Group 5 Teaching Time Finally 🔥☀️

Welcome back everyone!

I have exciting news! My group, group 5 finally got the opportunity to present our first lesson on Tuesday November 9th. For our first lesson, we decided to create a Nearpod because we felt this would keep all the students focused and engaged with us. Our first lesson was about heat energy and energy transfer. Then we went over our class rules and virtual expectations and also our attention grabber, which was "here's a rhyme" and they say "it's learning time".

The first activity we had for the students was a draw it activity. We asked them to draw what they thought were examples of heat energy and energy transfer. We shared what the students were drawing with the rest of our colleagues by the power of screen sharing. We had them explain what they drew afterwards and why, and then we shared with them the definitions of heat energy and energy transfer. The students then watched a video about energy transfer, and we had the students observe examples of energy while watching the video and then we had a discussion about what they saw. After this, we transitioned to our brain break which allows us to all relax our brains for a bit after learning so much. We then watched a Mystery Science video that explained how technology and heat has improved the ways of energy transfer and had a discussion again. Then we had our energy transfer and heat energy simulation, and had a collaborative board for the students to write about how they made the simulation work or what they though of the simulation.

For our independent practice, we had the students create their own heat spinners and to share with us on Flipgrid. I made a tutorial for the students to follow along with and showed it during class in case students had any questions before they went home to create their own heat spinners. I have inserted the video below for you all to watch! The last thing we did was show the students a video that high schoolers created  which related back to group 1's Rube Goldberg activity.

Thank you everyone for reading. I believe my group and I did a really good job despite some hiccups. I can't wait until our second lesson this has been such a great experience!