-21. The focus of their lessons were kinetic and potential energy. 

For group 3's first lesson, the teachers introduced themselves and explained the class rules and expectations, and they then transitioned into a video about rollercoasters and focused on the highest point of one. (remember group 2 spoke about rollercoasters too, nice to see that correlation between lessons) They prompted the students with the question “why do you think the hill of the rollercoaster is always the highest” and the students used Padlet to answer the question. Students learned the difference between kinetic and potential energy,  kinetic is moving energy and potential is stored energy. The students then participated in an activity where a teacher gave examples of both uses of kinetic and potential energy, and they had the students hold up a “p” in sign language for potential energy and a “k” in sign language for kinetic energy. I thought this was an amazing activity, and it probably introduced the students to something new which I love! At the end of the lesson, students had a chance to play a Quizzizz game to use the knowledge they learned to be the winner in the game. 

On the second day of their lesson group 3, showed a clip of a chain reaction with dominos and had the students use prior knowledge to identify what it is that they were watching. (it was a chain reaction) The teachers asked a question about what concept they could relate to the video they just watched using Padlet. After the teachers, asked the question “What does energy transfer mean?” and asked the students to give examples. Then they transitioned by having the students create their own Jack O’Lanterns and gave students an opportunity to share their work with the class. They also played a game using booklet.com, which the students seemed to really enjoy I wish I could have seen what they were playing. The independent practice teachers provided a Google Slides with questions so that they could write their answers on the slides. The assignment reviewed what was covered in class and the completed assignment will help the teacher see if the students mastered the objective. 

I really enjoyed group 3's lessons. They used a different resource which was Padelt and I really loved the way it worked better than Jambaord. It was easier for the students to use and made everything flow more smoothly. I can't wait until my team finally gets to go, one more team up and we can  finally go!