Lessons

Lesson planning I have come to like pretty well, which is good since I plan on being a teacher. I think they will help keep me focused and organized, as well as be able to know what standards I am wanting to cover. As a future teacher, we have been required to make some of our own. In preparing for this lesson plan for this technology class I found it to be pretty useful. We prepared our activities prior to the actual lesson planning and I found that to be easier than the way I have been doing it. Usually, I come up with the idea and form an activity around it. I liked creating the activity first I think it made the actual lesson plan go quicker. From now on I think I will try to do that instead. I felt like I could complete it easier because I already knew what activity I wanted to do for the lesson.

As part of integrating technology the activity involved doing research on the internet based on the Rockstar activity we did making a sort of WebQuest project. I think that using these in my class will be a great way to implement technology. I think my students will be able to get somewhat more of an intimate knowledge of the material I am covering if they have to look some of it up on their own. Also, by doing this there are other resources they can look at such as images, video, and audio by actual people during different time periods. As a history teacher, I believe getting some primary sources in the lesson or other perspectives of an event are extremely important. Plus these different kinds of media can also reinforce what I have taught, am teaching, or will teach. I really look forward to doing lessons such as this one that I have prepared for! I think the students will enjoy these activities as well by getting to find material on their own, with of course some guidance by me. These web-related activities will also help me teach them how they too can properly evaluate websites on their own for future use. Therefore, they will be able to be more self-sufficient in doing research projects, which almost every student will have to do at some point in their education.