The first day of teaching definitely didn't go as smoothly as the second, for two main reasons: one, my team and I didn't have a totally solid plan on what we were going to do, and two, the trash timeline wasn't totally explained in the best possible way.
So the plan my team had drawn up definitely had too much extra time floating around, so we were a little disorganized with that, but by the third rotation, we'd managed to figure out a pretty solid routine, with a few minor flaws that were eliminated on the second day of teaching. The trash timeline wasn't totally explained in the best possible way to the kids from rotation 1, but the rest of the day we managed to go through it in a better way that helped the kids realize that although things can decompose in a few hundred years, that does not mean you should throw plastic bags in the family compost bin (We tried to explain this to group one of the rotation, but we ran out of time).
The second day was essentially a better version of the first. We weren't too scattered on time and ended around the same time every time, and the kids overall had a better understanding of the information taught. Our lesson was full of interactive activities with a few breaks in between to review some materials. The 4th graders seemed to be interested in what we were teaching them and definitely learned something by the end of the lesson. They seemed to thoroughly enjoy the trash timeline and searching through compost.
Day 1: We definitely modified the plan a bit, and it went something like this - Intro, name game, "all about compost," scavenger hunt, and trash timeline
Day 2: Same as day one, but we had time left over because it was all pretty synchronized so we played a "what did you learn" game.
So the plan my team had drawn up definitely had too much extra time floating around, so we were a little disorganized with that, but by the third rotation, we'd managed to figure out a pretty solid routine, with a few minor flaws that were eliminated on the second day of teaching. The trash timeline wasn't totally explained in the best possible way to the kids from rotation 1, but the rest of the day we managed to go through it in a better way that helped the kids realize that although things can decompose in a few hundred years, that does not mean you should throw plastic bags in the family compost bin (We tried to explain this to group one of the rotation, but we ran out of time).
The second day was essentially a better version of the first. We weren't too scattered on time and ended around the same time every time, and the kids overall had a better understanding of the information taught. Our lesson was full of interactive activities with a few breaks in between to review some materials. The 4th graders seemed to be interested in what we were teaching them and definitely learned something by the end of the lesson. They seemed to thoroughly enjoy the trash timeline and searching through compost.
Day 1: We definitely modified the plan a bit, and it went something like this - Intro, name game, "all about compost," scavenger hunt, and trash timeline
Day 2: Same as day one, but we had time left over because it was all pretty synchronized so we played a "what did you learn" game.
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