Week 6 was another uneventful week for Team SAS. We were unable to meet with Tobias this week due to time restraints. However, each of us picked the standards that we will be writing our lessons on, and are currently working on them. According to the calendar of deliverables that was made up for this project, we should be handing in the first lesson by Saturday via our folder on Google Drive.
The lessons I will be creating will be dealing with renewable energy. I have not had much time to brainstorm a complete list of ideas on what to do with these lessons due to the insane amount of homework and tests I have this week, but I will getting to it later in the week after everything slows down. Katie, Gabby, and I hope to have a conference call the week after spring break to discuss our progress with everything, so more updates are to come for the next blog post.
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This week, Team SAS met up with Tobias, along with a grad student from NJIT, in the cove on campus. We explained to this other student, Eric, our project and what we were planning to do with it. Eric works with technology, and he explained to us that he will be taking our project, which was the lesson plans, and going beyond it with an app that teachers, students, and parents can use to learn about agriculture and other environmental topics. Katie, Gabby, and I will be creating lesson plans that include the five pillars of Newark SAS, that any teacher in any school can use, while Eric will be creating this app that is optional for schools and districts that can afford the use of computers or can assume that each child has access to an internet device at home. Together we decided that it will be up to the teacher's discretion on how they want to use this app.
In addition to forming a more solid plan, we came up with NJ State Standards that we can use to write these lesson plans. We will be creating two lesson plans per grade, with two grades, which will give us a total of 12 lessons between us. We set up a calendar with dates to complete each lesson plan by, so that we can keep track of what we are doing. I am excited for this project, and I can't wait to see where it takes us. This past week was not very eventful in terms of our project. Monday night, Gabby, Katie, and I participated in a conference call with Bido. We discussed the file on Google Drive, and how it would be utilized for all of us as we work on the lesson plans. After each phone conference, Bido types up a document with a recap so that we all know what went on during them. This file will also contain a calendar so that we can all easily view the dates for when we want the lesson plans to be finished by.
Overall, we decided that each of us will tackle two lesson plans, as there are six altogether. Between work for other classes, our field placements, and other commitments we all have, it will be better if we split the work in a way that we can all complete it at our own pace. The three of us plan to meet sometime this week or early next week to discuss due dates and who will be taking which lessons. Hopefully the blog post for next week will be more informative and exciting! This past weekend, Team SAS had a conference call with Jacquleen Bido and Tobias about the plan for our workbook. We collectively decided that because the three of us are all elementary education majors with the most experience in K-5 classrooms, we will focus the workbook on K-5, instead of K-12. We also figured that because we are also students with work for 4-5 other classes, doing a workbook for every grade would be too much and would interfere with them. We then narrowed the project down even further, so that the final project will be a third and fifth grade mini unit that aligns with both the NJ State Standards, and the five pillars of Newark Science and Sustainability.
To make sure the entire project is organized, we have made a collection of files on Google Drive, and we will place everything that can help us for the project in that collection. So far, we have included the recap from our meeting on Saturday, and a folder where we will post the template for the Seton Hall lesson plan. Bido does not live in NJ and is not familiar with our version of a lesson plan, so we will be posting it in there for her reference. We will also be including information on the five pillars of Newark SAS, so we can have those for reference as well. The next steps in our project are for Katie, Gabby, and I to work with Tobias and Bido to find a day and time where we can have a conference call to discuss the progress of our project. I am so excited for this to officially kick off, and I look forward to finishing the final workbook. |
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